Haiyan Yan

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review thermal comfort research work and discuss the implications for building energy efficiency, and propose to increase the summer set point temperature in order to save energy in buildings.

TL;DR: In this paper, a subjective questionnaire survey in terms of thermal sensation votes (TSVs) and objective on-site measurements were carried out to evaluate the thermal comfort conditions in residential buildings.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the influencing mechanism of the outdoor temperature on the indoor air temperature and thermal adaptation in winter, and find that the indoor temperature is affected by the outdoor climate to some extent.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the literature on human thermal comfort in the built environment is presented, which includes standards, indoor experiments in controlled environments, indoor field studies in educational, office, residential and other building types, productivity, human physiological models, outdoor and semi-outdoor field studies.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the works related to these two strategies is presented and issues pertaining to sustainable development implications and further research work required are also highlighted, including life cycle cost and environmental impacts, climate change and social policy issues.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate two newly developed stochastic models for time series prediction of energy consumption, namely, CRBM and Factored Conditional Restricted Boltzmann Machine (FCRBM).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the potential of using occupancy information to realize a more energy efficient building climate control, focusing on Swiss office buildings equipped with Integrated Room Automation (IRA), i.e. the integrated control of Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning (HVAC) as well as lighting and blind positioning of a building zone or room.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an integrated toolkit designed to assist energy managers at different stages of their activity relating to systematic energy management in buildings, focusing on the applicability of the integrated tool-kit in the building industry.