Building design optimization is a highly complex problem, requiring long computational running processes because of the many options that exist when a building is being designed. This paper introduces an integrated approach through which to perform t...
Due to negative environmental impacts caused by the building industry, sustainable buildings have recently become one of the most investigated fields in research. As the design technique itself is mainly responsible for building performance, building...
There are usually multiple functional spaces that meet different usage needs on each building floor. The number of people in different functional spaces varies, resulting in an uneven distribution of people on each floors. When the building is subjec...
Green buildings have recently become a key aspect of the construction field and bring along a renovation of the whole industry chain. Such changes introduce new challenges for all subjects involved, and designers are also affected by such issues, esp...
This paper proposes an optimization process based on a parametric platform for building climate responsive design. Taking residential buildings in six typical American cities as examples, it proposes thermal environment comfort (Discomfort Hour, DH),...
The energy performance of buildings especially public buildings needs to be optimized together with environmental, social and cost performance, which can be achieved by the multiobjective optimization method. The traditional building performance simu...
Residential buildings account for a substantial share of global energy consumption and carbon emissions. This study proposes a climate-responsive multi-objective optimisation framework for identifying optimal low-carbon residential building designs a...
For sustainable building design, performance-based optimization incorporating parametric modelling and evolutionary optimization can allow architects to leverage building massing design to improve energy performance. However, two key challenges make...
With the continuous maturation of prefabricated buildings, the errors and efficiency issues in the design of prefabricated buildings have gradually drawn the attention of architectural designers. The characteristics of standardized design for prefabr...
In a subtropical climate like that of Taiwan, the high temperature and humid environmental conditions often result in discomfort and health effects for building occupants. With regard to building geometry, the wind environment and thermal comfort ass...
This paper proposed an optimization method to minimize the building energy consumption and visual discomfort for a passive building in Shanghai, China. A total of 35 design parameters relating to building form, envelope properties, thermostat setting...
Building atrium design is crucial to maintaining a sustainable built environment and providing thermal comfort to occupants. This study proposes a parametric framework to optimize the atrium’s geometry for environmental performance and thermal...
Building performance optimization is a process aimed at obtaining optimal design parameter combination. The establishment of optimization objectives serves as the foundation for constructing the optimization logic, guiding the direction of building p...
Operational uncertainties play a critical role in determining potential pathways to reduce the building energy footprint in the Global South. This paper presents the application of a non-dominated sorting genetic (NSGA II) algorithm for multi-objecti...
The construction sector’s transition to carbon neutrality requires innovative strategies to address the performance and cost challenges of advanced building designs, such as passive-oriented nearly zero-energy buildings. This study proposes an...
The interior of an underground atrium is often a combination of multiple design elements. The lack of methodology and quantitative data support makes it impossible for developers and operators to know the public’s preferences for further renova...
As the core space for students’ daily living and learning, the quality of the indoor wind environment and air quality in dormitory buildings is particularly critical. However, existing studies often neglect natural ventilation optimization unde...
This study presents a comprehensive seismic performance assessment and performance-based seismic design (PBSD) optimization for a 21-story Science and Innovation Building with three basement levels, characterized by pronounced plan and vertical irreg...
The early stage of architectural design plays a decisive role in determining building energy performance, yet conventional evaluation is typically deferred to later phases, restricting timely and data-informed feedback. This paper proposes EnergAI, a...
This comprehensive review critically examines current methodologies and optimization strategies for designing indoor thermal environments in educational buildings amid the challenges of global climate change and energy demands. The paper evaluates ex...
Building energy design is a multi-objective optimization problem where collective and private perspectives conflict each other. For instance, whereas the collectivity pursues the minimization of environmental impact, the private pursues the maximizat...
Reducing energy consumption while providing a high-quality environment for building occupants has become an important target worthy of consideration in the pre-design stage. A reasonable design can achieve both better performance and energy conservat...
The construction sector accounts for around 40% of global energy usage and surpasses 36% of carbon emissions, highlighting the urgent need for improved renovation strategies. This research presents an AI-enabled generative design optimization framewo...
Achieving zero-energy buildings (ZEBs) requires the appropriate planning of renewable energy systems, particularly photovoltaic (PV) systems, from the early design stage (EDS). Conventional PV system design tools have limitations, including insuffici...
This study sought to optimize the envelope thermal design of free-running urban residential buildings in Malawi. It specifically set out to improve the urban residential buildings’ thermal comfort and suggest optimal envelope thermal design features...
