M. A. Piette

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate an ambient, bidirectional thermal network, which uses a single circuit for both district heating and cooling, and they show that a simple model of a low-density, high-distribution loss network is more efficient than aggregated individual buildings if there is at least 1 unit of cooling energy per 5.7 units of simultaneous heating energy (or vice versa).

TL;DR: It is found that a difference of up to 20% in cooling cost for the cases studied can occur between the best performing model and the worst performing model, and the primary factors attributing to this were model structure and initial parameter guesses during parameter estimation of the model.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify monitoring and control needs for small and medium-sized commercial buildings and recommend possible solutions for small-and medium-size buildings, and document the needs and solutions for these buildings.

TL;DR: The role of a building information system in reducing building energy consumption as well as in providing demand response, is explored, and case studies of real use are presented.

TL;DR: In this article, a business as usual scenario for office equipment electricity use from industry forecasts of equipment sales, surveys of equipment densities by building type, measured data on wattage and usage by equipment type and projected lifetimes for equipment.