BTUS Urban Science

Jain, Rajeev, Xuan Luo, Gökhan Sever, Tianzhen Hong, and Charlie Catlett. "Representation and evolution of urban weather boundary conditions in downtown Chicago." Journal of Building Performance Simulation (2018) 1–14.

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An, Jingjing, Da Yan, and Tianzhen Hong. "Clustering and statistical analyses of air-conditioning intensity and use patterns in residential buildings." Energy and Buildings 174 (2018) 214–227.

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Tarroja, Brian, Felicia Chiang, Amir AghaKouchak, Scott Samuelsen, Shuba V Raghavan, Max Wei, Kaiyu Sun, and Tianzhen Hong. "Translating climate change and heating system electrification impacts on building energy use to future greenhouse gas emissions and electric grid capacity requirements in California." Applied Energy 225 (2018) 522–534.

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Hooper, Barry, Tianzhen Hong, Danie Macumber, Sang Hoon Lee, Yixing Chen, Nicholas Long, Edwin Lee, Imma Regina Dela Cruz, Mary Ann Piette, and Jennifer Berg. "The BayREN Integrated Commercial Retrofits (BRICR) Project: An Introduction and Preliminary Results." 2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 2018.

Hong, Tianzhen, Yixing Chen, Mary Ann Piette, and Xuan Luo. "Modeling City Building Stock for Large Scale Energy Efficiency Improvements Using CityBES." 2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 2018.

Piette, Mary Ann, Rebecca Zarin Pass, Reshma Singh, and Tianzhen Hong. "Review of City Energy and Emissions Analysis Needs, Methods & Tools." 2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. 2018.

Chen, Yixing, and Tianzhen Hong. "Impacts of Building Geometry Modeling Methods on the Simulation Results of Urban Building Energy Models." Applied Energy 215 (2018).

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Pass, Rebecca Zarin, Michael Wetter, and Mary Ann Piette. "A thermodynamic analysis of a novel bidirectional district heating and cooling network." Energy 144 (2018) 20–30.

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Liang, Xin, Tianzhen Hong, and Geoffrey Qiping Shen. "Improving the accuracy of energy baseline models for commercial buildings with occupancy data." Applied Energy (2016).

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Pass, Rebecca Zarin, Michael Wetter, and Mary Ann Piette. "A Tale of Three District Energy Systems: Metrics and Future Opportunities." 2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. 2016.

Cui, Ying, Da Yan, Tianzhen Hong, and Jingjin Ma. Temporal and spatial characteristics of the urban heat island in Beijing and the impact on building design and energy performance. 2017.

Luo, Xuan, Tianzhen Hong, Yixing Chen, and Mary Ann Piette. Electric Load Shape Benchmarking for Small- and Medium-Sized Commercial Buildings. 2017.

Chen, Yixing, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette. Automatic Generation and Simulation of Urban Building Energy Models Based on City Datasets for City-Scale Building Retrofit Analysis. 2017.

Maccarini, Alessandro, Michael Wetter, Alireza Afshari, Goran Hultmark, Niels Bergsoe, and Anders Vorre. "Energy saving potential of a two-pipe system for simultaneous heating and cooling of office buildings." Energy and Buildings 134 (2017) 234–247.

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Hong, Tianzhen, Mary Ann Piette, Yixing Chen, Sang Hoon Lee, Sarah C Taylor-Lange, Rongpeng Zhang, Kaiyu Sun, and Phillip N Price. "Commercial Building Energy Saver: An energy retrofit analysis toolkit." Applied Energy 159 (2015).

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Lee, Sang Hoon, Tianzhen Hong, Mary Ann Piette, Geof Sawaya, Yixing Chen, and Sarah C Taylor-Lange. "Accelerating the energy retrofit of commercial buildings using a database of energy efficiency performance." Energy (2015).

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Lee, Sang Hoon, Tianzhen Hong, Mary Ann Piette, and Sarah C Taylor-Lange. "Energy retrofit analysis toolkit for commercial buildings: A review." 89 (2015) 1087–1100.

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Lee, Sang Hoon, Tianzhen Hong, Geof Sawaya, Yixing Chen, and Mary Ann Piette. "DEEP: A Database of Energy Efficiency Performance to Accelerate Energy Retrofitting of Commercial Buildings." (2015).

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Lee, Sang Hoon, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette. Review of Existing Energy Retrofit Tools. 2014.

Hong, Tianzhen, Le Yang, David Hill, and Wei Feng. "Data and Analytics to Inform Energy Retrofit of High Performance Buildings." Applied Energy 126 (2014) 90–106.

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