OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Building Services Engineering Research & Technology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Optimization of chiller sequencing control for district cooling system at the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Hong Kong Port	22
Managing energy performance in buildings from design to operation using modelling and calibration	19
Freezing from the heat: Building overcooling in Qatar	19
A review of approaches and applications in building stock energy and indoor environment modelling	18
Co-designing with community for net zero: Case study of a housing estate	17
Towards net-zero futures: Modular Passivhaus design as a solution to meeting national carbon targets for new housing	16
Night cooling by hybrid ventilation – analytical predictions of the purge time	16
The risks of oversizing domestic water piping – Measurement of peak flows in multistory residential buildings	14
Narrative modelling: A comparison of high and low mass dwelling solutions in Afghanistan and Peru	13
A data-driven framework for occupancy optimisation strategies towards energy demand reduction in non-domestic buildings	12
Investigating the opportunity for cooling the London underground through waste heat recovery	12
Humidity or air-speed? A climate chamber investigation into adaptive thermal comfort potential	12
Evaluating the performance of six 1970s off-gas deep retrofit bungalows	11
Joint probability distribution of air temperature and global solar radiation for outdoor design conditions based on copula approach	11
Study of the entrainment motion of oily fine particles (PM2.5) in a standing wave acoustic field under the influence of cohesion	10
From PROBE to net zero: A study of soft landings’ contribution	10
Thermal regulation capacity of a green roof in the Mediterranean climate of Istanbul	9
Assessment of recent UK fire safety guidance for covered car parks and electric vehicles	9
Practical applications	8
Measuring lift door air leakage rates in modern high-rise residential buildings	8
Domestic heating with compact combination hybrids (gas boiler and heat pump): A simple English stock model of different heating system scenarios	8
Prediction of mould growth rate within building envelopes: development and validation of an improved model	8
A new approach to smoke control systems in complex atria	8
Development of a simplified calibrated building simulation model of a supermarket for proposed ECMs and control strategies impact evaluation	8
Demand response with heat pumps: Practical implementation of three different control options	8

BSER&T special issue: Sustainable technologies and systems for net zero carbon buildings and communities	7
Preparation and performance study of a novel radiant panel for thermal and cooling storage with phase change materials	7
The effect of the airflow pattern inside air gaps on the assessment of interstitial mould: A theoretical approach	7
Numerical study and experimental validation of heat transfer in a CenoPCM reinforced multi-layered meta-material wall for energy efficient buildings	7
A parametric analysis of future climate change effects on the energy performance and carbon emissions of a Chinese prefabricated timber house	6
Investigating energy performance of build-to-rent buildings in england	6
Correlation of AC energy consumption and passive thermal comfort with floor levels in tropical high-rise residential dwellings	6
Corrigendum to “CIBSE TM54 energy projections I: A case study using quasi-steady statemodelling”	5
A data-driven workflow to improve energy efficient operation of commercial buildings: A review with real-world examples	5
Development of methods to measure the potential of a plaster to regulate indoor humidity	5
Night cooling by hybrid supply ventilation – analytical predictions of airflow rates and the ‘hybrid ventilation triangles’	5
Universal elevator round trip time calculation for general traffic conditions with extension to batch arrivals	4
Implementation of new high-rise building staircase pressure differential system improvements	4
Using different waste as resilient layers for impact sound insulation improvement: New alternative to commercial layers?	4
Investigation of the effectiveness of top-down natural ventilation of a poultry building in a hot-summer mediterranean climate	4
Practical Applications	4
Passive noise control in buildings: An engineering case study of ducted systems	4
Practical Applications	4
Closed cavity façade, an innovative energy saving façade	4
A farewell to learned journals or simply AI signalling hasta la vista?	4
An investigation of the electrical and thermal performances of the photovoltaic wall with different air gap thicknesses and modes in winter	3
Ambient loop district heating and cooling networks with integrated mobility, power and interseasonal storage	3
Reduced multiple model predictive control of an heating, ventilating, and air conditioning system using gap metric and stability margin	3
