ASME Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities: Recent submissions
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Cost-Effectiveness and Resiliency Evaluation of Net-Zero Energy U.S. Residential Communities
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)In this paper, a resiliency analysis is carried out to assess the energy, economic, and power outage survivability benefits of efficient and net-zero energy communities. The analysis addresses the appropriate steps to ... -
Energy Demand Reduction in the Built Environment Using Shallow Geothermal Integrated Energy Systems: Part II—Hybrid Ground Source Heat Pump for Building Heating
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The research collection aims at finding the various possible opportunities for the effective integration of shallow geothermal energy (SGE) to decrease the energy demand in the built environment and to reduce emission ... -
Energy Demand Reduction in the Built Environment Using Shallow Geothermal Integrated Energy Systems—A Comprehensive Review: Part I. Design Consideration of Ground Heat Exchanger
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The research collection aims at finding the various possible opportunities for the effective integration of shallow geothermal energy (SGE) to decrease the energy demand in the built environment and to reduce emission ... -
Special Issue: Electrification of the Building Heating Sector
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Human society is at a defining moment to take actions to avoid the most significant health, environmental, and economic impacts resulting from global climate change. To meet the goal set by the United Nations Framework ... -
Retrofitting for Improving Energy Efficiency: The Embodied Energy Relevance for Buildings’ Thermal Insulation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Envelope insulation is a well-known strategy to improve buildings’ energy efficiency. This paper considers two archetypes of an apartment block typology largely diffused in the Italian building stock and evaluates the ... -
Model Predictive Control-Based Hierarchical Control of a Multi-Zone Commercial HVAC System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This paper presents a novel architecture for model predictive control (MPC)-based indoor climate control of multi-zone buildings to provide energy efficiency. Unlike prior works, we do not assume the availability of a ... -
Mitigation Options to Reduce Peak Air Temperature and Air-Conditioning Demand in the Context of a Warming Climate for a Tropical Coastal City
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Air conditioning (AC) demand has recently grown to about 10% of total electricity globally, and the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts that the cooling requirement for buildings globally increases by three-fold by ... -
Effect of Retrofit Scenarios on Energy Performance and Indoor Thermal Comfort of a Typical Single-Family House in Different Climates of Morocco
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This paper aims at identifying the impact of three retrofit scenarios of a typical single-family house on its energy performance and its indoor thermal comfort in several climates. Two of these scenarios are based on the ... -
Performance of Existing Methods in Baselining Demand Response From Commercial Building HVAC Fans
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Commercial buildings generally have large thermal inertia and thus can provide services to power grids (e.g., demand response (DR)) by modulating their heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. Shifting ... -
Impacts of Air-Conditioning Equipment Sizing on Energy Performance of US Office Buildings
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The paper summarizes the results of systematic and comprehensive analysis to investigate the impacts of inadequate sizing air-conditioning (AC) systems on the overall energy consumption of medium and large office buildings ... -
Reflecting on Impacts of COVID19 on Sustainable Buildings and Cities
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The pandemic of Coronavirus Disease or COVID19 has disrupted all aspects of our lives in many ways since it was first detected in the early part of the year 2020; personal and professional lives were impacted including ... -
Model of a System-Wide Domestic Hot-Water Distribution System in a Multi-Resident High-Rise Building
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)To reduce the environmental impact and cost, energy and water consumption of multi-resident buildings should be improved while ensuring resident comfort. Inefficient mixing of hot and cold-water streams and a non-optimal ... -
A Time-Series Rank Ordering Control System Data-Driven Fault Detection Approach for HVAC Systems in Buildings
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)About 41% of total energy consumption in the United States of year 2014 is used for heating and air conditioning, which is about 40 quadrillion (40 × 1015) British thermal units (BTUs). Despite the fact that people have ... -
Numerical Investigation of Smoke Propagation in Road Tunnels Caused by a Burned Truck
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The efficiency of smoke extraction for longitudinal and transverse tunnel ventilation systems was studied in this paper by conducting numerical simulations using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The smoke was assumed ... -
A Computationally Efficient, High-Fidelity Testbed for Building Climate Control
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Advanced building climate control systems have the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy costs, but more research is needed to bring these systems to market. A key component of building ... -
Energy Efficiency Improvement in K-12 Schools: A Case Study in Florida
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)K-12 schools are responsible for over 1.4% of the total annual energy consumption in the United States. In a collaboration between Florida Institute of Technology and Brevard Public Schools (BPS), three schools are identified ... -
Editorial for Special Issue: Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings—Part 2
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This issue of the ASME Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities (JESBC) is fully dedicated to peer-reviewed papers specific to technologies and applications of Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings (GEBs). ... -
A Framework for Optimal Placement of Rooftop Photovoltaic: Maximizing Solar Production and Operational Cost Savings in Residential Communities
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Optimizing the placement of photovoltaic (PV) panels on residential buildings has the potential to significantly increase energy efficiency benefits to both homeowners and communities. Strategic PV placement can lower ... -
Transitioning From Net-Zero Energy Homes to Carbon-Neutral Grid-Connected Communities
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In this study, optimal carbon-neutral designs are evaluated for grid-connected communities that include net-zero energy (NZE) homes in Boulder, CO. Specifically, the economic and environmental benefits are assessed for ... -
Feasibility Assessment of a Grid-Connected Carbon-Neutral Community in Midland, Texas
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Midland, Texas is one of the fastest-growing urban population centers in the country and has one of the lowest costs of electricity. This study aims to assess the potential of a grid-connected carbon-neutral community in ...