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Development of a new multi-stage building energy model calibration methodology and validation in a public library

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In this article, the authors proposed a novel ground-breaking calibration methodology that divides the entire building into different sub-models and calibrates them separately to obtain an accurate model, which achieved better results than those obtained with a global calibration.
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This article is published in Energy and Buildings.The article was published on 2017-07-01. It has received 45 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: ASHRAE 90.1 & TRNSYS.

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Validation of calibrated energy models: Common errors

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the typical mistakes made, as these errors could produce a false belief that the models used are calibrated, which can lead to false beliefs about the accuracy of building energy models.
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Building simulation: Ten challenges

TL;DR: Ten challenges that highlight some of the most important issues in building performance simulation, covering the full building life cycle and a wide range of modeling scales are presented.
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Improving prediction performance for indoor temperature in public buildings based on a novel deep learning method

TL;DR: Results show that the proposed novel LSTM model has slight advantages in level indoor temperature prediction performance comparing with other common machine learning methods, however, it outperforms other models including original L STM in terms of directional prediction accuracy, and accurately predicts the indoor temperature variation trend.
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Climate control in broiler houses: A thermal model for the calculation of the energy use and indoor environmental conditions

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a simulation model based on a customization of the hourly model of ISO 13790 for the estimation of the energy consumption due to climate control of broiler houses.
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A real industrial building: Modeling, calibration and Pareto optimization of energy retrofit

TL;DR: The research provides the Pareto optimization of building retrofit minimizing primary energy consumption and global cost for two different scenarios as regards the access to public incentives.
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A review on buildings energy consumption information

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed available information concerning energy consumption in buildings, and particularly related to HVAC systems, and compared different types of building types and end uses in different countries.
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EnergyPlus: creating a new-generation building energy simulation program

TL;DR: EnergyPlus as discussed by the authors is a building energy simulation tool that includes a number of innovative simulation features such as variable time steps, user-configurable modular systems that are integrated with a heat and mass balance-based zone simulation, and input and output data structures tailored to facilitate third party module and interface development.
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A review of sensitivity analysis methods in building energy analysis

TL;DR: In this article, the typical steps of implementation of sensitivity analysis in building analysis are described, and a number of practical issues in applying sensitivity analysis are also discussed, such as the determination of input variations, the choice of building energy programs, how to reduce computational time for energy models.
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A review of methods to match building energy simulation models to measured data

TL;DR: A detailed review of current approaches to model development and calibration is presented, highlighting the importance of uncertainty in the calibration process and the various analytical and mathematical/statistical tools employed by practitioners to date.
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Calibration of building energy models for retrofit analysis under uncertainty

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a scalable, probabilistic methodology that can support large scale investments in energy retrofit of buildings while accounting for uncertainty, based on Bayesian calibration of normative energy models.
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