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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Building--Energy consumption"”.
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Building Energy Consumption in New York City
… like CCNY. In the study, I focused on energy consumption as regards to COVID and POST-COVID periods in New York City (NYC), since most employees are working from home and schools are online which implies that most commercial buildings are vacant. Also due to the high rate of COVID-19 …
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Study of the Effect of Light Emitting Diode (LED) on the Optimum Window-to-Wall Ratio and Whole-Building Energy Consumption in Open Offices
… windows brings an uncontrolled amount of solar energy to the spaces and negatively affect the building's energy performance. When utilizing passive design strategies such as daylight harvesting, several parameters, including the electrical lighting system, can impact the outcome. The current …
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Reducing Energy Consumption in Residential Buildings: The Impacts of Occupant Behaviour and Engaging Control Systems
In Canada, buildings account for 35% of energy consumption and hold the largest opportunity for reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Occupant engagement poses one of the best solutions to reducing building energy consumption, with studies showing annual energy consumption can …
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Towards Net Positive and Nearly Zero Carbon Residential Neighborhoods
… Canada (NRCan) estimated that residential buildings consume 16.6% of the total energy and are responsible for producing 12.7% of greenhouse gas emissions. The presented research aims to enhance the high-performance solar neighborhood’s design process to achieve overall net-zero energy …
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On the Understanding of the Coastal-Urban Nexus of Weather, Air Quality and Energy
… interactions between atmospheric processes, building energy consumption, and air quality, particularly during periods of seasonal extremes such as summer ozone peaks and winter heating. Accurate representation of these interactions in urban modeling is crucial for understanding and addressing …
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Energy efficiency improvement for faculty of technical and vocational education building
Energy efficiency becomes important matter due to correlate to sustainability and money. The ministry of Education Malaysia has urged all education center to conserved energy. Energy wastage tends to occur in Malaysian universities mainly due to inefficient use of energy and lack of awareness among …
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Optimization of residential buildings and renewable energy integration in small island developing states: the Bahamas as a case study
An optimization approach is used to assess the energy performance and design of residential homes in The Bahamas with the goal of providing objective data for policy makers to achieve the sustainability goals in the country. EnergyPlus and jEPlus+EA provide the platform for this study, implementing …
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Machine learning paradigms for building energy performance simulations
… seeks to overcome a technical limitation of building energy performance simulations, the computation time, by using surrogate modeling, a class of supervised machine learning techniques where the output is a performance metric. Though early machine learning methods were introduced decades …
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Data-driven models to evaluate root causes of energy performance gaps in office buildings
Designers develop high-performance office building designs with efficient envelopes, and Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems utilizing energy modeling tools with forecasted occupancy, plug load, and operational profiles as inputs. Their expected performance is often not met due …
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ENERPAC: an interactive program for estimating building energy loads
Energy shortages in urban areas and rapidly rising energy costs will soon make building energy consumption an important element in architectural design. Previously, this factor had been given consideration only in the latter stages of design, and then by the consulting engineer. Now, the architect …
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Evaluation of the potential impact of electrochromic windows on the energy performance of commercial buildings
… most promising emerging technology to improve building performance as they provide greater control of solar gains; they have a potentially significant impact on the indoor visual environment and energy requirements of commercial buildings. The research work presented in this thesis, which is …
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A Bio-inspired Solution to Mitigate Urban Heat Island Effects
Over the last decade, rapidly growing world energy consumption is leading to supply difficulties, exhaustion of fossil energy resources, and global environmental deterioration. More than one-third of energy expenditure is attributable to buildings. Urbanization is intensifying these trends with …
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Development and modeling of a solar powered ground source heat pump system
Buildings consumed 40% of the energy and represented 40% of the carbon emissions in the United States. This is more than any other sector of the U.S. economy, including transportation and industry. Most building energy consumption is for space heating, cooling and water heating in buildings. …
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The Impact of Different Passive Roof Construction Types on Building Thermal Performance / Experimental Method for Optimizing the Thermal Performance of Building Enclosures
Buildings are large consumers of energy worldwide, responsible for roughly 40% of the world’s primary energy consumption. In regions with hot climatic conditions such as Iraq, a substantial portion of energy goes to building space cooling loads. Although all components of the building enclosure are …
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Study and prediction of the energy interactions between buildings and the urban climate
… different cities around the world. Conventional building energy programs use standard meteorological databases obtained from measurements at operational weather stations, which are usually located in open areas outside of the city, typically at the airport. Therefore, air temperature measurements …
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A method for selecting HVAC retrofit solutions for existing small- and medium-sized commercial buildings
… types of small- and medium-sized commercial buildings (SMSCB). Additionally, development of an advanced data-driven decision-making tool is introduced as a benefit of proposed framework. In recent years, considerable attention has been focused on retrofits of existing commercial buildings …
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Assessment of the Impact of Climate Change on the Performance of Residential Buildings in New Zealand
… the potential effects of climate change on building energy consumption. This research aimed to analyse the potential impact of current and future climate change scenarios on the heating and cooling requirements of residential buildings across different regions in New Zealand. The study …
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Directional Airflow for HVAC Systems
… could adjust the direction of flow. In the building sector however, HVAC systems are usually equipped with stationary diffusors that can only supply the air either in the form of diffusion or with fixed direction to the room in which they have been installed. In the present thesis, the …
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