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Rafael A. Flores and Enedir Ghisi
Water conservation is essential to sustainable development, and among human activities, buildings are responsible for a significant portion of total water consumption. Therefore, we present a systematic review that aims to search for valuable contributio...
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Yibing Xue and Wenhan Liu
Atriums play an irreplaceable role within the plan of modern commercial buildings. However, the presence of skylights makes the atrium suffer from unfavorable conditions such as overheating, high energy consumption, and glare, which can be partially redu...
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Malek Almobarek, Kepa Mendibil, Abdalla Alrashdan and Sobhi Mejjaouli
Predictive Maintenance 4.0 (PdM 4.0) showed a highly positive impact on chilled water system (CWS) maintenance. This research followed the recommendations of a systematic literature review (SLR), which was performed on PdM 4.0 applications for CWS at com...
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Thomas J. Taylor
Reflective roof membranes have been shown to lower air conditioning costs by reducing the influx of thermal energy through a roof assembly and into the building. However, there have been studies suggesting that reflective roofs in cold climates give rise...
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Xiwang Xiang, Xin Ma, Zhili Ma and Minda Ma
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Md. Rezaul Karim, B. M. Sadman Sakib, Sk. Sadman Sakib and Monzur Alam Imteaz
Despite numerous studies on residential rainwater tank, studies on commercial rainwater tank are scarce. Corporate authorities pay little heed on this sustainable feature. With the aim of encouraging corporate authorities, this study presents the feasibi...
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J. J. McArthur, Chris Jofeh and Ann-Marie Aguilar
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J. J. McArthur, Chris Jofeh and Ann-Marie Aguilar
There is increasing literature demonstrating the link between building indoor environmental quality, and occupant health and productivity, driving the corporate real estate industry to investigate how to integrate wellness features in both new and existi...
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Haitham Alkhalaf and Wanglin Yan
The energy performance of residential and commercial buildings is a vital topic because of the rapid urbanization occurring throughout the world. Accommodation buildings are considered energy intensive compared to other commercial facilities. In addition...
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Katarina Bäcklund, Marco Molinari and Per Lundqvist
Energy-intense activities and the unpredictable and complex behavior of building occupants lead to an increase in building energy demand. It is, therefore, crucial to study underlying factors for building energy demand related to the users. Higher educat...
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Nafa C Husana Devi, Gusti A Maulida, Bayu P Perdana, Miftahul Akbar N.A, Reksy Hendrawan
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Current development is increasingly prevalent in areas especially in urban areas, such buildings can be either residential buildings or trade and services that can improve the economy, be it for the government or for the surrounding community but also of...
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Clemens Kielhauser, Raul Renteria Manzano, Jeffrey J. Hoffman and Bryan T. Adey
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs), which have become a key tool in remote sensing in recent years, have also rapidly entered the practice of Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operations (AECO). This paper presents an application study of a method...
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Jasmin Kientzel and Gerjo Kok
Voluntary environmental programs (VEPs) have become increasingly popular around the world to address energy efficiency issues that mandatory building codes have not been able to tackle. Even though the utility of voluntary schemes is widely debated, they...
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Jiefan Gu, Peng Xu and Ying Ji
Occupancy, which refers to the occupant count in this paper, is one of the main factors affecting the energy consumption of commercial buildings. It is important for both building managers and energy simulation engineers to understand how an entire build...
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Satheeskumar Navaratnam, Amitha Jayalath and Lu Aye
Working from home (WFH) has been imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The adoption of WFH impacts energy use in the residential, commercial, and transportation sectors. Consequently, this affects the greenhouse gas emission (GHGE) and the associated ene...
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Qunfeng Ji, Yangbo Bi, Mehdi Makvandi, Qinli Deng, Xilin Zhou and Chuancheng Li
Quantifying the energy consumption of buildings is a complex and multi-scale task, with the entire process dependent on input data and urban surroundings. However, most urban energy models do not account for the urban environment. This paper employs a ph...
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Janghyun Kim, Stephen Frank, James E. Braun and David Goldwasser
Small commercial buildings (those with less than approximately 1000 m2 of total floor area) often do not have access to cost-effective automated fault detection and diagnosis (AFDD) tools for maintaining efficient building operations. AFDD tools based on...
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Samin Marzban, Christhina Candido, Arianna Brambilla, Ozgur Gocer, Diksha Vijapur and Christopher Jensen
The current +-0.5 PMV (Predicted Mean Vote) targets adopted by NABERS (National Australian Built Environment Rating System) is the practical range deemed acceptable for 90% acceptability for commercial buildings in Australia, however thermal comfort sati...
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Maria Luisa Beconcini, Paolo Formichi, Linda Giresini, Filippo Landi, Benedetta Puccini and Pietro Croce
The assessment of seismic performance of existing masonry structures is a key aspect for the risk mitigation strategies of existing buildings and preservation of historical heritage. The increasing availability of modelling approaches for the assessment ...
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Rand Talib and Nabil Nassif
According to EIA, the Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HAVC) systems account for about 25% of the U.S.?s total commercial building?s energy use. Therefore, advanced modeling and optimization methods of the system components and operation offer g...
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