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Simulation-Based Lighting Control Algorithm: Integrating Daylight and Lighting Simulation for Daylight-Linked Lighting Control

Reducing lighting electricity consumption while maintaining an acceptable illuminance level is critical to achieving environmental sustainability and net-zero energy buildings. Lighting control systems have become widely adopted in commercial buildings, aiming to automatically adjust the electrical lighting levels depending on daylight penetration. Two simulation-based daylight-linked lighting control algorithms (switch on/off and dimming control) have been … Continue reading Simulation-Based Lighting Control Algorithm: Integrating Daylight and Lighting Simulation for Daylight-Linked Lighting Control

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Microclimate and Building Energy Performance

Areas in redlined neighborhoods associated with very low tree canopy cover are hotter than their greener and wealthier counterparts in Brentwood and Los Feliz. Hotter surroundings include high outdoor heat stress due to exposure to direct shortwave radiation and increased building cooling loads, which impact the health and wellbeing of residents. The heat mitigation due … Continue reading Microclimate and Building Energy Performance

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BIM+AR in Architecture: A Building Maintenance Application for a Smart Phone

Revit, 3ds Max, Unity 3D, and other software were used as experiments to model the elements in the wall based on the AR foundation and matching existing models with real-world architecture. Different from the tracking location method in other research, a start location was created to make it easier to match the digital with the … Continue reading BIM+AR in Architecture: A Building Maintenance Application for a Smart Phone

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Multi-occupancy Environmental Control for Smart Connected Communities

The project proposes an integrative approach that developed a community member-centered framework for determining the heating system control of the building through multi-standard decision-making driven by bio-sensing, which could establish a tailor-made building environment control system to reduce energy consumption and improve comfort of occupants. Continue reading Multi-occupancy Environmental Control for Smart Connected Communities

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Impacts of Building Performance on Occupants’ Work Productivity

The indoor environmental conditions at 1865 workstations from over 60 modern office buildings were studied as part of an integrated Post Occupancy Evaluation study. The offices were located in research and development, public, private, and commercial buildings. Measured IEQ data and occupant responses were correlated with human factors such as age, gender, and spatial factors … Continue reading Impacts of Building Performance on Occupants’ Work Productivity

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DEVELOPMENT OF AI-DRIVEN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN GUIDELINES:

ESTABLISHING HUMAN BIOMETRIC SIGNAL-DRIVEN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN GUIDELINE AS A FUNCTION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES In most architectural design projects, the clients and architects are the main members of the designing process. Architects and clients unescapably spend a large amount of time deciding design agreements due to misunderstandings about the clients’ requirements and preferences. The objective of … Continue reading DEVELOPMENT OF AI-DRIVEN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN GUIDELINES:

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Development of data-driven building façade design preference guideline models: Machine Learning Techniques to Predict User Design Preferences

This study aims to develop a data-based design preference prediction model that performs design preference prediction based on design preference data of a specific user or group of users. The developed prediction model can function as a design guide for expanding client engagement, facilitating comprehensive information sharing, and inducing efficient communication during the architectural design … Continue reading Development of data-driven building façade design preference guideline models: Machine Learning Techniques to Predict User Design Preferences

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Office Floor Plans Generation Based on Generative Adversarial Network

Creating a new way of architecture drawing based on machine learning to save architecture or BIM modelers’ time: Based on the BIM data set of an architecture firm, Dynamo (a visual programming language in the Revit) was used to obtain a training set and a test set — two groups of the paired pictures. one … Continue reading Office Floor Plans Generation Based on Generative Adversarial Network

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Automating Fire Code Compliance using BIM and Revit Plug-ins

Five BIM aided plugins were planned to be developed in Revit using C# programming language and based on International Building Code 2018 (IBC 2018) as published by the International Code Council (ICC) to assist and check building fire protection design: Tool 1 automatically calculates occupancy load for each room based on the occupant types and … Continue reading Automating Fire Code Compliance using BIM and Revit Plug-ins