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Showing 1 to 20 of 225 for “"building energy"”.
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Accelerating Urban Building Energy Modeling
… and urgent decarbonization goals. In the building sector, urban building energy models (UBEMs) have become a valuable tool for jurisdictions to develop evidence-based retrofitting policies, but dynamically exploring solutions is hampered by the computational expense and organizational …
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Evaluation of building energy conservation options
Evaluation of building energy conservation options in Las Vegas residential buildings merits attention of architects and engineers due to the extremely large amount of home construction taking place around the valley and the anticipated continuation of this activity. With this in mind, the purpose …
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DEEP REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR BUILDING ENERGY MANAGEMENT
Building energy management is an increasingly complex problem, both in terms of energy production and consumption, with the integration of renew- able energy and the ever-increasing needs of building residents. Multiple studies have shown that Deep Reinforcement Learning has great potential in …
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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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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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Building archetype calibration for effective urban building energy modeling
… their built environment. Given the relevance of energy use in buildings, such plans introduce a variety of efficiency and supply planning strategies ranging from the scale of buildings, to full districts. Their implementation requires information about current building energy demands, and how …
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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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Building Energy Profile Clustering Based on Energy Consumption Patterns
With the widespread adoption of smart meters in buildings, an unprecedented amount of high- resolution energy data is released, which provides opportunities to understand building consumption patterns. Accordingly, research efforts have employed data analytics and machine learning methods for the …
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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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Numerical solution of nonlinear algebraic systems in building energy modeling
When solving a system of nonlinear equations by Newton-Raphson's method, a common means of avoiding divergence requires each step to reduce some vector norm of the residual errors, usually the convenient and tractable sum of squares. Unfortunately, the descent requirement subjects the solver to …
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Instructional Modules Demonstrating Building Energy Analysis Using a Building Information Model
The design and analysis of buildings require a high level of collaboration and coordination among the disciplines of architecture, engineering, and construction. Efficiencies can be gained through the sharing of data across disciplines; however, this prospect has not been fully realized. …
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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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Urban building energy modeling as a dynamic tool for sustainability planning
… the most effective strategies to achieving energy efficiency in order to meet these objectives. This thesis explores how urban building energy modeling (UBEM) can be utilized to develop high-impact community-led energy efficiency programs. UBEM is a recently developed type of bottom-up …
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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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Active power ancillary service provision of commercial building energy storage resources
… thesis is to propose new control strategies of building energy storage systems and analyze their effects on operations of power grids and electricity markets. Specifically, novel control schemes of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) and variable speed heat pumps (VSHPs) are proposed to improve …
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Smart Building Energy Management System for Energy Efficiency and Demand Response
Buildings account for a significant share of total energy use throughout the world. Religious facilities, which account for a substantial portion of overall floor space and energy use in the commercial sector, have rarely been the subject of energy efficiency and management studies. Religious …
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