Energy conservation

Building occupancy forecasting: A systematical and critical review

Indoor environment construction for occupants has high energy consumption; as such, occupancy plays a noteworthy role in the complete life cycle phase of buildings, including design, operation, and retrofitting. In the past few years, building …

Building categorization revisited: A clustering-based approach to using smart meter data for building energy benchmarking

Current building energy benchmarking systems categorize buildings into peer groups by static characteristics such as climate zones and building types, which cannot account for the huge variation in building operations. Grouping buildings with diverse …