Our Publications


Basurra, S., Jankovic, L. and Zhang, Y. (2014) ‘Development of an Expert System for Zero Carbon Design and Retrofit of Buildings’, in Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Zero Carbon Buildings Today and in the Future. Birmingham City University, Birmingham: September 11-12, 2014.

Calleja Rodríguez, G. et al. (2013) ‘Uncertainties and sensitivity analysis in building energy simulation using macroparameters’, Energy and Buildings, 67, pp. 79–87. doi: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2013.08.009.

Emanuelenaboni, E. et al. (2013) ‘Comparison of conventional, parametric and evolutionary optimization approaches for the architectural design of nearly zero energy buildings’, in Proceedings of BS 2013: 13th Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association, pp. 2559–2566. Available at: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84886650579&partnerID=MN8TOARS.

Ji, Y. et al. (2016) ‘Design summer year weather – outdoor warmth ranking metrics and their numerical verification’, Building Services Engineering Research and Technology. SAGE Publications Ltd, 37(6), pp. 639–663. doi: 10.1177/0143624416648179.

Ji, Y., Korolija, I. and Zhang, Y. (2018) ‘Thermal responses of single zone offices on existing near-extreme summer weather data’, Building Simulation. Tsinghua University Press, 11(1), pp. 15–35. doi: 10.1007/s12273-017-0367-y.

Korolija, I. et al. (2010) ‘“HVAC Systems Energy Demand vs Building Energy Demand”’, in Proceedings of Conference: IESD PhD Conference: Energy and Sustainable Development. Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development, Queens Building, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, 21 May 2010.

Korolija, I. et al. (2011) ‘Influence of building parameters and HVAC systems coupling on building energy performance’, Energy and Buildings, 43(6), pp. 1247–1253. doi: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.01.003.

Korolija, I., Zhang, Y. Y., et al. (2013) ‘Regression models for predicting UK office building energy consumption from heating and cooling demands’, Energy and Buildings, 59, pp. 214–227. doi: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2012.12.005.

Korolija, I., Marjanovic-Halburd, L., et al. (2013) ‘UK office buildings archetypal model as methodological approach in development of regression models for predicting building energy consumption from heating and cooling demands’, Energy and Buildings, 60, pp. 152–162. doi: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2012.12.032.

Korolija, I. and Zhang, Y. Y. (2013) ‘Impact of model simplification on energy and comfort analysis for dwellings’, in BS 2013 - 13th Int. IBPSA Conference. Chambery, France, pp. 1184–1192. Available at: http://www.ibpsa.org/proceedings/BS2013/p_1502.pdf.

Lara, R. A. A. et al. (2017) ‘Optimization Tools for Building Energy Model Calibration’, Energy Procedia, 111, pp. 1060–1069. doi: 10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.269.

Melo, A. P. P. et al. (2015) ‘Is thermal insulation always beneficial in hot climate?’, in 14th International Conference of IBPSA - Building Simulation 2015, BS 2015, Conference Proceedings, pp. 1353–1360. Available at: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84976402604&partnerID=MN8TOARS.

Naboni, Emanuele, Maccarini, A., et al. (2013) ‘Comparison of conventional, parametric and evolutionary optimisation approaches for the architectural design of nearly zero energy buildings’, in BS 2013 - 13th Int. IBPSA Conference. Chambery, France. Available at: http://www.ibpsa.org/proceedings/BS2013/p_1503.pdf.

Naboni, Emanuele, Zhang, Y., et al. (2013) ‘Extending the use of parametric simulation in practice through a cloud based online service’, in BSA2013 - Building Simulation Applications Conference. Bozen, Italy. Available at: http://www.ibpsa.org/proceedings/BSA2013/11.pdf.

Naboni, E. et al. (2013) ‘Extending the use of parametric simulation in practice through a cloud based online service’, in Building Simulation Applications, pp. 105–112.

Naboni, E. et al. (2015) ‘Defining the energy saving potential of architectural design’, in Energy Procedia, pp. 140–146. doi: 10.1016/j.egypro.2015.12.204.

Ordoñez, A. et al. (2014) ‘Impact Of Building Geometry On Its Energy Performance Depending On Climate Zones’, in BSO 14 - Building Simulation and Optimisation, the second IBPSA England conference, June 23-24, 2014, UCL.

Tresidder, E., Zhang, Y. and Forrester, A. I. J. (2012) ‘Acceleration of building design optimisation through the use of Kriging surrogate models’, in BSO12 - Building Simulation and Optimization Conference. Loughborough, UK, pp. 1–8. Available at: http://www.ibpsa.org/proceedings/BSO2012/1A1.pdf.

Tresidder, E., Zhang, Y. Y. and Forrester, A. I. J. A. I. J. (2011) ‘Optimisation of low-energy building design using surrogate models’, in BS 2011 - 12th Int. IBPSA Conference. Sidney, Australia, pp. 1012–1016. Available at: http://www.ibpsa.org/proceedings/BS2011/P_1374.pdf.

Wright, A. J., Korolija, I. and Zhang, Y. (2013) ‘Optimization of dwelling design under current and future climates using evolutionary algorithms in EnergyPlus’, in CIBSE Technical Symposium 2013. Liverpool, UK. Available at: http://www.cibse.org/content/cibsesymposium2013/paper076.pdf.

Zhang, Y. (2009) ‘“Parallel” energyplus and the development of a parametric analysis tool’, in IBPSA 2009 - International Building Performance Simulation Association 2009, pp. 1382–1388. Available at: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84870198300&partnerID=MN8TOARS.

Zhang, Y. (2010) ‘“Evolving Control Strategies for Buildings”’, in IBPSA-England Seminar: Evolutionary Algorithms and the Optimum Design and Control of Buildings. Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK: 25 June, 2010.

Zhang, Y. (2012) ‘“Use jEPlus as an efficient building design optimisation tool”’, in CIBSE ASHRAE Technical Symposium, Imperial College, 18 and 19 April, 2012, London, UK.

Zhang, Y. (2013) ‘“Building performance simulation tools and applications in retrofitting”’, in The 5th Symposium on the Retrofitting Technologies for Existing Buildings. 22-23 April 2013. Beijing, China.

Zhang, Y. and Jankovic, L. (2017) ‘JEA - An Interactive Optimisation Engine for Building Energy Performance Simulation’, in Proceedings of the 15th IBPSA Conference. CA, USA, Aug 7-9, 2017: San Francisco.

Zhang, Y. and Korolija, I. (2010) ‘“Performing complex parametric simulations with jEPlus”’, in SET2010 - 9th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies. Shanghai, China: 24-27 August 2010.

Zhang, Y. and Korolija, I. (2013) ‘New technologies in building design simulation and optimization’, in National Energy Action (NEA) Workshop on Modelling Carbon Reduction. 20 February 2013, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.

Zhang, Y. Y. et al. (2013) ‘How to integrate optimization into building design practice: lessons learnt from a design optimization competition’, in BS 2013 - 13th Int. IBPSA Conference. Chambery, France, pp. 1860–1868. Available at: http://www.ibpsa.org/proceedings/BS2013/p_1462.pdf.