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Amsterdam2023OccuVAE: Integrating unsupervised occupancy inference in data-driven energy modeling for human-centric operation
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Association for Computing Machinery2023Vegetation effects on climate and building energy demand in cities
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2023Influence of outdoor air pollution on European residential ventilative cooling potential
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ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023Building ventilation and outdoor air pollution: Implications for health, comfort and energy
As humans spend most of their time indoors, indoor air quality (IAQ) significantly impacts their health. In parallel, building ventilation consumes significant energy, contributing to climate change. However, the relationships between the building ventilat ...
EPFL2023Traversing Time Dependent Light Fields for Daylight Glare Evaluation
To understand how daylight gives shape and life to architectural spaces, whether existing or imagined, requires quantifying its dynamism and energy. Maintaining these details presents a challenge to simulation and analysis methods that flatten data into di ...
EPFL2023Taking a step back from glass towers facades to make them compatible with the 2050 targets
Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Bernard Paule
Skyscrapers or glass towers are an extremely common model throughout the world. In the current context of climate change and resource depletion, we need to develop new postures towards these objects, especially for existing buildings that are becoming obso ...
2023From domestic energy demand to household activity patterns
Michel Bierlaire, Timothy Michael Hillel, Negar Rezvany
Residential building energy usage can be considered as being derived from the activity patterns of individuals inside the home. As such an activity-based energy demand model that can create in-home energy usage profiles from household activity patterns is ...
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