The growing need for safe, cheap and sustainable earthquake-resistant buildings means that efficient methods for optimal seismic design must be found. The complexity and nonlinearity of the problem can be addressed using advanced automated techniques...
Optimizing building performance and economic benefits through feedback in building design is a hot topic in current academic research. However, few studies on prefabricated buildings have been undertaken in this field. Meanwhile, the methodology used...
Optimizing the building performance at the early design stage is justified as a promising approach to achieve many sustainable design goals in buildings; in particular, it opens a new era of attractive energy-efficient design for designers and archit...
Improving building energy efficiency has become essential for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. (1) Background: We aim to strengthen early-stage collaboration among stakeholders based on integrated design principles, rather than relying solel...
Buildings account for a significant share of global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, highlighting the importance of passive design strategies for improving residential energy efficiency and thermal comfort. This systematic review, con...
Sentry box buildings present excessive energy consumption and poor thermal comfort due to the lightweight envelope. Therefore, a framework integrating passive design with multi-objective optimization and cascading active airflow mode optimization for...
An effective seismic design entails many issues related to the capacity-based assessment of the non-linear structural response under strong earthquakes. While very powerful structural calculation programs are available to assist the designer in the c...
With a focus on reducing building energy consumption, approaches that simultaneously optimize multiple passive design parameters in industrial buildings have received limited attention. Most existing studies tend to examine building geometry or indiv...
Early-stage residential building design in dense urban environments involves complex interactions among zoning regulations, geometric configuration, environmental performance, and economic feasibility. Conventional CAD–spreadsheet workflows and...
The spatial layout and arrangement of obstacles in the built environment significantly affect its evacuation performance. However, few researchers focus on pedestrian simulation-based design optimization of built environment under emergency evacuatio...
Chinese universities have gone through three periods of centralized construction and significant differences in the design of teaching buildings in different periods may cause various thermal environment problems. This study takes a city in a cold re...
In light of global climate change and China’s commitment to carbon neutrality by 2060, this study explores energy-saving and decarbonization design optimization for educational buildings, with a specific focus on a high school canteen in Nanjin...
In the early design phase of a building, the task of the Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) engineer is to propose an appropriate HVAC system for a given building. This system should provide thermal comfort to the building occupants at...
Urbanization in China and the proliferation of high-rise office buildings have led to increased demand for daylighting and thermal comfort. These requirements often result in reliance on active systems, including heating, cooling, and artificial ligh...
The building sector is a major contributor to resource consumption, energy use, and greenhouse gas emissions. Sustainable architecture offers a solution, leveraging Building Energy Modeling (BEM) for early-stage design optimization. This study explor...
With the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, rural residences have become an essential component of China’s building energy conservation efforts. However, most existing research has focused more on urban buildings, with less at...
Buildings represent the largest potential for carbon reduction worldwide. This highlights the need for a simulation and optimization method for energy management. The early design stage of buildings represents an important phase in which choices can...
School buildings in hot-humid climates encounter considerable difficulties in balancing energy use and thermal comfort due to this environment, necessitating optimized design strategies to reduce energy consumption while enhancing occupant comfort. T...
This study investigates the impact of the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect on building energy performance and the optimization of passive design strategies in six Moroccan climate zones: Agadir, Tangier, Fez, Ifrane, Marrakech, and Errachidia. A comput...
This work presents an optimization strategy and the cost-optimal design of an off-grid building served by an energy system involving solar technologies, thermal and electrochemical storages. Independently from the multi-objective method (e.g., utilit...
The rapid development of rural tourism and higher requirements for the indoor environments of rural tourism buildings (RTBs) have led to rapid growth in the energy consumption of RTBs. The aim of this work was to apply a new method to optimize the in...
Glass curtain walls (GCWs) have become prevalent in office buildings, owing to their lightweight and modular characteristics. However, their lower thermal resistance, compared to opaque walls, results in increased energy consumption. Incorporating ph...
During the conceptual design phase, detailed geometric models are often unavailable, hindering energy-driven decisions for five-story office buildings. This paper proposes a geometry simplification strategy for office buildings in hot–humid reg...
Finding the most appropriate configuration of building components at the design stage can reduce energy consumption in new buildings. This study aims to optimize the design of the envelope of a new residential building located in a warm climate (sout...
A building curtain wall is an outer protective structure of a building composed of a panel and a supporting structure system. As the main materials of a building curtain wall, the optimization of the keel and panel is a problem that has attracted muc...
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