In hot climates, the large amount of cooling load in electric vehicle (EV) results in a lot of battery energy consumption, leading the decrease of driving range. With the widespread application of windows in EV, the electrochromic glass (EC) shows …

Using the behind-meter data, this study applied a comparison and optimization-based framework to evaluate the energy flexibility and resilience of distributed energy resources within existing houses during cold wave event. Comparative analysis …

Accurately predicting the chiller coefficient of performance (COP) is essential for improving the energy efficiency of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, significantly contributing to energy conservation in buildings.

Opening windows in coach buses is a practical approach to improving natural ventilation and mitigating infection risk (IR). Due to human behavior and weather conditions, the intermittent window opening strategy (IWOS) is a more common practice …

Fault detection and diagnosis are essential to the air conditioning system of the data center for elevating reliability and reducing energy consumption. This study proposed a convolutional neural network (CNN) based data-driven fault detection and …

Connecting occupants to the outdoor environment and incorporating biophilic design principles are challenging in extreme Arctic climatic conditions. Existing Arctic housing models do not provide efficient thermal and daylight transitions which are …

In the context of escalating global energy demands, urban areas, specifically the building sector, contribute to the largest energy consumption, with urban overheating exacerbating this issue. Utilizing urban modelling for heat-mitigation and …

The dynamic characteristics of different airflows on micro-scales have been explored from many perspectives since the late 1970s. On the one hand, most analytical tools and research subjects in previous contributions vary significantly: some only …

Building-level loads and load schedules prescribed by current modeling rules save modelers time and provide standards during whole building performance modeling. However, recent studies show that they sometimes insufficiently capture the entire …

To investigate the impact of building heat transfer on roof snow loads, roof snow loads and snow load thermal coefficients from 61 Chinese sites over a period of 50 years are simulated based on basic meteorological data such as temperature …

Retrofitting a historic building under different national goals involves multiple objectives, constraints, and numerous potential measures and packages, therefore it is time-consuming and challenging during the early design stage. This study …

The global prevalence of infectious diseases has emerged as a significant challenge in recent years. Surface transmission is a potential transmission route of most gastrointestinal and respiratory infectious diseases, which is related to surface …

The air infiltration rate of buildings strongly influences indoor environment and energy consumption. In this study, several traditional methods for determining the air infiltration rate were compared, and their accuracy in different scenarios was …

Bifacial PV modules capture solar radiation from both sides, enhancing power generation by utilizing reflected sunlight. However, there are difficulties in obtaining ground albedo data due to its dynamic variations. To address this issue, this …

Indoor environment quality (IEQ) is one of the most concerned building performances during the operation stage. The non-uniform spatial distribution of various IEQ parameters in large-scale public buildings has been demonstrated to be an essential …

Changing climate intensifies heat stress, resulting in a greater risk of workplace productivity decline in timber office buildings with low internal thermal mass. The impact of climate change induced heat exposure on indoor workplace productivity …