Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, Ahead of Print. This paper describes a heat pump investigation for GreenSCIES (GS), a fifth Generation district heating and cooling (5DHC) network in Islington, London. The paper describes the Gree…
Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, Ahead of Print. In its simplest form, a Closed Cavity Façade (CCF) consists of a double or triple glazing unit (DGU or TGU) on the inner layer and single glazing on the outer one, forming a sealed …
Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, Ahead of Print. Data-driven building operation and maintenance research such as metadata inference, fault detection and diagnosis, occupant-centric controls (OCCs), and non-invasive load monitoring…
Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, Ahead of Print. Smart thermostats allow continuous learning, remote scheduling and control of indoor temperature. This paper empirically evaluates indoor environmental conditions, occupant experien…
Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, Ahead of Print. Buildings’ environmental conditions were changed drastically around the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic hazards and restrictions. New social distance rules and organizational cha…
Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, Ahead of Print. The traditional elevator system design practice is to calculate the round trip time (RTT) and associated parameters of pure incoming traffic during up-peak, followed by real-time co…
Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, Ahead of Print. The number of building occupants is an important indicator for predicting building energy consumption and developing control strategies for building automation. However, most occupa…
Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, Ahead of Print. A comprehensive understanding of occupant comfort in mixed-mode (MM) buildings is crucial for the design of MM buildings which are being proposed as a low-energy solution to combat …
Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, Ahead of Print. In residential air conditioning systems, outdoor units are often installed in the recesses of building facades and shaded by louvres; however, different unit installation positions …
Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, Ahead of Print. In the residential building sector, the use of floating floors is a common practice which increasingly used to reduce vibrations and impact noise. These are usually made from indust…