selected scholarly activity
-
chapters
- Assessing the Thermal Resilience of Buildings Using Multiple Outage Events. Environmental Science and Engineering. 2633-2641. 2023
- Survey Analysis to Better Quantify Building Thermal Performance Using Reliability, Resilience, Robustness, and Vulnerability. Environmental Science and Engineering. 2643-2651. 2023
- Building performance optimization of net zero-energy buildings. 175-203. 2015
-
conferences
- From Static to Dynamic: Revolutionizing Electrical Emission Factors with ARIMA Data-Driven Models 2024
- From Energy Savings to GHG Emissions: A Temporally Aligned Approach for Building Operations. ASHRAE Transactions. 404-412. 2024
- From Static to Dynamic: Improving Scope 2 Emission Factor Predictions with ARIMA Data-Driven Models. ASHRAE Transactions. 182-191. 2024
- Evaluating occupants willingness-To-pay to avoid consequences of extreme climate change weather events: Lessons learned from the ottawa 2022 derecho. ASHRAE Transactions. 315-322. 2023
- A Framework for a Multi-sourced, Data-Driven Building Energy Management Toolkit. ASHRAE Transactions. 217-226. 2022
- A Framework for Integrating Reliability, Robustness, Resilience, and Vulnerability to Assess System Adaptivity. Volume 13: Safety Engineering, Risk, and Reliability Analysis; Research Posters. 2021
- A Simplified Building Controls Environment with a Reinforcement Learning Application. Building Simulation Conference Proceedings. 956-964. 2020
- Calibration Of An Historic Masonry Building Using Measured Temperature And Heat Flux Data. Building Simulation Conference Proceedings. 351-358. 2020
- Detailed Modelling of the Masonry Unit-Mortar Interface Using Hygrothermal Simulation. XV International Conference on Durability of Building Materials and Components. eBook of Proceedings. 937-944. 2020
- Two-dimensional hygrothermal modelling of masonry walls accounting for imperfections at the masonry joint. E3S Web of Conferences. 08003-08003. 2020
- Planning and Implementing Low Carbon-Communities in Canada. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. 012126-012126. 2019
- Energy Performance, Comfort, and Lessons Learned from an Institutional Building Designed for Net Zero Energy. ASHRAE Transactions. 668-681. 2019
- Energy performance, comfort, and lessons learned from an institutional building designed for net zero energy. ASHRAE Transactions. 682-695. 2019
- Using text analytics on operator logbooks for performance benchmarking: A case study. ASHRAE Transactions. 398-406. 2019
- Energy Modeling Methodology for Community Master Planning. ASHRAE Transactions. 185-193. 2018
- Model-Based Control of a Hydronic Radiant Slab for Peak Load Reduction. Building Simulation Conference Proceedings. 1351-1359. 2017
- Optimization under Economic Uncertainty: A Methodology to Determine the Effects of Solar Variability on Energy and Economics. ASHRAE Transactions. 244-253. 2017
- Optimization under Economic Uncertainty Using a Net Zero Energy Commercial Office Case Study. ASHRAE Transactions. 444-454. 2016
- Multi-objective optimal design of a near net zero energy solar house. ASHRAE Transactions. 224-235. 2014
- An Optimization Methodology To Evaluate The Effect Size Of Incentives On Energy-cost Optimal Curves. Building Simulation Conference Proceedings. 1844-1851. 2013
- Optimization of net-zero energy solar communities: Effect of uncertainty due to occupant factors. 30th ISES Biennial Solar World Congress 2011, SWC 2011. 1523-1528. 2011
- Optimization of Net-Zero Energy Solar Communities: Effect of Uncertainty due to Occupant Factors. Proceedings of the ISES Solar World Congress 2011. 1-6. 2011
- Achieving Faster Building Energy Model Optimization through Selective Zone Elimination
- Quantification of high temporal and spatial scale GHG emissions from electricity generation: method and case study
-
journal articles
- Do peak energy loads and peak GHG emissions correlate in buildings? Insights from emission duration curves and emission event duration curves analysis. Journal of Cleaner Production. 459:142438-142438. 2024
- How experiencing extreme climate change events can impact people's willingness to pay during a power outage: a case study from the Ottawa, ON 2022 derecho. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering. 51:461-476. 2024
- Weather data analysis and building performance assessment during extreme climate events: A Canadian AMY weather file data set. Genomics Data. 52:110036-110036. 2024
