Energy and Buildings

Article	Citations
Fault detection and diagnosis of large-scale HVAC systems in buildings using data-driven methods: A comprehensive review	238
Assessment of the renewable energy generation towards net-zero energy buildings: A review	199
Enhanced thermophysical properties of organic PCM through shape stabilization for thermal energy storage in buildings: A state of the art review	182
A critical review on phase change materials (PCM) for sustainable and energy efficient building: Design, characteristic, performance and application	181
Review of technological design options for building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV)	178
Designing the design of experiments (DOE) – An investigation on the influence of different factorial designs on the characterization of complex systems	145
Review of urban building energy modeling (UBEM) approaches, methods and tools using qualitative and quantitative analysis	133
Optimizing PCM-integrated walls for potential energy savings in U.S. Buildings	125
Inorganic phase change materials in thermal energy storage: A review on perspectives and technological advances in building applications	118
Hourly energy consumption prediction of an office building based on ensemble learning and energy consumption pattern classification	117
Will the urbanization process influence the peak of carbon emissions in the building sector? A dynamic scenario simulation	116
A Digital Twin predictive maintenance framework of air handling units based on automatic fault detection and diagnostics	115
Review on occupant-centric thermal comfort sensing, predicting, and controlling	114
Multi-objective optimization of building energy performance and indoor thermal comfort by combining artificial neural networks and metaheuristic algorithms	110
A building energy consumption prediction model based on rough set theory and deep learning algorithms	105
Resilient cooling of buildings to protect against heat waves and power outages: Key concepts and definition	103
Building energy prediction using artificial neural networks: A literature survey	101
Occupant-density-detection based energy efficient ventilation system: Prevention of infection transmission	100
Effective PCM, insulation, natural and/or night ventilation techniques to enhance the thermal performance of buildings located in various climates – A review	100
Calibrating building energy simulation models: A review of the basics to guide future work	99
Embodied energy and embodied carbon of structural building materials: Worldwide progress and barriers through literature map analysis	95
Aerogel based thermal insulating cementitious composites: A review	93
Building-Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) products and systems: A review of energy-related behavior	93
NILM applications: Literature review of learning approaches, recent developments and challenges	90
Aerogel glazing systems for building applications: A review	89

Predicting hourly heating load in a district heating system based on a hybrid CNN-LSTM model	88
High energy efficiency ventilation to limit COVID-19 contagion in school environments	86
Resilient cooling strategies – A critical review and qualitative assessment	86
Effectiveness of passive design strategies in responding to future climate change for residential buildings in hot and humid Hong Kong	85
Ultra-short term power load forecasting based on CEEMDAN-SE and LSTM neural network	84
Policies for energy conservation and sufficiency: Review of existing policies and recommendations for new and effective policies in OECD countries	84
Coupled EnergyPlus and CFD analysis of PCM for thermal management of buildings	84
A data mining-based framework for the identification of daily electricity usage patterns and anomaly detection in building electricity consumption data	84
Using BIM to improve building energy efficiency – A scientometric and systematic review	83
Thermal energy storage using phase change materials in building applications: A review of the recent development	83
Application of machine learning in thermal comfort studies: A review of methods, performance and challenges	81
Application of phase change material in improving trombe wall efficiency: An up-to-date and comprehensive overview	80
CFD simulation of natural ventilation of a generic building in various incident wind directions: Comparison of turbulence modelling, evaluation methods, and ventilation mechanisms	79
Short-term electric load forecasting using an EMD-BI-LSTM approach for smart grid energy management system	78
Non-destructive techniques (NDT) for the diagnosis of heritage buildings: Traditional procedures and futures perspectives	78
Climate change impacts on trends and extremes in future heating and cooling demands over Europe	78
Modelling heating and cooling energy demand for building stock using a hybrid approach	77
Multi-factor analysis on thermal comfort and energy saving potential for PCM-integrated buildings in summer	77
The effect of lighting environment on task performance in buildings – A review	77
Gender differences in metabolic rates and thermal comfort in sedentary young males and females at various temperatures	75
Transfer learning-based strategies for fault diagnosis in building energy systems	75
A hybrid RF-LSTM based on CEEMDAN for improving the accuracy of building energy consumption prediction	75
A bibliometric review of net zero energy building research 1995–2022	75
Future energy-optimised buildings — Addressing the impact of climate change on buildings	74
Current and future coating technologies for architectural glazing applications	74
