Building energy prediction and management

This research direction aims to solve the problems of low efficiency of building energy simulation and lack of fine management of regional building energy consumption. The study proposes a lightweight building energy simulation engine, which innovatively introduces cross thermal zone heat transfer calculations into the resistive-capacitive (RC) model, reducing the computational intensity by an order of magnitude while ensuring a high degree of agreement with the results of authoritative simulation engines [1]. At the regional scale, the study incorporates global climate change and urbanisation factors into the regional building energy consumption prediction model [2], and proposes a bottom-up regional building energy consumption modelling and optimisation paradigm, which combines multi-source survey data with a physical model to achieve an accurate assessment of the energy saving potential of residential buildings in a large region [3].