Smart Energy Control Systems for Sustainable Buildings

1. Zero-Energy Living Lab
Salvatore Carlucci, Francesco Causone, Lorenzo Pagliano, Marco Pietrobon

2. Assessment of the Green Roofs Thermal Dynamic Behavior for Increasing the Building Energy Efficiencies
Antonio Gagliano, Maurizio Detommaso, Francesco Nocera

3. Understanding Opportunities and Barriers for Social Occupant Learning in Low Carbon Housing
Magdalena Baborska-Narozny, Fionn Stevenson, Paul Chatterton

4. An Archetype Based Building Stock Aggregation Methodology Using a Remote Survey Technique
James Pittam, Paul D. O’Sullivan, Garrett O’Sullivan

5. Renewable Homes—Feasibility Options for UK Traditional Buildings Through Green Deal
Charikleia Moschou, Catalina Spataru

6. Analysing the Contribution of Internal Heat Gains When Evaluating the Thermal Performance of Buildings
Rainer Elsland

7. Smart Home Appliance Control via Hand Gesture Recognition Using a Depth Camera
Dong-Luong Dinh, Tae-Seong Kim

8. Neural Networks Applied to Short Term Load Forecasting: A Case Study
Filipe Rodrigues, Carlos Cardeira, J. M. F. Calado

9. Development of a Holistic Method to Analyse the Consumption of Energy and Technical Services in Manufacturing Facilities
John Cosgrove, John Littlewood, Paul Wilgeroth

10. Two-Stage Optimization for Building Energy Management
Jorn K. Gruber, Milan Prodanovic

11. An Investigation of Indoor Air Quality in UK Passivhaus Dwellings
Gráinne McGill, Tim Sharpe, Lukumon Oyedele, Greg Keeffe, Keith McAllister

Keywords: Engineering, Computational Intelligence, Energy Systems, Renewable and Green Energy, Civil Engineering