Construction Research Congress 2022,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 305 - 315
Published: March 18, 2024
Buildings
account
for
40%
of
total
energy
demand
in
the
US.
Consequently,
there
is
a
pressing
need
dataset
that
provides
comprehensive
information
on
consumption
household
units
The
current
practice
large-scale
simulations
may
not
reflect
actual
patterns.
Additionally,
existing
national
building
datasets,
such
as
RECS,
have
limited
number
datapoint
and
do
social
aspects
households.
This
study
aimed
to
create
residential
using
two-stage
machine
learning
approach,
combining
two
datasets
RECS
AHS.
outcome
this
contains
about
well
their
detailed
features.
Three
algorithms,
including
artificial
neural
networks
(ANN),
random
forest
(RF),
gradient
boosting
regression
(GBR),
were
used
develop
data-integration
framework.
results
showed
RF
had
best
performance
predicting
end-use
consumption.
predicted
generated
an
accuracy
over
80%.
These
findings
significant
implications
energy-efficient
design
operation.
Energy & Fuels,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
38(3), P. 1692 - 1712
Published: Jan. 19, 2024
Modern
machine
learning
(ML)
techniques
are
making
inroads
in
every
aspect
of
renewable
energy
for
optimization
and
model
prediction.
The
effective
utilization
ML
the
development
scaling
up
systems
needs
a
high
degree
accountability.
However,
most
approaches
currently
use
termed
black
box
since
their
work
is
difficult
to
comprehend.
Explainable
artificial
intelligence
(XAI)
an
attractive
option
solve
issue
poor
interoperability
black-box
methods.
This
review
investigates
relationship
between
(RE)
XAI.
It
emphasizes
potential
advantages
XAI
improving
performance
efficacy
RE
systems.
realized
that
although
integration
with
has
enormous
alter
how
produced
consumed,
possible
hazards
barriers
remain
be
overcome,
particularly
concerning
transparency,
accountability,
fairness.
Thus,
extensive
research
required
address
societal
ethical
implications
using
create
standardized
data
sets
evaluation
metrics.
In
summary,
this
paper
shows
potential,
perspectives,
opportunities,
challenges
application
system
management
operation
aiming
target
efficient
energy-use
goals
more
sustainable
trustworthy
future.
Energy,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
286, P. 129499 - 129499
Published: Nov. 6, 2023
The
transportation
sector
is
deemed
one
of
the
primary
sources
energy
consumption
and
greenhouse
gases
throughout
world.
To
realise
design
sustainable
transport,
it
imperative
to
comprehend
relationships
evaluate
interactions
among
a
set
variables,
which
may
influence
transport
CO2
emissions.
Unlike
recent
published
papers,
this
study
strives
achieve
balance
between
machine
learning
(ML)
model
accuracy
interpretability
using
Shapley
additive
explanation
(SHAP)
method
for
forecasting
emissions
in
UK's
sector.
end,
paper
proposes
an
interpretable
multi-stage
framework
simultaneously
maximise
ML
determine
relationship
predictions
influential
variables
by
revealing
contribution
each
variable
predictions.
For
sector,
experimental
results
indicate
that
road
carbon
intensity
found
be
most
contributing
both
other
studies,
population
GDP
per
capita
are
uninfluential
variables.
proposed
assist
policymakers
making
more
informed
decisions
establishing
accurate
investment.
Case Studies in Thermal Engineering,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
60, P. 104743 - 104743
Published: June 24, 2024
In
this
study,
eXtreme
Gradient
Boosting
(XGBoost)
and
Light
(LightGBM)
algorithms
were
used
to
model-predict
the
drying
characteristics
of
banana
slices
with
an
indirect
solar
drier.
The
relationships
between
independent
variables
(temperature,
moisture,
product
type,
water
flow
rate,
mass
product)
dependent
(energy
consumption
size
reduction)
established.
For
energy
consumption,
XGBoost
demonstrates
superior
performance
R2
0.9957
during
training
0.9971
testing,
alongside
minimal
MSE
0.0034
0.0008
testing
phase
indicating
high
predictive
accuracy
low
error
rates.
Conversely,
LGBM
shows
lower
values
(0.9061
training,
0.8809
testing)
higher
0.0747
0.0337
reflecting
poorer
performance.
