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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Building Energy Efficiency"”.
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Building Energy Efficiency - Policy, learning and technology change
Experience shows that energy efficiency improvements are the most cost-effective path to meeting global energy challenges. To promote energy efficiency, various policy instruments have been in place since the 1970s. Nevertheless, energy efficiency improvements still lag behind their potential in …
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Local environmental governance: Assessing proactive initiatives in building energy efficiency
… of proactive initiatives in the field of building energy efficiency, and the governance approaches taken. It addresses outcomes both in the socio-technical system that constitutes the building, and in the institutional sphere. The overarching objective is to contribute to knowledge on the …
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Adaptive sensing and personalized thermal comfort prediction for building energy efficiency
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Machine learning for human-centered and value-sensitive building energy efficiency
Enhancing building energy efficiency is one of the best strategies to reduce energy consumption and associated CO2 emissions. Recent studies emphasized the importance of occupant behavior as a key means of enhancing building energy efficiency. However, it is also critical that while we strive to …
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Metabolic Scaling Analysis of Building Energy Efficiency: A Case Study of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The building sector plays a critical role in global energy consumption and carbon emissions, accounting for 21% of global GHG emissions (12 GtCO₂-eq) and 31% of global final energy demand (128.8 EJ) in 2019 (Cabeza et al. 2022). This reality underscores the urgent need to enhance energy efficiency …
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Optimal subsidy policy to promote building energy efficiency under uncertainty : the case for architectural design subsidies
… cost-effectiveness of subsidies in incentivizing energy efficiency investment using a real option framework. I generalize a model of a sequential investment project involving two stages, design and construction stage, and investment lags and incorporate explicit consideration of dynamic subsidies. …
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Development of a Software Platform with Distributed Learning Algorithms for Building Energy Efficiency and Demand Response Applications
… United States, over 40% of the country's total energy consumption is in buildings, most of which are either small-sized (<5,000 sqft) or medium-sized (5,000-50,000 sqft). These buildings offer excellent opportunities for energy saving and demand response (DR), but these opportunities are rarely …
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Semi-Open Space and Micro-Environmental Control for Improving Thermal Comfort, Indoor Air Quality, and Building Energy Efficiency
… set-points were relaxed for reducing the overall energy consumption of the building. A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model was developed and validated. The model in combination with the results from full-scale chamber experiments was used to evaluate the performance of proposed …
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Development of an Occupant-centric Control Algorithm for Mixed-Mode Ventilation Buildings to Regulate Window Operations
… and mechanical ventilation to improve building energy efficiency and indoor air quality. However, in practice, mixed-mode ventilation buildings do not always achieve better performance than mechanically ventilated buildings, largely due to inappropriate window operations. Therefore, the …
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Building occupancy analytics based on deep learning through the use of environmental sensor data
Balancing indoor comfort and energy consumption is crucial to building energy efficiency. Occupancy information is a vital aspect in this process, as it determines the energy demand. Although there are various sensors used to gather occupancy information, environmental sensors stand out due to …
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Retrofitting Affordable Multifamily Housing: A Survey of Landlords in Cincinnati, Ohio
Building energy efficiency retrofits are a crucial part of decarbonizing the building sector and decreasing residential energy burden—low-income households, renters, and residents of multifamily buildings disproportionately bear this burden. This study serves as a case study on WarmUp Cincy …
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Overcoming barriers to energy efficiency for rental housing
Improving building energy efficiency is widely recognized as one of the best strategies for combating climate change and other energy problems. Energy efficiency implementation has been slow, however, due to a number of practical barriers, and few building sectors face higher hurdles to energy …
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What Role Can CEQA Play in Reaching GHG Emissions Reductions Goals Set Forth in AB 32 – An Analysis of CEQA, AB 32, and Recommendations for CEQA Reform
… to include projects that employ green building, energy efficiency, and VMT reducing projects, and improving the energy conservation analysis, as well as the GHG and transportation assessments under CEQA.</p>
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Meeting A Community’s Emissions Reduction Targets Using Urban Building Energy Modeling
… paper lays out a six-step process using urban building energy modeling to identify a combination of building energy efficiency upgrades and renewable energy deployment strategies that meet emissions goals. The process involves key decision makers in each municipality working with an energy …
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Dynamic Materials and Devices for Controlling Solar Heat Gain in Buildings
… science, coupled with an understanding of our energy consumption patterns, allows for the opportunity to realize large-scale energy savings through the implementation of more efficient, adaptive technologies. More efficient heating and cooling of both commercial and residential buildings is a …
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Simulating Network Structure, Layering Multi-layer Network System and Developing Network Block Configuration Model to Understand and Improve Energy Conservation in Residential Buildings
The building sector is a major contributor to total energy consumption in most countries. Traditionally, researchers have focused on leveraging energy efficiency by improving building materials, in-house facilities and transmission equipment. More recently, however, there has been increased focus …
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Simplified Floor-Area-Based Energy-Moisture-Economic Model for Residential Buildings
In the United States, 21% of all energy is used in residential buildings (40% of which is for heating and cooling homes). Promising improvements in residential building energy efficiency are underway such as the Building America Program and the Passive House Concept. The ability of improving energy …
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Leveraging Human-environment Systems in Residential Buildings for Aggregate Energy Efficiency and Sustainability
Reducing the energy consumed in the built environment is a key objective in many sustainability initiatives. Existing energy saving methods have consisted of physical interventions to buildings and/or behavioral modifications of occupants. However, such methods may not only suffer from their own …
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Computational Approaches to Improving Room Heating and Cooling for Energy Efficiency in Buildings
… a nation-wide aim toward reducing operational energy costs in buildings, it is important to understand the dynamics of controlled heating, cooling, and air circulation of an individual room, the "One-Room Model Problem." By understanding how one most efficiently regulates a room's climate, one …
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A BIM-based Interoperability Platform in Support of Building Operation and Energy Management
Building energy efficiency is progressively becoming a crucial topic in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sector. Energy management tools have been developed to promise appropriate energy savings. Building energy simulation (BES) is a tool mainly used to analyze and compare the …
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