Overview

Publications
- Y. Chen, Z. Deng, X. Guo, T. Hong. Automatic and Rapid Calibration of Urban Building Energy Models by Learning from Energy Performance Database. Applied Energy, 2020.
- T. Hong, M. Ferrando, X. Luo, F. Causone. Modeling and Analysis of Heat Emissions from Buildings to Ambient Air. Applied Energy, 2020.
- M. Ferrando, F. Causone, T. Hong, Y. Chen. Urban Building Energy Modeling (UBEM) Tools: A State-of-the-Art Review of bottom-up physics-based approaches. Sustainable Cities and Society, 2020.
- X. Luo, T. Hong, Y.H. Tang. Modeling thermal interactions between buildings in an urban context. Energies, 2020.
- K. Sun, M. Specian, T. Hong. Nexus of Thermal Resilience and Energy Efficiency in Buildings: A case study of a nursing home. Building and Environment, 2020.
- A.T.D. Perera, V.M. Nik, D. Chen, J.L. Scartezzini, T. Hong. Quantifying the impacts of climate change and extreme climate events on energy systems. Nature Energy, 2020.
- T. Hong, Y. Chen, X. Luo, N. Luo, S.H. Lee. Ten questions on urban building energy modeling. Building and Environment, 2020.
- Y. Chen, T. Hong, X. Luo, B. Hooper. Development of City Buildings Dataset for Urban Building Energy Modeling. Energy and Buildings, 2018.
- R. Jain, X. Luo, G. Sever, T. Hong, C. Catlett. Representation and evolution of urban weather boundary conditions in Downtown Chicago. Building Performance Simulation, 2018.
- T. Hong, Y. Chen, M.A. Piette, X. Luo. Modeling City Building Stock for Large Scale Energy Efficiency Improvement using CityBES. ACEEE Summer Study in Building Energy Efficiency, 2018.
- X. Luo, T. Hong. Modeling building energy performance in urban context. ASHRAE BPAC / SimBuild Conference, Chicago, 2018.
- Y. Chen, T. Hong. Impacts of Building Geometry Modeling Methods on the Simulation Results of Urban Building Energy Models. Applied Energy, 2018.
- Y. Chen, T. Hong, M.A. Piette (2017). Automatic generation and simulation of urban building energy models based on city datasets for city-scale building retrofit analysis. Applied Energy, 2017.
- T. Hong, Y. Chen, S.H. Lee, M.A. Piette. CityBES: A Web-based Platform to Support City-Scale Building Energy Efficiency. Urban Computing, 2016.
- Y. Chen, T. Hong, M.A. Piette. City-Scale Building Retrofit Analysis: A Case Study using CityBES. Building Simulation, 2017.
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