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Resilient passive cooling strategies during heat waves: A quantitative assessment in different climates Open

Douaa Al Assaad, Abantika Sengupta, Ping An, Hilde Breesch, Afshin Afshari , et al. · 2025

Author Correction: Typical and extreme weather datasets for studying the resilience of buildings to climate change and heatwaves Open

Anaïs Machard, Agnese Salvati, Mamak P. Tootkaboni, Abhishek Gaur, Jiwei Zou , et al. · 2025

Net Zero World COP28 Outcomes Report – Indonesia Open

Bruce Hamilton, Daniel A. Vega, Dadan Kusdiana, Tony Susandy, Carolyn Szum , et al. · 2024

This report describes Net Zero World Initiative activities initiated with Indonesia in 2023. The Net Zero World Initiative is a collaborative effort of eight countries, nine U.S. government agencies, 10 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) nati…

Ambient energy for buildings: Beyond energy efficiency Open

Lazarus Adua, Amma Asamoah, John Barrows, Pamela Brookstein, Bing Chen , et al. · 2024

Cost-Benefit Analysis For Indonesia Building Sector: Whole-Building Cooling Solutions Open

Ralph T. Muehleisen, Ji-Hyun Kim, Carolyn Szum, Ronnen Levinson, Zhaoyun Zeng , et al. · 2024

The Net Zero World (NZW) Initiative Collaborative Work Program with the Government of Indonesia (GoI) includes technical assistance and investment mobilization facilitation to accelerate deployment of energy efficiency technologies and sol…

Typical and extreme weather datasets for studying the resilience of buildings to climate change and heatwaves Open

Anaïs Machard, Agnese Salvati, Mamak P. Tootkaboni, Abhishek Gaur, Jiwei Zou , et al. · 2024

Hot, cold, or just right? An infrared biometric sensor to improve occupant comfort and reduce overcooling in buildings via closed-loop control Open

Ronnen Levinson, Donghun Kim, Howdy Goudey, Sharon Chen, Hui Zhang , et al. · 2024

International Energy Agency - Resilient Cooling of Buildings - Key Performance Indicators Report (Annex 80) Open

Peter Holzer, Abhishek Gaur, Edward Arens, Shady Attia, Vincenzo Corrado , et al. · 2024

The world is facing a rapid increase of air conditioning of buildings. It is the motivation of Annex 80 to develop, assess and communicate solutions of resilient cooling and overheating protection. Resilient Cooling is used to denote low e…

Resilient Passive Cooling Strategies During Heat Waves: A Quantitative Assessment in Different Climates Open

Douaa Al Assaad, Abantika Sengupta, Hilde Breesch, Afshin Afshari, Deepak Amaripadath , et al. · 2024

Phase II Cost-Benefit Analysis: Economic Impact Assessment For Indonesia Building Sector Whole-Building Cooling Solutions Open

Sang J. Kim, Timothy M. Allison, Ralph T. Muehleisen, Carolyn Szum, Ronnen Levinson , et al. · 2024

Multi-criteria decision support framework for climate change-sensitive thermal comfort evaluation in European buildings Open

Deepak Amaripadath, Ronnen Levinson, Rajan Rawal, Shady Attia · 2023

Numerical Analysis of Various Heat Countermeasures: Effects on Energy Consumption and Indoor Thermal Comfort in Densely Built Wooden House Area Open

Shanshan Liu, Ronnen Levinson, Daisuke NARUMI · 2023

Densely built areas with poor thermal insulation suffer from high thermal environmental risks and generally consume high energy in summer. Determining the relationship between density and energy consumption is necessary, particularly when …

A review of challenges, barriers, and opportunities for large-scale deployment of cool surfaces Open

Mansour Alhazmi, David J. Sailor, Ronnen Levinson · 2023

United States cool surfaces deployment plan Open

Ronnen Levinson, Mansour Alhazmi, Jackson Becce, André Omer Desjarlais, Haley Gilbert , et al. · 2023

Solar-reflective building envelope surfaces, such as cool roofs and walls, can be especially helpful in disadvantaged communities that often have poorly insulated older homes, aging or absent air conditioning units, steep utility bills, po…

Mixture and method for simulating soiling and weathering of surfaces Open

Mohamad Sleiman, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Hugo Destaillats, Ronnen Levinson, Paul Berdahl , et al. · 2023

This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to simulated soiling and weathering of materials. In one aspect, a soiling mixture may include an aqueous suspension of various amounts of salt, soot, dust, and humic acid. I…

Evaluation of various passive cooling solutions in decarbonizing the Indonesian residential building sector in tropical climates Open