Thermal comfort and energy performance of personal comfort systems (PCS): A systematic review and meta-analysis	74
Factors influencing embodied carbon emissions of China's building sector: An analysis based on extended STIRPAT modeling	74
Building power consumption datasets: Survey, taxonomy and future directions	72
Multiobjective optimization of building energy consumption and thermal comfort based on integrated BIM framework with machine learning-NSGA II	71
Building HVAC control with reinforcement learning for reduction of energy cost and demand charge	70
Fault detection diagnostic for HVAC systems via deep learning algorithms	69
Thermoelectric air conditioning undergarment for personal thermal management and HVAC energy saving	69
On the impact of nature-based solutions on citizens’ health & well being	68
Using urban building energy modelling (UBEM) to support the new European Union’s Green Deal: Case study of Dublin Ireland	67
Improving the energy efficiency of passive PCM system using controlled natural ventilation	67
Data driven indoor air quality prediction in educational facilities based on IoT network	66
An experimental investigation of CuO/water nanofluid heat transfer in geothermal heat exchanger	65
Multi-objective two-stage adaptive robust planning method for an integrated energy system considering load uncertainty	65
Holistic life-cycle accounting of carbon emissions of prefabricated buildings using LCA and BIM	65
Energy poverty. How can you fight it, if you can’t measure it?	65
Review of global research advances towards net-zero emissions buildings	64
Phase change cooling in data centers: A review	64
Physics-constrained deep learning of multi-zone building thermal dynamics	64
Prediction of heating energy consumption with operation pattern variables for non-residential buildings using LSTM networks	64
Real-time non-intrusive load monitoring: A light-weight and scalable approach	63
Influencing factors analysis and operation optimization for the long-term performance of medium-deep borehole heat exchanger coupled ground source heat pump system	62
The impact of the COVID-19 on households’ hourly electricity consumption in Canada	62
Impacts of bilateral trade on energy affordability and accessibility across Europe: Does economic globalization reduce energy poverty?	62
Interpretable deep learning model for building energy consumption prediction based on attention mechanism	61
Thermoregulation model JOS-3 with new open source code	60

Application of phase change materials in building components and the use of nanotechnology for its improvement	60
Reinforcement learning of occupant behavior model for cross-building transfer learning to various HVAC control systems	60
Life-cycle building information modelling (BIM) engaged framework for improving building energy performance	60
Peer-to-peer electricity trading in an industrial site: Value of buildings flexibility on peak load reduction	60
In search of optimal consumption: A review of causes and solutions to the Energy Performance Gap in residential buildings	60
Ensemble learning with member optimization for fault diagnosis of a building energy system	59
The nexus between access to electricity and CO2 damage in Asian Countries: The evidence from quantile regression models	59
Analysis of feature matrix in machine learning algorithms to predict energy consumption of public buildings	59
The regional disparity of per-capita CO2 emissions in China’s building sector: An analysis of macroeconomic drivers and policy implications	59
A semi-supervised approach to fault detection and diagnosis for building HVAC systems based on the modified generative adversarial network	59
Life cycle cost assessment and multi-criteria decision analysis of environment-friendly building insulation materials - A review	58
Techno-economic performances of clean heating solutions to replace raw coal for heating in Northern rural China	58
Application of retro-reflective materials in urban buildings: A comprehensive review	58
IoT Task Management Mechanism Based on Predictive Optimization for Efficient Energy Consumption in Smart Residential Buildings	58
Climate change adaptation with energy resilience in energy districts—A state-of-the-art review	57
Cement based-thermal energy storage mortar including blast furnace slag/capric acid shape-stabilized phase change material: Physical, mechanical, thermal properties and solar thermoregulation performa	57
Green building policies in cities: A comparative assessment and analysis	57
A vision-based deep learning approach for the detection and prediction of occupancy heat emissions for demand-driven control solutions	57
An experimental study of the active cooling performance of a novel radiant ceiling panel containing phase change material (PCM)	57
Generative design and performance optimization of residential buildings based on parametric algorithm	57
Impact of impinging jet ventilation on thermal comfort and indoor air quality in office buildings	56
Analysis of residential EV energy flexibility potential based on real-world charging reports and smart meter data	56
BIM-based techno-economic assessment of energy retrofitting residential buildings in hot humid climate	56
Active consumer participation in smart energy systems	55
Progress, knowledge gap and future directions of urban heat mitigation and adaptation research through a bibliometric review of history and evolution	55
Improving cooling load prediction reliability for HVAC system using Monte-Carlo simulation to deal with uncertainties in input variables	54
A bibliometric review of studies on construction and demolition waste management by using CiteSpace	54
