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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Occupant comfort"”.
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A Novel Approach to Indoor Environment Assessment: Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) Framework for Improving Occupant Comfort and Health in Educational Facilities
… in educational facilities is crucial for student comfort, health, well-being, and learning performance. Amidst the growing recognition of the impact of indoor environmental conditions on occupant comfort, health, and well-being, there has been an increasing focus on the assessment and modeling of …
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Machine learning for human-centered and value-sensitive building energy efficiency
… 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 enhance the energy efficiency of buildings through improving occupant behavior, we still pay enough attention to occupant …
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Decentralized thermal control of building systems
… Therefore, it is important to provide the occupant comfort requirements in buildings in an energy efficient manner. However, buildings are large scale complex systems, susceptible to sensor, actuator or communication network failures in their thermal control infrastructure, that can affect …
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Optimal Allocation of Building Cooling Loads to Chilled Water Plant Equipment
… buildings needs to be cooled to maintain occupant comfort. Typically, the air is cooled by using cold water provided by a chiller plant consisting of liquid chillers, cooling towers and pumps. To meet the changing demand for cooling, most buildings have automated systems that control the …
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An Agent-based Platform for Demand Response Implementation in Smart Buildings
… homes are to secure critical loads, mitigate occupant comfort violation, and minimize appliance run-time after a DR event. For commercial applications, the goal is to propose a MAS architecture and platform that help facilitate the implementation of a Critical Peak Pricing (CPP) program. Main …
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Multi-objective optimization for structure and energy in the case of multistory buildings with atriums
… push structural optimization while designing for occupant comfort using natural ventilation and buoyancy effects? And 2) What constraints are put on a building's global design when cooling and heating is accomplished with natural air flows?"
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Frequency-based response of damped outrigger systems for tall buildings
… the design for stiffness is usually governed by occupant comfort under lateral acceleration. This thesis describes the concept of incorporating fluid viscous dampers in the outrigger system to add supplementary damping into the structure. A 40-story building installed with the variant outrigger …
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C L I M A + : an early design natural ventilation prediction method
… addition to providing fresh air, which enhances occupant productivity and comfort, strategic implementation of natural ventilation in buildings reduces the energy needed for cooling. And this reduction in energy consumption significantly reduces carbon dioxide emissions. During the initial design …
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Optimisation of Closed Cavity Façade to Enhance Energy Performance and Indoor Environmental Quality in Office Buildings
… building performance in terms of energy use and occupant comfort. Due to the role of the transparent part of the building envelope in regulating heat and mass transfer, it has a significant impact on building performance (building whole-life carbon and costs, overall energy use and Indoor …
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A study on the indoor environment quality: its impact on occupants’ productivity of university library (Wolverhampton University libraries as an example)
Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) determines occupant comfort, health, and productivity within built environments. As essential academic spaces, university libraries enhance student learning, research, and overall academic performance. While previous studies have primarily examined the health and …
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Urban building energy modeling and retrofit design as a means to inform effective public policy : Boston case study
… to reduce overall utility costs and improve occupant comfort on the part of residents, places cities, as the main catalyst for local energy policy, at the forefront of the drive for a more sustainable built environment. This thesis seeks to explore the potential savings associated with energy …
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Methodology for the evaluation of natural ventilation in buildings using a reduced-scale air model
… to reduce energy consumption while maintaining occupant comfort using natural ventilation. However, current modeling techniques have limitations and assumptions that reduce their effectiveness in predicting internal building performance. There are few tools to predict the thermal performance of …
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Validation of a building simulation tool for predictive control in energy management systems
… evaluate their effects on energy consumption and occupant comfort. Challenges include having an accurate building model, but recent advances in building information modelling (BIM) offer the chance to leverage existing building data, which can be translated into a form understood by the building …
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PI-control in dual duct systems : a study on manual tuning and control loop interaction
… in buildings help reduce energy use and maintain occupant comfort. PID controllers are widely used in commercial buildings to keep variables such as temperature, pressure and humidity at predefined setpoints. These controllers, when they do not include autotuners, must be carefully tuned. Also, …
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Incorporating Occupant Behaviour and Comfort in Domestic Energy Retrofit
… the Climate Change Act 2008, the complexity of occupant behaviour and comfort needs often prevents the seemingly achievable retrofit targets from being reached. These real-life complexities contrast starkly with the standardised and simplistic behavioural profiles currently used in energy …
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Dynamic performance of control loops and their interactions in a VAV HVAC system
… in buildings help reduce energy use and maintain occupant comfort. During the last 10 years, VAV-HVAC systems are widely used in commercial buildings because they can reduce energy use significantly and provide good temperature control of the conditioned spaces compared to CV-HVAC systems. …
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The use of visual comfort metrics in the design of daylit spaces
… reflections from daylight can cause visual discomfort or the inability to perform tasks. Typically, the total amount of luminous flux incident upon a surface per unit area - illuminance - present is used to predict visual discomfort due to questions about the benefit and validity of …
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Examining the feasibility of a novel ground-storage cooling system
… summers. The dehumidification needed to maintain occupant comfort in summer is often provided by condensing the excess moisture onto surfaces cooled by cold water. The systems currently used to provide the cold water have limited efficiencies, so alternative systems must be sought in order to …
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Beyond the Bioclimatic Chart: An Automated Simulation-Based Method for Assessing Natural Ventilation and Passive Design Potential
… have significantly transformed climate and comfort control in buildings. This allows for air conditioning in deserts and heating in the Arctic, ensuring occupant comfort. This innovation, however, has contributed to a homogenization in architectural designs globally, from the hot climates of …
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Can Architecture Increase Productivity? The Case of Green Certified Buildings
… the claim that they increase the productivity of occupants. It is claimed that the extra investment required to construct a Green building not only helps the environment but could also be recovered by the increased productivity of its occupants. This relationship between building design and …
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