Telework ~or telecommuting! has been proposed as a way of reducing transportation externalities such as congestion and passenger vehicle energy use. While there is contention among sources about the secondary induced transportation effects, many studies have estimated net benefits as a result of transportation reductions. Analyses including effects from shifts in commercial and residential buil...

this study focuses on the forecasting of energy demands of residential and commercial sectors using linear and exponential functions. the coefficients were obtained from genetic and particle swarm optimization (pso) algorithms. totally, 72 different scenarios with various inputs were investigated. consumption data in respect of residential and commercial sectors in iran were collected from the ...

OBJECTIVE The authors estimated the number of violations of a university policy that prohibited smoking within 25 ft of all campus buildings. PARTICIPANTS The project was conducted by 13 student researchers from the university and a member of the local public health department. METHODS Students quantified cigarette butts that were littered in a 30-day period inside the prohibited smoking ar...

Abstract This study presents the development, analysis and assessment of residential lighting load profile using computational intelligence based modelling Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) and Neural network (NN) models for prediction (forecasting) and evaluation of lighting load and initiatives. Factors considered in the development of the models include natural lighting, occupanc...

In Switzerland and most other developed countries, the building sector is one of the most important sources of energy consumption and its related adverse environmental impacts. As the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the abandonment of nuclear power have become key policy objectives, considerable e ort is undertaken to reduce energy demand, particularly in buildings, and to expand the ...

Commissioning is arguably the single most cost-effective strategy for reducing energy, costs, and greenhouse gas emissions in buildings today. Although commissioning has earned increased recognition in recent years, it remains an enigmatic practice whose visibility severely lags its potential. The application of commissioning to new buildings ensures that they deliver or exceed the performance ...

by identifying the damage index of a structure, in addition to a correct understanding from real behavior of the structure, the required criterion for strengthening would be given. researchers have given many relations for determination of damage index but such relations have been based upon laboratory methods which challenge their usage in a broad term. in this paper two new methods are given ...

Abstract Energy system modeling has been following the energy transition to investigate challenges and opportunities of future systems on all grid levels. Necessary input for sector-coupled models are residential electricity heat demand curves. The increasing importance distribution grids their requires profiles in high spatial resolution.This paper presents a method assign pre-generated curves...