Plug load energy consumption represents up to 40% of the total energy consumption in efficient buildings. Occupant behavior has a huge impact on plug load energy consumption. Studies have shown that up to 40% plug load energy savings can be achieved through users’ engagement in sustainable behaviors. To save energy from plug loads, either a company can replace their appliances with more efficie...

Nowadays, the research and innovation of smart buildings has been gaining increasingly attentions in building construction and management society. Among a variety of emerging technologies, demand driven HVAC (i.e., heating, ventilation and air conditioning) operation is promising to significantly reduce the building operation cost, and ultimately to achieve sustainable smart buildings. The “Int...

Typically the aim in the construction process is to calculate the energy, space and cost efficiency in the design phase. These factors’ influence on decision making extends to the whole building process. How these decisions affect the use of the building and user satisfaction as well as maintenance is still not that well understood. This study analyses different schools and day care centers and...

The Cloud Computing model leverages virtualization of computing resources allowing customers to provision resources on-demand on a pay-as-you-go basis. During recent years, the power consumption of datacenters in cloud environment attracted researchers. Optimization of energy consumption can be performed by different methods including virtual machine (VM) consolidation. This technique can reduc...

For the purpose of improving living environment in chill region of China, reducing building energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, this paper studies general layout, shape, plane, and envelop of public buildings in depth, and puts forward corresponding design strategies on the basis of systematical analysis on geographical features, climate characteristics, economic level, technology ...

Reducing energy use in buildings is a critical component of meeting carbon reduction commitments. There are several ways of accomplishing this goal, each of which emphasizes actions by a different set of stakeholders. Much of the work in this area follows a physical, technical and economic model of the built environment (Lutzenhiser, 1993). In this scenario, architects, engineers and efficiency...

For over the past several decades, there has been a great concern about energy crisis and lackof non-renewable resources. Residential buildings take more than 25% of the total energy consumption and morethan 75% of energy consumption in these buildings is for heating, cooling and hot sanitary water. On the other hand,traditional buildings of Iran were designed according to ecological conditions...

Building energy consumption in China recently surpassed the US building consumption, and it is expected to increase significantly in the next decade pushed by the continuous population and urbanization increase. In response to that situation, the Chinese government introduced a series of building energy codes and rating systems to assess and enhance the building energy performance. The purpose ...