Occupant behavior has a significant influence on energy consumption in buildings because HVAC, lighting, equipment, and ventilation operations are often tied to occupancy-based controls. However, currently, the traditional ...

In this work, a new concept was explored for the optimization of heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems in buildings. The methods assume that only commonly trended sensor data would be available and that ...

In August 2004, the USEPA issued guidance on quantifying the air emission benefits from electric sector energy efficiency and renewable energy. Because there was no clear best strategy, the EPA’s guidance provided a framework ...

Currently, the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) is the most widely-used residential building energy code in the United States. Either the IECC or IECC with amendments has been adopted by 33 states. The latest ...

The primary goal of this study was to quantify the impact of Continuous Commissioning®^1 (CC®) since the inception of the process in the early 1990s using a comprehensive evaluation of the impact of CC® projects implemented ...

This paper analyzes the benefits of a geofencing and geolocational method for occupancy-based control in smart buildings. The research was conducted using the Google Maps Geolocation API that utilizes Wi-Fi points and ...

Although several of today’s Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools automatically produce default building thermal zoning in the required Building Energy Simulation (BES) electronic formats, these same models do not ...