Multi-zone indoor temperature prediction with LSTM-based sequence to sequence model	54
Experimental research on a feasible rice husk/geopolymer foam building insulation material	54
Phase change material incorporation techniques in building envelopes for enhancing the building thermal Comfort-A review	54
Experimental and numerical investigation of PCM capsules as insulation materials inserted into a hollow brick wall	53
Impacts of urban-scale building height diversity on urban climates: A case study of Nanjing, China	53
A critical review of the research about radiant cooling systems in China	53
An experimental comparison on regional thermal environment of the high-density enclosed building groups with retro-reflective and high-reflective coatings	53
Techno-economic analysis of combined cooling, heating, and power (CCHP) system integrated with multiple renewable energy sources and energy storage units	52
Research trends on environmental, energy and vulnerability impacts of Urban Heat Islands: An overview	52
Digital twin with Machine learning for predictive monitoring of CO2 equivalent from existing buildings	52
Performance analysis of a grid-connected rooftop solar PV system in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia	51
Impact of people's behavior on the energy sustainability of the residential sector in emergency situations caused by COVID-19	51
On the potential of demand-controlled ventilation system to enhance indoor air quality and thermal condition in Australian school classrooms	51
Health implications of household multidimensional energy poverty for women: A structural equation modeling technique	51
Building occupancy forecasting: A systematical and critical review	50
The design of safe classrooms of educational buildings for facing contagions and transmission of diseases: A novel approach combining audits, calibrated energy models, building performance (BPS) and c	50
Photovoltaics in the built environment: A critical review	50
The effect of spatial heterogeneity in urban morphology on surface urban heat islands	50
What is the optimal robust environmental and cost-effective solution for building renovation? Not the usual one	49
Advances in the research of building energy saving	49
Developing a solid–solid phase change heat storage asphalt pavement material and its application as functional filler for cooling asphalt pavement	49
An online physical-based multiple linear regression model for building’s hourly cooling load prediction	49
Review on Time-Integrated Overheating Evaluation Methods for Residential Buildings in Temperate Climates of Europe	49
Statistical characterization of semi-supervised neural networks for fault detection and diagnosis of air handling units	49
Influence of thermal energy storage and heat pump parametrization for demand-side-management in a nearly-zero-energy-building using model predictive control	49
Optimal temperature ranges considering gender differences in thermal comfort, work performance, and sick building syndrome: A winter field study in university classrooms	48
Impact of meteorological factors on high-rise office building energy consumption in Hong Kong: From a spatiotemporal perspective	48
Comparative life cycle assessment of cross laminated timber building and concrete building with special focus on biogenic carbon	48
Towards intelligent building energy management: AI-based framework for power consumption and generation forecasting	48
Technological development of evaporative cooling systems and its integration with air dehumidification processes: A review	48
Dynamic insulation systems of building envelopes: A review	48
Model predictive control under weather forecast uncertainty for HVAC systems in university buildings	47
Optimisation of multi-residential building retrofit, cost-optimal and net-zero emission targets	47
Smart windows – Transmittance tuned thermochromic coatings for dynamic control of building performance	47
A novel short-term load forecasting framework based on time-series clustering and early classification algorithm	47
Thermal performance optimization of envelope in the energy-saving renovation of existing residential buildings	46
Application of two promising Reinforcement Learning algorithms for load shifting in a cooling supply system	46
Towards a holistic approach to indoor environmental quality assessment: Weighting schemes to combine effects of multiple environmental factors	46
Net-zero energy buildings: The influence of definition on greenhouse gas emissions	46
An experimental and numerical analysis of an improved thermal storage tank with encapsulated PCM for use in retrofitted buildings for heating	46
Experimental study of PCM-enhanced building envelope towards energy-saving and decarbonisation in a severe hot climate	46
Research on the climate response of variable thermo-physical property building envelopes: A literature review	46
Natural ventilation by windcatcher (Badgir): A review on the impacts of geometry, microclimate and macroclimate	46
Distribution characteristics and utilization of shallow geothermal energy in China	45
AutoBPS: A tool for urban building energy modeling to support energy efficiency improvement at city-scale	45
Comparing Generative Adversarial Networks architectures for electricity demand forecasting	45
Nature-inspired moisture management fabric for unidirectional liquid transport and surface repellence and resistance	45
Enhancing operational performance of AHUs through an advanced fault detection and diagnosis process based on temporal association and decision rules	45
Thermal conductivity enhancement of a sodium acetate trihydrate–potassium chloride–urea/expanded graphite composite phase–change material for latent heat thermal energy storage	45
