A perspective on tools for assessing the building sector’s greenhouse gas emissions and beyond

Autor: Fiona Greer, Paul Raftery, Gail Brager, Arpad Horvath

Publikováno v: Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, Vol 3, Iss 4, p 043001 (2023)

Increasing impacts from anthropogenic climate change, coupled with the rising need to provide safe and healthy buildings in which people can live, work, and play, necessitates methods and tools for decarbonizing the building sector. Governments, indu

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A Laboratory Test of an Offline-trained Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Heating Systems

Autor: C. Blad, S. Bøgh, C. Kallesøe, Paul Raftery

Publikováno v: Blad, C, Bøgh, S, Kallesøe, C & Raftery, P 2023, ' A Laboratory Test of an Offline-trained Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Heating Systems ', Applied Energy, vol. 337, 120807 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.120807

This paper presents a laboratory study of Offline-trained Reinforcement Learning (RL) control of a Heating Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) system. We conducted the experiments on a radiant floor heating system consisting of two temperature zo

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https://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/2da9d093-84d2-4819-bd6d-f901617dce4a

Query relaxation for portable brick-based applications

Autor: Marco Pritoni, Gabe Fierro, Imane Lahmam Bennani, Lazlo Paul, Marina Zafiris, Anand Krishnan Prakash, Carlos Duarte Roa, Paul Raftery

Publikováno v: BuildSys@SenSys
BuildSys '21: Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation

Semantic metadata standards pave the way for interoperability by providing building operators and application developers with common schemes to describe building resources. Applications can query building metadata models to retrieve the set of entiti

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3486611.3486671

Side-by-side laboratory comparison of radiant and all-air cooling: How natural ventilation cooling and heat gain characteristics impact space heat extraction rates and daily thermal energy use

Autor: Jonathan Woolley, Stefano Schiavon, Fred Bauman, Paul Raftery

Publikováno v: Energy and Buildings. 200:68-85

For radiant cooling to maintain equivalent comfort conditions as all-air cooling it must remove more heat from a space, the peak space heat extraction rate must be larger, and the peak must occur earlier. In this article, we assess how the magnitudes

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2019.07.020

Occupant comfort and behavior: High-resolution data from a 6-month field study of personal comfort systems with 37 real office workers

Autor: David E. Culler, Gabe Fierro, Fred Bauman, Joyce Kim, Paul Raftery, Michael P. Andersen, Hui Zhang, Edward Arens

Publikováno v: Kim, Joyce; Bauman, Fred; Raftery, Paul; Arens, Edward; Zhang, Hui; Fierro, Gabe; et al.(2019). Occupant comfort and behavior: High-resolution data from a 6-month field study of personal comfort systems with 37 real office workers. Building and Environment, 148, 348-360. doi: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2018.11.012. UC Berkeley: Center for the Built Environment. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/9vv4z3gg

Personal Comfort Systems (PCS) provide individual occupants local heating and cooling to meet their comfort needs without affecting others in the same space. It saves energy by relaxing ambient temperature requirements for the HVAC system. Aside from

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2018.11.012