Building performance improvement through low-energy renovation traditionally involves building diagnostics of the existing building, technology evaluation, selection and implementation. Effective diagnostics, post-retrofit assessment user engagement are essential to deliver as well achieving socio-economic environmental benefits at every stage project life cycle. User’s views often ignored when...

Recent years have seen an increasing need to invest in smart, energy-efficient technologies buildings improve health and convenience for occupants reduce energy consumption carbon emission impacts. Digitalization developments the information communication technology sector play a critical role improving efficiency of European market remaining current progress sustainable renewable systems. Ther...

Energy refurbishment of school buildings is a priority regarding both energy consumption in and improving comfort conditions for sensitive young occupants. During 2016–18, group teachers associates from the Faculty Architecture, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering University Belgrade participated project “Energy efficiency public buildings” cooperation with GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft...

Energy consumption in buildings represents approximately one-third of total energy produced globally. Towards efforts to reduce energy consumption of buildings while also improving its operational efficiency, building controls based on the Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) paradigm have been proposed and developed for use in building operations due to its key features such as learning and adaptation. T...

Understanding the effects of climate change on building indoor thermal conditions is importance for providing a comfortable environment occupants. Some multi-family dwellings have already been listed as heritage in China (hereinafter referred to apartments), limiting modifications envelope. However, effect comfort apartments with compact interior (i.e. without living room) built before 1980s di...

Energy delivery to households can count up to 50% of primary energy consumption in the United States. As proactive response to this classical engineering sentiment, much efforts made to address this energy delivery process, however, have one one caveat in common: targeting at conditioning only air, despite it being a proxy of occupant comfort. What if we rethink the process of how we delivery e...

With an increase in the interest in the energy conservation for buildings, and the emergence of many methods and easily-understandable approaches to it, energy conservation has now become the public’s main interest, as compared to in the past when it was only focused upon by experts. This study aims to help the occupants of a building to understand the energy efficiency and consumption of the b...

Energy savings in buildings have gained a lot of attention in recent years. Most of the research is focused on the building construction or alternative energy sources in order to minimize primary energy consumption of buildings. By contrast, this thesis deals with an advanced process control technique called model predictive control (MPC) that can take advantage of the knowledge of a building m...

The external walls are regarded as an important source for the thermal exchange between the outside and inside of a building. Despite the significance of building walls for energy savings, a large body of research has focused mainly on thermal comfort, environmental impacts, and economic costs of residential buildings. However, few researchers have addressed the thermal performance of common bu...