Recent natural disasters such as hurricanes Harvey and Maria have caused great disruption to the electric grid system. Additionally, government authorities set ambitious goals reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Thus, there is a growing interest in making power systems more resilient while reducing their carbon footprint. In this work, we used HOMER Grid software model behind-the-meter microgrids ...

Commercial sector sport organisations increasingly lead innovation in delivery and consumption. Despite this, the ways which contributes to community capacity building sport-for-development has only ever been considered from public third perspectives. Using a qualitative dual case study approach commercial surf park context, this research examined how can contribute building. The findings demon...

The integration of weather forecasts and demand prediction into the energy management system of buildings is usually achieved using a model-based predictive control. The performance of such control techniques strongly depends on the accuracy of the thermal model which describes the building behavior. However, increasing the model complexity results in a reduced computational efficiency of the o...

Commercial buildings often experience faults that produce undesirable behavior in building systems. Building faults waste energy, decrease occupants’ comfort, and increase operating costs. Automated fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) tools for buildings help building owners discover and identify the root causes of faults in building systems, equipment, and controls. Proper implementation of FD...

Commercial buildings often experience faults that produce undesirable behavior in building systems. Building faults waste energy, decrease occupants’ comfort, and increase operating costs. Automated fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) tools for buildings help building owners discover and identify the root causes of faults in building systems, equipment, and controls. Proper implementation of FD...

The paper presents the description and initial evaluation of a number of commercial large scale buildings situated across Germany. The study has been carried out within the framework of the demonstration program SolarBau, which has been initiated and funded by the German Ministry of Economy and Technology. The program funds up to 25 demonstration buildings and their collective evaluation. Fundi...

In this work, we propose new automation tools to process 2D building geometry data for effective communication and timely response to critical events in commercial buildings. Given the scale and complexity of commercial buildings, robust and visually rich tools are needed during an emergency. Our data processing pipeline consists of three major components, (1) adjacency graph construction, repr...

The conjugation of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Grid paradigm with applications based on commercial software is one among the major challenges of today e-Infrastructures. Several research communities from either industry or academia need to run high parallel applications based on licensed

Previous studies of commercial software enterprises have employed industry-level analyses, or have focused on major players in the industry. There is, therefore, a dearth of in-depth research on small-to-medium software enterprises (SMSE). The need to understand the institutional contexts and firm-specific capabilities of such firms is important, as they account for over 90% of software enterpr...