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Faham Tahmasebinia, Ruihan He, Jiayang Chen, Shang Wang and Samad M. E. Sepasgozar
Addressing clients? demands, designers have become increasingly concerned about the operation phases of buildings and, more specifically, energy consumption. This issue has become more prominent as people realize that the Earth?s resources are limited an...
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Bader Alaifan and Elie Azar
A net-zero energy community (NZEC) is a promising paradigm that can directly contribute to a sustainable building sector and infrastructure. This research presents a unique empirical techno-economic optimization and evaluation approach for NZEC potential...
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Sergey Pogorelskiy and Imre Kocsis
One of the most energy-intensive facilities requiring a comprehensive and well-optimised cooling system is the data centre. Air containment across the data centre is a key thermal management and energy-saving strategy that enhances the performance of dat...
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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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Omar Doukari, Boubacar Seck, David Greenwood, Haibo Feng and Mohamad Kassem
Buildings have a significant impact on energy consumption and carbon emissions. Smart buildings are deemed to play a crucial role in improving the energy performance of buildings and cities. Managing a smart building requires the modelling of data concer...
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Mohamed H. Elnabawi, Aysha Alhumaidi, Bana Osman and Reem Alshehhi
Cool roofs are a long-term alternative for the creation of a building?s thermal comfort as they can reduce the energy required for cooling demands and mitigate the urban heat island effect, thus benefitting both buildings and cities. Interest in cool roo...
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Haonan Zhang, Haibo Feng, Kasun Hewage and Mehrdad Arashpour
Assessing the energy performance of existing residential buildings (ERB) has been identified as key to improving building energy efficiency and reducing associated greenhouse gas emissions in Canada. However, identifying optimal retrofit packages require...
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Mohamed Ghorab, Libing Yang, Evgueniy Entchev, Euy-Joon Lee, Eun-Chul Kang, Yu-Jin Kim, Sangmu Bae, Yujin Nam and Kwonye Kim
Hybrid renewable energy systems are subject to extensive research around the world and different designs have found their way to the market and have been commercialized. These systems usually employ multiple components, both renewable and conventional, c...
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Arsalan Majlesi, Hamid Asadi-Ghoozhdi, Omid Bamshad, Reza Attarnejad, Amir R. Masoodi and Mehdi Ghassemieh
Steel plate shear walls usually do not satisfy the strong-column weak-beam design criteria, leading to larger column sections. On the other hand, rigid frame structures are typically constructed in low-rise to mid-rise buildings built in locations prone ...
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José Pedro Carvalho, Manuela Almeida, Luís Bragança and Ricardo Mateus
Buildings are responsible for several negative impacts on the environment, most of them related to nonrenewable energy consumption, increasing the concern regarding buildings energy efficiency. In this context, computer software has been used to estimate...
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