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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Operational Energy"”.
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Material impacts on operational energy usage
… those choices may affect the buildings ultimate energy usage and the impact they may have on climate change. This thesis focuses on concrete structures and how the thermal mass and the thermal resistivity influence energy usage. The investigation was done looking at large commercial office …
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Geothermal Energy Planning Considerations for Military Operational Energy Demands
… Defense has made progress in adopting renewable energy technologies, many of these systems remain too large, inefficient, or underdeveloped for widespread use in operational environments. Geothermal energy presents a promising but underexplored alternative for generating reliable, on-site …
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Household operational energy consumption in urban China : a multilevel analysis on Jinan
… residential sector has seen rapid expansion in energy consumption, and is now the second largest energy consuming sector in the country. Faced with challenges of energy resource depletion and natural environment deterioration, China has been intensifying its efforts on energy conservation and …
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Operational energy/operational effectiveness investigation for scalable Marine expeditionary brigade forces in contingency response scenarios
… combat effectiveness, through efficient energy use in the battle space. This capstone project examined operational energy efficiencies through the specification, modeling, and data analysis associated with force scale alternatives of a Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force …
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Operational energy consumption and GHG emissions in residential sector in urban China : an empirical study in Jinan
… and increasing household incomes, residential energy consumption in urban China has been growing steadily in the past decade, posing critical energy and greenhouse gas emission challenges. Operations represent the most energy consuming phase in the lifecycle of a residential neighborhood, …
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The form of clean energy neighborhoods : how it is guided and how it could be
The subject of "clean energy city" has attained increased attention in recent year. However, almost all studies to date about "clean energy" are either at the building scale or the regional scale and little touches the real estate development scale, or in other words the neighborhood scale. The …
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Developing a Probabilistic Stock Turnover System Dynamics Model to Forecast Whole-life Energy of Chinese Urban Residential Building Stock
… of the global total. In the same year, the final operational energy consumption of Chinese buildings was 504 million tonnes of oil equivalent (toe). More than one third of this energy was consumed by urban residential buildings. With a growing urban population and mounting demand for energy …
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Multi-objective optimization for structure and energy in the case of multistory buildings with atriums
… exists that compares structural efficiency with operational energy efficiency for buildings that incorporate natural ventilation practices. The parametric model successfully generates floor-framing plans with atriums that are similar to industry standards. Furthermore, this research follows a …
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Energy load prediction for Open Charge Point Protocol - compliant electric vehicle charging stations
… end-to-end data pipeline to enable short-term energy forecasting for individual EV charging stations. The system captures and processes OCPP transactions in PostgreSQL, deriving per-session energy for consistent forecasting targets. Using this platform, four models—Random Forest, K-Nearest …
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Shades of Green: Improving the Energy Efficiency and Environmental Impact of Historic Building
… has brought renewed attention and interest in energy efficiency and consideration for the environment among all areas of industry, in particular the built environment. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, operational energy consumption in residential and commercial buildings accounted …
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Comparative urban performance simulation
… simulated included, individual building operational energy use, floor-by-floor spatial daylight autonomy, and site wide occupant mobility. The study area is the Interstate 195 redevelopment site in Providence, Rhode Island. Four historic master planning documents were sampled from 1992 to …
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Low Carbon Architecture: New Approach Toward Sustainability in Relation to Existing Buildings
… gas that is inevitably associated with energy use when energy is produced via the combustion of fuels. Total life cycle energy, embodied and operational energy over a building's lifetime, creates significant environmental impacts through the production of CO2. By keeping and reusing …
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Energy use analysis and technology for electric transit buses
… offer a method of transportation where the energy generation process is moved from the on-board engine to the electrical generation system. The Canadian electrical generation mix has a significant portion of low carbon and renewable sources. This low environmental impact source of energy is …
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Illuminating education : composition and use of lighting in public K-12 classrooms
… performance), understanding of light's role in operational energy consumption, and advancement made in architectural design to address these impacts, little is known about actual use patterns and occupant exposure to light in classroom settings. Through the measurement of lighting conditions and …
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Comparison of environmental impacts of steel and concrete as building materials using the Life Cycle Assessment method
… today. In addition, due to drastic increases in energy prices and potential shortages in the future, the amount of energy consumed in the production of construction materials (embodied energy) and the amount of energy used over a projected life span (operational energy) are becoming increasingly …
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Computational Approaches to Improving Room Heating and Cooling for Energy Efficiency in Buildings
With 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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Optimizing Multi-Dimensional Efficiency of Foundation Models: From Fine-Tuning to Inference
… the widespread adoption of AI applications, the operational energy demand and environmental impacts of AI, have become increasingly significant. Evaluating AI systems should extend beyond accuracy and wall-clock performance to treat sustainability as a first-class objective. However, optimizing …
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Biologically inspired transparent material as an energy system
… envelopes on buildings play a major role in operational energy consumptionas they define the boundary conditions between the climate outside and the thermalcomfort inside a building. Glass façades are viewed as an uncontrolled load that setsthe operational performance requirements for …
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Material quantities of foundation systems in building structures
… are three major areas in which buildings consume energy: (1) energy consumption from operational processes, such as heating and electricity, (2) energy from building material production and supply, and (3) energy from design and construction processes. In recent years, improved operational energy …
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Enhancing Sustainability in Post-Construction Management: Leveraging API-Driven AI and Digital Twins for Optimising M&E Systems
… contributes approximately 40% of global energy consumption and 36% of carbon dioxide emissions, with mechanical and electrical (M&E) systems representing the largest operational energy consumers. While AI-enabled Digital Twin technologies demonstrate proven energy savings of 10-38% in …
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