A5059166857- Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Noise Effects and Management
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
- BIM and Construction Integration
- Impact of Light on Environment and Health
- Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
- Housing Market and Economics
- Safety Warnings and Signage
- Facilities and Workplace Management
- Smart Grid Energy Management
- Transportation Planning and Optimization
- Vehicle emissions and performance
- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- Energy Efficiency and Management
- Energy and Environmental Systems
- 3D Modeling in Geospatial Applications
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Green IT and Sustainability
- Korean Urban and Social Studies
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2020-2024
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
2018-2022
With climate change leading to more frequent, intense, and longer durations of extreme weather events such as heat waves cold snaps, it is essential maintain safe indoor environmental conditions for occupants during events, which may coincide with, or even cause, power outages that expose residents health risks. Analyzing the impacts on thermal resilience buildings can help stakeholders (including occupants) understand risk inform them about mitigation adaptation actions. Moreover, analyzing...
This paper introduces a database of 34 field-measured building occupant behavior datasets collected from 15 countries and 39 institutions across 10 climatic zones covering various types in both commercial residential sectors. is comprehensive global about behavior. The includes occupancy patterns (i.e., presence people count) behaviors interactions with devices, equipment, technical systems buildings). Brick schema models were developed to represent sensor room metadata information. publicly...
In response to increasingly severe weather conditions, optimization of building performance and investment provides an opportunity consider co-benefits thermal resilience during energy efficiency retrofits. This work aims assess buildings using simulation evaluate the indoor overheating risk under nine scenarios, considering historical (2010s), mid-term future (2050s), long-term (2090s) typical meteorological years, heat wave years. Such analysis is based on profiles that combine six...
Indoor thermal comfort is critical to building sustainability besides improving occupants' health, well-being and productivity. However, the applicability of existing standards within different climatic conditions contextual settings often in question. This study presents findings from a longitudinal conducted low-income affordable housing Mumbai, India. Surveys were three distinct seasons warm–humid climate. The linear regression method yielded mean neutral temperature 28.3°C wide band...
Policy approaches to the global energy transition often focus on technology-based solutions while ignoring challenges of overall demand. A sufficiency-first approach aims limit superfluous consumption achieving wellbeing for all. This study focuses US built environment mechanisms sufficiency under urban land-use policy. The historical context exclusionary and car-oriented planning is reviewed with an order-of-magnitude assessment effects greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE). Using national...
The increasing frequency and severity of weather extremes evidence the need to assess buildings beyond their typical thermal energy performance, but also evaluate resilience safeguard occupants’ health. This study proposes a simulation framework assist design teams in evaluating enhancing against overheating depletion resources. work addresses how aggregate profiles single into urban scale, aiming support evaluation thermally resilient communities. is first step connecting building scales...
The way occupants adapt in an environmental setting directly affects their perceived thermal comfort. This study examines the variation comfort perception due to diversified occupant behaviour. self-reported behaviour patterns within social housing were clustered into three groups based on newly developed index, Adaptive Behaviour Index. A dynamic building simulation approach was then employed investigate difference using "Annual Comfort Hours" as quantifying metric. results revealed that...