A general multi-source ensemble transfer learning framework integrate of LSTM-DANN and similarity metric for building energy prediction	44
Occupant-centric urban building energy modeling: Approaches, inputs, and data sources - A review	44
Feasibility and retrofit guidelines towards net-zero energy buildings in tropical climates: A case of Ghana	44
Factors affecting green building development at the municipal level: A cross-sectional study in China	44

Quantifying the dualistic nature of urban heat Island effect (UHI) on building energy consumption	44
Impact of urban form on building energy consumption and solar energy potential: A case study of residential blocks in Jianhu, China	44
Hybrid system controls of natural ventilation and HVAC in mixed-mode buildings: A comprehensive review	44
On the interaction between lighting and thermal comfort: An integrated approach to IEQ	44
A quantitative analysis of the impact of residential cluster layout on building heating energy consumption in cold IIB regions of China	44
A new methodology of evaluation of overheating in buildings	43
Integrating PCM into hollow brick walls: Toward energy conservation in Mediterranean regions	43
Implications of passive energy efficiency measures on life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of high-rise residential building envelopes	43
Modelling microscale impacts assessment of urban expansion on seasonal surface urban heat island intensity using neural network algorithms	43
Sequence-to-sequence neural networks for short-term electrical load forecasting in commercial office buildings	43
Optimal sizing of PV-BESS units for home energy management system-equipped households considering day-ahead load scheduling for demand response and self-consumption	43
Impact of façade design on indoor air temperatures and cooling loads in residential buildings in the tropical climate	43
Energy, economic and comfort optimization of building retrofits considering climate change: A simulation-based NSGA-III approach	42
Model-based optimization of free cooling switchover temperature and cooling tower approach temperature for data center cooling system with water-side economizer	42
To retrofit or not? Making energy retrofit decisions through life cycle thinking for Canadian residences	42
A combined genetic optimization with AdaBoost ensemble model for anomaly detection in buildings electricity consumption	42
Optimal energy management of smart building for peak shaving considering multi-energy flexibility measures	42
Influence of pavements on the urban heat island phenomenon: A scientific evolution analysis	42
Impacts of data preprocessing and selection on energy consumption prediction model of HVAC systems based on deep learning	42
Research on carbon emission peak prediction and path of China’s public buildings: Scenario analysis based on LEAP model	42
Digital Twin-driven approach to improving energy efficiency of indoor lighting based on computer vision and dynamic BIM	42
Effect of urban built form and density on building energy performance in temperate climates	42
Building envelope modeling calibration using aerial thermography	42
Optimization of power-to-heat flexibility for residential buildings in response to day-ahead electricity price	42
Advances in standalone and hybrid earth-air heat exchanger (EAHE) systems for buildings: A review	41
Model predictive control optimization for rapid response and energy efficiency based on the state-space model of a radiant floor heating system	41
Assessment of mid-to-long term energy saving impacts of nearly zero energy building incentive policies in cold region of China	41
Investigating the performance of machine learning models combined with different feature selection methods to estimate the energy consumption of buildings	41
Simulation study for a switchable adaptive polymer dispersed liquid crystal smart window for two climate zones (Riyadh and London)	41
Detailed cross comparison of building energy simulation tools results using a reference office building as a case study	41
Encouraging natural ventilation to improve indoor environmental conditions at schools. Case studies in the north of Spain before and during COVID	41
Thermal adaptation of buildings and people for energy saving in extreme cold climate of Nepal	41
Impact of urban morphology on urban microclimate and building energy loads	41
On the impact of user behaviour on heating energy consumption and indoor temperature in residential buildings	40
Drivers, barriers and strategies for zero carbon buildings in high-rise high-density cities	40
A novel approach of day-ahead cooling load prediction and optimal control for ice-based thermal energy storage (TES) system in commercial buildings	40
Occupancy-based energy consumption modelling using machine learning algorithms for institutional buildings	40
Investigation on household energy consumption of urban residential buildings in major cities of Indonesia during COVID-19 pandemic	40
Optimal control method of HVAC based on multi-agent deep reinforcement learning	40
Whether rural rooftop photovoltaics can effectively fight the power consumption conflicts at the regional scale – A case study of Jiangsu Province	40
Comparison of machine-learning models for predicting short-term building heating load using operational parameters	40
Tempo-spatial thermal comfort analysis of urban heat island with coupling of CFD and building energy simulation	40
Development of electricity consumption profiles of residential buildings based on smart meter data clustering	40
Aggregated short-term load forecasting for heterogeneous buildings using machine learning with peak estimation	40