- A novel method for quantifying risks to climate change events using conditional value at risk: a multi-unit residential building case study in London, Ontario. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure. 9:72-90. 2024
- Spatio-temporal electrical grid emission factors effects on calculated GHG emissions of buildings in mixed-grid environments. Science and Technology for the Built Environment. 30:37-50. 2024
- Adaptation to extreme weather events using pre-conditioning: a model-based testing of novel resilience algorithms on a residential case study. Journal of Building Performance Simulation. ahead-of-print:1-22. 2024
- Integrated community energy and harvesting systems: A climate action strategy for cold climates. Applied Energy. 346:121291-121291. 2023
- The impact of clustering strategies to site integrated community energy and harvesting systems on electrical demand and regional GHG reductions. Energy Conversion and Management. 288:117151-117151. 2023
- The impact of the thermal distribution network operating temperature and system design on different communities' energy profiles. Sustainable Cities and Society. 94:104540-104540. 2023
- Does a knowledge gap contribute to the performance gap? Interviews with building operators to identify how data-driven insights are interpreted. Energy and Buildings. 268:112238-112238. 2022
- Impact of measured data frequency on commercial building energy model calibration for retrofit analysis. Science and Technology for the Built Environment. 28:628-644. 2022
- On modelling of resiliency events using building performance simulation: a multi-objective approach. Journal of Building Performance Simulation. 15:307-322. 2022
- Hygrothermal modelling of historic rubble masonry walls: Accounting for geometric and compositional variability. Journal of Building Engineering. 48:103929-103929. 2022
- Balancing Trade-offs between Deep Energy Retrofits and Heritage Conservation: A Methodology and Case Study. International Journal of Architectural Heritage. 16:97-116. 2022
- A framework for a multi-source, data-driven building energy management toolkit. Energy and Buildings. 250:111255-111255. 2021
- Modeling of thermal energy sharing in integrated energy communities with micro-thermal networks. Energy and Buildings. 248:111170-111170. 2021
- Benchmarking operational performance of buildings by text mining tenant surveys. Science and Technology for the Built Environment. 27:741-755. 2021
- A methodology for hygrothermal modelling of imperfect masonry interfaces. Journal of Building Physics. 44:485-509. 2021
- Assessing Durability of Historic Masonry Walls with Calibrated Energy Models and Hygrothermal Modeling. International Journal of Architectural Heritage. 15:390-406. 2021
- Spatially and temporally sensitive consumption-based emission factors from mixed-use electrical grids for building electrical use. Energy and Buildings. 224:110249-110249. 2020
- A method for extracting performance metrics using work-order data. Science and Technology for the Built Environment. 26:414-425. 2020
- Energy and comfort performance benefits of early detection of building sensor and actuator faults. Building Services Engineering Research and Technology. 39:652-666. 2018
- Distributed evolutionary algorithm for co-optimization of building and district systems for early community energy masterplanning. Applied Soft Computing. 63:14-22. 2018
- Methodology for energy and economic modeling of net zero energy communities. ASHRAE Transactions. 121:462-470. 2015
- A methodology for identifying the influence of design variations on building energy performance. Journal of Building Performance Simulation. 7:411-426. 2014
- An information driven hybrid evolutionary algorithm for optimal design of a Net Zero Energy House. Solar Energy. 96:128-139. 2013
- A Study of Design Tools and Processes Through a Near Net-Zero Energy House Redesign. Proceedings of the EuroSun 2010 Conference. 1-8. 2010
- Design Optimization Methodology for a Near Net Zero Energy Demonstration Home. Proceedings of the EuroSun 2010 Conference. 1-8. 2010
- APPLYING A DESIGN METHODOLOGY FOR A NET-ZERO ENERGY HOUSE TO EVALUATE DESIGN PROCESSES AND TOOLS
-
other
- EBSCOhost \textbar 122029293 \textbar Optimization under Economic Uncertainty: A Methodology to Determine the Effects of Solar Variability on Energy and Economics.
- EBSCOhost \textbar 96045424 \textbar Multi-Objective Optimal Design of a Near Net Zero Energy Solar House.
- OR-16-035 – Optimization under Economic Uncertainty Using a Net Zero Energy Commercial Office Case Study
-
preprints