2019
- Mohamed Ouf, William O’Brien, Burak Gunay
On quantifying building performance adaptability to variable occupancy
Building and Environment - William O’Brien, Burak Gunay
Do building energy codes adequately reward buildings that adapt to partial occupancy?
Science and Technology for the Built Environment
2018
- Burak Gunay, Weiming Shen, Guy Newsham
Data analytics to improve building performance: A critical review
Automation in Construction - Mohamed Ouf, Burak Gunay, William O’Brien
A method to generate design-sensitive occupant-related schedules for building performance simulations
Science and Technology for the Built Environment - Burak Gunay, Weiming Shen, Guy Newsham, Araz Ashouri
Modelling and analysis of unsolicited temperature setpoint change requests in office buildings
Building and Environment - Burak Gunay, Weiming Shen, Chunsheng Yang
Text-mining building maintenance work orders for component fault frequency
Building Research and Information - Burak Gunay, Weiming Shen, Brent Huchuk, Chunsheng Yang, Scott Bucking, William O’Brien
Energy and comfort performance benefits of early detection of building sensor and actuator faults
Building Services Engineering Research and Technology - William O’Brien, Aly Abdelalim, Burak Gunay
Development of an office tenant electricity use model and its application for right-sizing HVAC equipment
Journal of Building Performance Simulation - Zixiao Shi, William O’Brien, Burak Gunay
Development of a distributed building fault detection, diagnostic and evaluation system
ASHRAE Transactions - Mohamed Ouf, William O’Brien, Burak Gunay
Improving occupant-related features in building performance simulation tools
Building Simulation - Burak Gunay, Weiming Shen, Chunsheng Yang, Brent Huchuk, Zixiao Shi
A preliminary study on text-mining operator logbooks to develop a fault-frequency model
ASHRAE Transactions - Sara Gilani, William O’Brien, Burak Gunay
Simulating occupants’ impact on building energy performance at different spatial scales
Building and Environment - Chunsheng Yang, Weiming Shen, Qiangqiang Chen, Burak Gunay
A practical solution for HVAC prognostics: Failure mode and effects analysis in building maintenance
Building Engineering
2017
- Burak Gunay, Weiming Shen, Chunsheng Yang
Blackbox modeling of central heating and cooling plant equipment performance
Science and Technology for the Built Environment - Burak Gunay, Weiming Shen, Chunsheng Yang
Characterization of a building’s operation using automation data: a review and case study
Building and Environment - Burak Gunay, William O’Brien, Ian Beausoleil-Morrison, Jayson Bursill
Development and implementation of a thermostat learning algorithm
Science and Technology for the Built Environment - Burak Gunay, Weiming Shen, Guy Newsham
Inverse blackbox modeling of the heating and cooling load in office buildings
Energy and Buildings - Burak Gunay, William O’Brien, Ian Beausoleil-Morrison, Sara Gilani
Development and implementation of an adaptive lighting and blinds control algorithm
Building and Environment - Weiming Shen, Guy Newsham, Burak Gunay
Leveraging existing occupancy-related data for optimal control of commercial office buildings: A review
Advanced Engineering Informatics
2016
- William O’Brien, Burak Gunay, Farhang Tahmasebi, Ardeshir Mahdavi
A preliminary study of representing the inter-occupant diversity in occupant modelling
Journal of Building Performance Simulation - Burak Gunay, William O’Brien, Ian Beausoleil-Morrison
Implementation and comparison of existing occupant behaviour models in EnergyPlus
Journal of Building Performance Simulation - Burak Gunay, William O’Brien, Ian Beausoleil-Morrison
Control-oriented inverse modeling of the thermal characteristics in an office
Science and Technology for the Built Environment - Burak Gunay, William O’Brien, Ian Beausoleil-Morrison, Philippe Bisaillon, Zixiao Shi
Development and implementation of control-oriented models for terminal heating and cooling units
Energy and Buildings - Burak Gunay, William O’Brien, Ian Beausoleil-Morrison, Sara Gilani
Modeling plug-in equipment load patterns in private office spaces
Energy and Buildings - Brent Huchuk, Burak Gunay, William O’Brien, Cynthia Cruickshank
Model-based predictive control of office window shades
Building Research and Information - Sara Gilani, William O’Brien, Burak Gunay, Sebastian Carrizo
Use of dynamic occupant behavior models in the building design and code compliance processes
Energy and Buildings - Burak Gunay, William O’Brien, Ian Beausoleil-Morrison, Jayson Bursill
Implementation of an adaptive occupancy and building learning temperature setback algorithm
ASHRAE Transactions
2015
- William O’Brien, Burak Gunay
Mitigating office performance uncertainty of occupant use of window blinds and lighting using robust design
Building Simulation - Burak Gunay, William O’Brien, Ian Beausoleil-Morrison
Development of an occupancy learning algorithm for terminal heating and cooling units
Building and Environment - Da Yan, William O’Brien, Tianzhen Hong, Xiaohang Feng, Burak Gunay, Farhang Tahmasebi, Ardeshir Mahdavi
Occupant behavior modeling for building performance simulation: Current state and future challenges
Energy and Buildings
2014
- Burak Gunay, William O’Brien, Ian Beausoleil-Morrison, Andrea Perna
On the behavioral effects of residential electricity submetering in a heating season
Building and Environment - Burak Gunay, William O’Brien, Ian Beausoleil-Morrison, Brent Huchuk
On adaptive occupant-learning window blind and lighting controls
Building Research and Information - Burak Gunay, William O’Brien, Ian Beausoleil-Morrison, Rhys Goldstein, Simon Breslav, Azam Khan
Coupling stochastic occupant models to building performance simulation using the discrete event system specification formalism
Journal of Building Performance Simulation - Burak Gunay, Jayson Bursill, Brent Huchuk, William O’Brien, Ian Beausoleil-Morrison
Shortest-prediction-horizon model-based predictive control for individual offices
Building and Environment - William O’Brien, Burak Gunay
The contextual factors contributing to occupants’ adaptive comfort behaviors in offices–A review and proposed modeling framework
Building and Environment - Burak Gunay, William O’Brien, Ian Beausoleil-Morrison
A critical review of observation studies, modeling, and simulation of adaptive occupant behaviors in offices
Building and Environment