Publications: Building Technology and Urban Systems Division

2023

Nagy, Zoltan, Gregor P Henze, Sourav Dey, Javier Arroyo, Lieve Helsen, Xiangyu Zhang, Bingqing Chen, Kadir Amasyali, Kuldeep Kurte, Ahmed Zamzam, Helia Zandi, Ján Drgoňa, Matias Quintana, Steven McCullogh, June Young Park, Han Li, Tianzhen Hong, Silvio Brandi, Giuseppe Pinto, Alfonso Capozzoli, Draguna Vrabie, Mario Bergés, Kingsley Nweye, Thibault Marzullo, and Andrey Bernstein."Ten questions concerning reinforcement learning for building energy management."Building and Environment (2023) 110435. DOI
Perera, A.T.D, Kavan Javanroodi, Dasaraden Mauree, Vahid M Nik, Pietro Florio, Tianzhen Hong, and Deliang Chen."Challenges resulting from urban density and climate change for the EU energy transition."Nature Energy 8.4 (2023) 397 - 412. DOI
Perera, A.T.D, Kenichi Soga, Yujie Xu, Peter Nico, and Tianzhen Hong."Enhancing flexibility for climate change using seasonal energy storage (aquifer thermal energy storage) in distributed energy systems."Applied Energy 340 (2023) 120957. DOI
Perera, A.T.D, Kenichi Soga, Yujie Xu, Peter Nico, and Tianzhen Hong."Enhancing flexibility for climate change using seasonal energy storage (aquifer thermal energy storage) in distributed energy systems."Applied Energy 340 (2023) 120957. DOI
Lin, Ziqi, Tianzhen Hong, Xiaodong Xu, Jiayu Chen, and Wei Wang."Evaluating energy retrofits of historic buildings in a university campus using an urban building energy model that considers uncertainties."Sustainable Cities and Society 95 (2023) 104602. DOI
Hong, Tianzhen, Sang Hoon Lee, Wanni Zhang, Kaiyu Sun, Barry Hooper, and Janghyun Kim."Nexus of electrification and energy efficiency retrofit of commercial buildings at the district scale."Sustainable Cities and Society 95 (2023) 104608. DOI
O'Brien, William, Farhang Tahmasebi, and Tianzhen Hong."International review of occupant aspects of building energy codes and standards."ASHRAE 65 (2023).
Coleman, Philip, and Christine Walker."Recommended vs. Actual Escalation Rates For ESPCs: Is the Guidance Good?."International Journal of Energy Management 5.1 (2023).
Sheng, Maggie, Michael Reiner, Kaiyu Sun, and Tianzhen Hong."Assessing thermal resilience of an assisted living facility during heat waves and cold snaps with power outages."Building and Environment 230 (2023) 110001. DOI
Mata, Omar, Juana Isabel Méndez, Pedro Ponce, Therese Peffer, Alan K Meier, and Arturo Molina."Energy Savings in Buildings Based on Image Depth Sensors for Human Activity Recognition."Energies 16.3 (2023) 1078. DOI
Perera, A.T.D, Bingyu Zhao, Zhe Wang, Kenichi Soga, and Tianzhen Hong."Optimal design of microgrids to improve wildfire resilience for vulnerable communities at the wildland-urban interface."Applied Energy 335 (2023) 120744. DOI
Coraci, Davide, Silvio Brandi, Tianzhen Hong, and Alfonso Capozzoli."Online transfer learning strategy for enhancing the scalability and deployment of deep reinforcement learning control in smart buildings."Applied Energy 333 (2023) 120598. DOI
Perera, A.T.D, and Tianzhen Hong."Vulnerability and resilience of urban energy ecosystems to extreme climate events: A systematic review and perspectives."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 173 (2023) 113038. DOI
Kim, Donghun, and Sang woo Ham."ActiveBAS: A Low-cost, Scalable Control Solution for Grid-Interactive Small and Medium Sized Commercial Buildings (CRADA Final Report)." (2023). DOI
Lee, Sang Hoon, and Ronnen M Levinson."Cool envelope benefits in future typical weather and heatwave conditions for single-family homes in Los Angeles." (2023). DOI
Hart, Robert, Stephen Fisher, and Stephen Morse."Guidelines for Determining the Load Resistance of Thin-Glass Triple-Pane Insulating Glass Unit Configurations." (2023). DOI
Gautier, Antoine, Michael Wetter, Jianjun Hu, and Hubertus Tummescheit."HVAC and Control Templates for the Modelica Buildings Library."15th International Modelica Conference 2023, Aachen, October 9-11Proceedings of the 15th International Modelica Conference 2023, Aachen, October 9-11 204 (2023). DOI
Levinson, Ronnen M, Mansour Alhazmi, Jackson Becce, Andre Desjarlais, Haley E Gilbert, Greg Kats, Jacob Miller, Emily Morin, David J Sailor, and Sarah Schneider."United States Cool Surfaces Deployment Plan." (2023). DOI

2022

Li, Han, and Tianzhen Hong."A semantic ontology for representing and quantifying energy flexibility of buildings."Advances in Applied Energy 8 (2022) 100113. DOI
Moudio, Marie Pelagie Elimbi, Richard Bolin, Alberta Carpenter, Samantha Bench Reese, Arman Shehabi, and Prakash Rao."Characterizing manufacturing sector disruptions with targeted mitigation strategiesAbstract."Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability 2.4 (2022) 042001. DOI
Liu, Jingjing, Rongxin Yin, Lili Yu, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Jiarong Xie, Tianzhen Hong, Monica Neukomm, and Peter Schwartz."Defining and applying an electricity demand flexibility benchmarking metrics framework for grid-interactive efficient commercial buildings."Advances in Applied Energy 8 (2022) 100107. DOI
Liu, Jingjing, Steve Windergren, Jaime Kolln, Sonny Xue, Ted Bohn, and Richard E Brown."State of Common Grid Services Definitions." (2022).
Luo, Na, Xuan Luo, Mohammad Mortezazadeh, Maher Albettar, Wanni Zhang, Dongxue Zhan, Liangzhu Wang, and Tianzhen Hong."A data schema for exchanging information between urban building energy models and urban microclimate models in coupled simulations."Journal of Building Performance Simulation (2022) 1 - 18. DOI
Kintner-Meyer, Michael, Guenter Conzelmann, Hyekyung Clarisse Kim, Nan Zhou, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Paelina DeStephano, Siddarth Durga, Amgad Elgowainy, George Giannakidis, Bruce Hamilton, Amit Kanudia, Jing Ke, Nina Khanna, Page Kyle, Virginie E Letschert, Hongyou Lu, Haewon McJeon, Timothy Reber, Daniella Rough, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Michael Westphal, and Evelyn Wright."Preliminary Analysis of Decarbonization Pathways for Five Countries: The Net Zero World Initiative Report Series – 01."The Net Zero World Initiative Report Series (2022). DOI
Gautier, Antoine, Michael Wetter, and Matthias Sulzer."Resilient cooling through geothermal district energy system."Applied Energy 325 (2022) 119880. DOI