Rongxin Yin, Handi Chandra Putra, Ronnen Levinson · 2023

The buildings sector in Indonesia is dominated by homes—the number of which has been growing rapidly to meet population-driven demand. However, most buildings built over the past four to five decades lack adequate natural ventilation and o…

Policy recommendations from IEA EBCAnnex 80: Resilient Cooling of Buildings Open

Ronnen Levinson, Ed Arens, Emmanuel Bozonnet, Vincenzo Corrado, Haley Gilbert , et al. · 2023

IEA EBC Annex 80 - Dynamic simulation guideline for the performance testing of resilient cooling strategies:Version 2 Open

Chen Zhang, Ongun Berk Kazanci, Shady Attia, Ronnen Levinson, Sang Hoon Lee , et al. · 2023

The objective of Annex 80 is to develop, assess and communicate solutions for resilient cooling. The systematic assessment of resilient cooling strategies is one of the main activities of Annex 80. The previous approach for assessing the r…

Smart detection of indoor occupant thermal state via infrared thermography, computer vision, and machine learning Open

Yingdong He, Hui Zhang, Edward Arens, Alexander Merritt, Charlie Huizenga , et al. · 2022

Pilot-scale NO removal efficacy of photocatalytic roofing granules under urban environmental conditions Open

Xiaochen Tang, Lara Ughetta, Rachael A.T. Gould, Rebecca L. A. Everman, Taisiya Skorina , et al. · 2022

Infrared-Fused Vision-Based Thermoregulation Performance Estimation for Personal Thermal Comfort-Driven HVAC System Controls Open

Ali Ghahramani, Qian Xu, Syung Min, Andy Wang, Hui Zhang , et al. · 2022

Thermal comfort is one of the primary factors influencing occupant health, well-being, and productivity in buildings. Existing thermal comfort systems require occupants to frequently communicate their comfort vote via a survey which is imp…

Monitoring the urban heat island effect and the efficacy of future countermeasures in the Los Angeles Basin Open

Ronnen Levinson, George Ban‐Weiss, Sharon Chen, Haley Gilbert, Howdy Goudey , et al. · 2022

To understand spatial air-temperature variations in local urban heat islands (UHIs) and urban cool islands (UCIs), and their relationship to land-use and land-cover (LULC) properties in the Los Angeles Basin, we sought to (a) use fine-reso…

International Energy Agency EBC Annex 80 - Resilient Cooling of Buildings - State of the Art Review Open

Ai Zhengtao, Jan Akander, Edward Arens, Taha Arghand, Shady Attia , et al. · 2022

The world is facing a rapid increase of air conditioning of buildings. It is the motivation of Annex 80 to develop, assess and communicate solutions of resilient cooling and overheating protection. Resilient Cooling is used to denote low e…

Temperature-adaptive radiative coating for all-season household thermal regulation Open

Kechao Tang, Kaichen Dong, Jiachen Li, Madeleine P. Gordon, Finnegan G. Reichertz , et al. · 2021

A passive turnoff Passive radiative cooling technology uses the infrared atmospheric window to allow outer space to be a cold sink for heat. However, this effect is one that is only helpful for energy savings in the warmer months. Wang et …

Passive cooling designs to improve heat resilience of homes in underserved and vulnerable communities Open

Kaiyu Sun, Wanni Zhang, Zhaoyun Zeng, Ronnen Levinson, Max Wei , et al. · 2021

Resilient cooling strategies – A critical review and qualitative assessment Open

Chen Zhang, Ongun Berk Kazanci, Ronnen Levinson, Per Heiselberg, Bjarne W. Olesen , et al. · 2021

Office-like Test Chambers to Measure Cool Roof Energy Savings in Four Indian Climates Open

Rathish Arumugam, B Sasank, T Rajappa, N Vinay, Garg , et al. · 2021

Selecting a high albedo (solar reflectance) waterproofing layer on the top of a roof helps lower the roofâs surface temperature and reduce the air conditioning energy consumption in the top floor of a building. The annual energy savings …

Modeling potential air temperature reductions yielded by cool roofs and urban irrigation in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area Open

Seongeun Jeong, Dev Millstein, Ronnen Levinson · 2021

Effect of Urban Heat Island and Global Warming Countermeasures on Heat Release and Carbon Dioxide Emissions from a Detached House Open

Daisuke NARUMI, Ronnen Levinson, Yoshiyuki Shimoda · 2021

Urban air temperature rises induced by the urban heat island (UHIE) effect or by global warming (GW) can be beneficial in winter but detrimental in summer. The SCIENCE-Outdoor model was used to simulate changes to sensible heat release and…

Conceptualising a resilient cooling system: A socio-technical approach Open

Wendy Miller, Anaïs Machard, Emmanuel Bozonnet, Nari Yoon, Dahai Qi , et al. · 2021

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