Similarly,
for
shrinkage
prediction,
outperforms
LGBM,
evidenced
by
(0.9887
0.9975
(0.2527
0.4878
testing).
comparative
statistics
showed
that
regularly
outperformed
LightGBM.
game
theory-based
Shapley
functions
revealed
temperature
types
most
influential
features
model.
These
findings
illustrate
practical
applicability
LightGBM
models
in
food
operations
towards
optimizing
conditions,
improving
quality,
reducing
consumption.
Buildings,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
13(9), P. 2162 - 2162
Published: Aug. 25, 2023
Building
energy
assessment
models
are
considered
to
be
one
of
the
most
informative
methods
in
building
efficiency
design,
and
current
have
been
developed
based
on
machine
learning
algorithms.
Deep
proved
their
effectiveness
fields
such
as
image
fault
detection.
This
paper
proposes
a
deep
framework
with
interpretability
support
design.
The
proposed
is
validated
using
Commercial
Energy
Consumption
Survey
dataset,
results
show
that
wrapper
feature
selection
method
(Sequential
Forward
Generation)
significantly
improves
performance
compared
filtered
(Mutual
Information)
embedded
(Least
Absolute
Shrinkage
Selection
Operator)
Moreover,
Forest
model
has
an
R2
0.90
outperforms
Multilayer
Perceptron,
Convolutional
Neural
Network,
Backpropagation
Radial
Basis
Function
Network
terms
prediction
performance.
In
addition,
reveal
how
features
affect
contribution
consumption
single
sample.
study
helps
designers
assess
new
buildings
develop
improvement
measures.
Energies,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
18(3), P. 692 - 692
Published: Feb. 2, 2025
This
study
presents
a
novel
framework
for
city-level
energy
planning
and
retrofitting,
tailored
to
Danish
cities
neighborhoods.
The
addresses
the
challenges
of
large-scale
urban
modeling
by
integrating
automated
processes
data
collection,
demand
prediction,
renewable
integration.
It
combines
open-source
simulation
tools
validated
datasets,
enabling
efficient
scalable
predictions
performance
across
areas,
including
streets,
districts,
entire
cities,
with
minimal
user
input.
key
components
include
collection
modeling,
resource
estimation,
gap
evaluation,
design
retrofitting
strategies
DanCTPlan
tool,
developed
based
on
this
framework,
was
applied
two
case
studies
in
Denmark:
single
street
101
buildings
district
comprising
five
streets
1284
buildings.
In
single-street
case,
all
meet
current
regulations
resulted
60.8%
reduction
heat
5.8%
electricity
demand,
significant
decreases
peak
demands.
district-level
measures
led
29.5%
2.4%
demand.
Renewable
scenarios
demonstrated
that
photovoltaic
systems
supplying
30%
solar
thermal
meeting
10%
heating
would
require
capacities
2218
kW
3540
kW,
respectively.
framework’s
predictive
capabilities
flexibility
position
it
as
robust
tool
support
decision-makers
developing
sustainable
cost-effective
strategies,
paving
way
toward
establishing
energy-efficient
positive
districts.
AIMS energy,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
13(1), P. 35 - 85
Published: Jan. 1, 2025
<p>Concomitant
with
the
expeditious
growth
of
construction
industry,
challenge
building
energy
consumption
has
become
increasingly
pronounced.
A
multitude
factors
influence
operations,
thereby
underscoring
paramount
importance
monitoring
and
predicting
such
consumption.
The
advent
big
data
engendered
a
diversification
in
methodologies
employed
to
predict
Against
backdrop
influencing
operation
consumption,
we
reviewed
advancements
research
pertaining
supervision
prediction
deliberated
on
more
energy-efficient
low-carbon
strategies
for
buildings
within
dual-carbon
context,
synthesized
relevant
progress
across
four
dimensions:
contemporary
state
supervision,
determinants
optimization
Building
upon
investigation
three
predictive
were
examined:
(ⅰ)
Physical
methods,
(ⅱ)
data-driven
(ⅲ)
mixed
methods.
An
analysis
accuracy
these
revealed
that
methods
exhibited
superior
precision
actual
Furthermore,
predicated
this
foundation
identified
determinants,
also
explored
prediction.
Through
an
in-depth
examination
prediction,
distilled
pertinent
accurate
forecasting
offering
insights
guidance
pursuit
conservation
emission
reduction.</p>