Global comparison of building energy use data within the context of climate change	40
State-of-the-art on thermal energy storage technologies in data center	40
Embodied emissions of buildings - A forgotten factor in green building certificates	39
The role of one-stop shops in energy renovation - a comparative analysis of OSSs cases in Europe	39
Structure characteristics and hygrothermal performance of silica aerogel composites for building thermal insulation in humid areas	39
The Leeds urban heat island and its implications for energy use and thermal comfort	39
Optimization of thermochemical energy storage systems based on hydrated salts: A review	39
Influences of the optimized air curtain at subway entrance to reduce the ingress of outdoor airborne particles	39
Sensitivity analysis of cooling demand applied to a large office building	39
Generating future weather files under climate change scenarios to support building energy simulation – A machine learning approach	39
Experimental study on the thermal performance of a 3D printed concrete prototype building	39
Depth optimization of solidification properties of a latent heat energy storage unit under constant rotation mechanism	39
Numerical study on the effect of diner divider on the airborne transmission of diseases in canteens	39
Assessment of operational carbon emission reduction of energy conservation measures for commercial buildings: Model development	39
Thermal comfort and energy saving of novel heat-storage coatings with microencapsulated PCM and their application	39
Fault detection and diagnosis for Air Handling Unit based on multiscale convolutional neural networks	39
Development of a back-propagation neural network and adaptive grey wolf optimizer algorithm for thermal comfort and energy consumption prediction and optimization	39
Enhancement of thermal conductivity by graphene as additive in lauric-stearic acid/treated diatomite composite phase change materials for heat storage in building envelope	38
A novel image-based transfer learning framework for cross-domain HVAC fault diagnosis: From multi-source data integration to knowledge sharing strategies	38
Fault detection and diagnosis of the air handling unit via an enhanced kernel slow feature analysis approach considering the time-wise and batch-wise dynamics	38
Influence of acclimatization and short-term thermal history on outdoor thermal comfort in subtropical South China	38
Bridging the energy performance gap of social housing stock in south-eastern Mediterranean Europe: Climate change and mitigation	38
Energy-quota-based integrated solutions for heating and cooling of residential buildings in the Hot Summer and Cold Winter zone in China	38
Summer thermal comfort in nursing homes in the Mediterranean climate	38
Energy analysis of a green façade in summer: an experimental test in Mediterranean climate conditions	38
Prediction of building power consumption using transfer learning-based reference building and simulation dataset	38
Zero-energy log house – Future concept for an energy efficient building in the Nordic conditions	38
Digital Twin framework for automated fault source detection and prediction for comfort performance evaluation of existing non-residential Norwegian buildings	37
Role of energy efficiency and distributed renewable energy in designing carbon neutral residential buildings and communities: Case study of Saudi Arabia	37
Reinforcement learning of room temperature set-point of thermal storage air-conditioning system with demand response	37
Annual energy harvesting performance of a phase change material-integrated thermoelectric power generation block in building walls	37
Advocating for view and daylight in buildings: Next steps	37
Analysis of the operation performance of a hybrid solar ground-source heat pump system	37
Role of energy efficiency measures and hybrid PV/biomass power generation in designing 100% electric rural houses: A case study in Morocco	37
Cooling system energy flexibility of a nearly zero-energy office building using building thermal mass: Potential evaluation and parametric analysis	36
Natural ventilation potential from weather analyses and building simulation	36
Review of water-based wall systems: Heating, cooling, and thermal barriers	36
A data-driven electric water heater scheduling and control system	36
Energy disaggregation using variational autoencoders	36
Passive cooling design strategies as adaptation measures for lowering the indoor overheating risk in tropical climates	36
Application of vision-based occupancy counting method using deep learning and performance analysis	36
Energy efficiency, thermal resilience, and health during extreme heat events in low-income housing in Argentina	36
Exploring the potentials of personalized ventilation in mitigating airborne infection risk for two closely ranged occupants with different risk assessment models	36
Overview and future challenges of nearly zero-energy building (nZEB) design in Eastern Europe	36
Passive cooling designs to improve heat resilience of homes in underserved and vulnerable communities	36
Classification of daily electric load profiles of non-residential buildings	36
Air source heat pump in-situ performance	36
Evaluation of the accuracy of PMV and its several revised models using the Chinese thermal comfort Database	36
Energy performance of building integrated photovoltaic high-rise building: Case study, Tehran, Iran	36
Urban building energy model: Database development, validation, and application for commercial building stock	36
The effect of thermochromic windows on visual performance and sustained attention	36