Numerical investigation of fire in the cavity of naturally ventilated double skin façade with venetian blinds	3
Measurement and rapid assessment of indoor air quality at mass gathering events to assess ventilation performance and reduce aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2	3
An indoor airflow distribution predictor using machine learning for a real-time healthy building monitoring system in the tropics	3
Practical applications	2
User-based fuzzy end-use modeling of indoor urban residential water demand	2
Practical Applications	2
Decarbonising at scale: Extracting strategic thinking from EPC and deprivation data	2
Fault diagnosis of elevator systems based on multidomain feature extraction and SHAP feature selection	2
Optimal control of critical fresh air volume based on sectional adjustment of fresh air and return air dampers	2
Streamlining life cycle assessment for complex Mechanical Electrical and Plumbing products – Lessons from lighting	2
Practical applications	2
An improvement in clash detection process by prioritizing relevance clashes using fuzzy-AHP methods	2
Indoor thermal environment and energy performance in a central air heating system using a heat pump for a house with underfloor space for heat distribution	2
Investigation of the fire hazard of underground space fire scenarios in urban metro tunnels under natural ventilation: Analysis of the impact of tunnel slope on smoke back-layering length	2
Delivering buildings and defining performance for a net zero built environment	2
Evaluating whole life carbon impact of climate control systems in net-zero building designs	2
Comparative analysis of the whole life carbon of three construction methods of a UK-based supermarket	2
Indoor occupancy estimation from carbon dioxide concentration using parameter estimation algorithms	1
The effect of opening windows on the airflow distribution inside naturally ventilated residential bedrooms with ceiling fans	1
Knowledge shared is knowledge grown	1
Improving the ventilation of a classroom to achieve heating energy savings and better indoor air quality	1
Building services engineering research and technology	1
Performance evaluation and degradation analysis of 20 MW photovoltaic power plant located in the southwestern highlands of Algeria	1
Improving indoor air quality and occupant health through smart control of windows and portable air purifiers in residential buildings	1
Empowering smart cities with digital twins of buildings: Applications and implementation considerations of data-driven energy modelling in building management	1
Development and evaluation of a vision-based transfer learning approach for indoor fire and smoke detection	1
Development of a comprehensive car safety gears testing procedure for low- to medium-speed lifts in Hong Kong	1

A comparison between the impact of dynamic envelope control strategies on the buildings’ smart readiness indicator and modelled performance	1
The relationship between comfort, personal control and productivity in UK offices	1
Digital-twin-controlled ventilation for real-time resilience against transmission of airborne infectious disease in an indoor food court	1
Validation of computational fluid dynamics simulations for determining pressure loss coefficients of ventilation components	1
Practical Applications	1
Automatic velocity measurement system applied to elevator overspeed governors	1
Energy, exergy and economic assessments of the dual-mode evaporative cooler for various international climate zones	1
Classical pressure profile prediction using a hybrid form of artificial neural network algorithm applied to building drainage systems	1
Practical applications	1
Culturable airborne fungi communities in naturally ventilated indoor spaces of old residential buildings in Poland	1
Framework for integrated multi-scale computational fluid dynamics simulations in natural ventilation design	1
Evaluating UKCP18-Based weather files for overheating assessment using building simulation: A case study for a flat in london	1
Prediction models of bioaerosols inside office buildings: A field study investigation	1
Sensitivity analysis of the impact of environmental product declaration values on whole life carbon assessment: A case study using expanded polystyrene insulation for the retrofit of a building in Tur	1
Demand response strategy study of a radiant roof cooling system based on the thermal inertia of the building envelope	1
Investigating urban canyons, façade albedo, and pedestrian thermal comfort using microclimate model calculations	1
An overheating criterion for bedrooms in temperate climates: Derivation and application	1
A novel hybrid Harris hawk optimization and sine cosine algorithm based home energy management system for residential buildings	1
A novel blinds control approach based on dynamic radiance and solar radiation energy prediction	1