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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Assessment of recent UK fire safety guidance for covered car parks and electric vehicles	39
Measuring lift door air leakage rates in modern high-rise residential buildings	29
Numerical investigation of fire in the cavity of naturally ventilated double skin façade with venetian blinds	28
Erratum to Volume 40 Issue 4, July 2019: Assessing and mitigating overheating in buildings	27
Corrigendum to “CIBSE TM54 energy projections I: A case study using quasi-steady statemodelling”	24
Creating state-of-the-art weather files to enable a climate-resilient built environment in the UK	23
Preparation and performance study of a novel radiant panel for thermal and cooling storage with phase change materials	17
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	11
Prediction of mould growth rate within building envelopes: development and validation of an improved model	11
Evaluating UKCP18-Based weather files for overheating assessment using building simulation: A case study for a flat in london	10
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	10
Streamlining life cycle assessment for complex Mechanical Electrical and Plumbing products – Lessons from lighting	10
Practical applications	10
Evaluating whole life carbon impact of climate control systems in net-zero building designs	10
Development of a hybrid, ANN-linear model for building drainage systems subject to multiple simultaneous discharges	9
Towards net-zero archetypes: The performance of system-only, fabric-only, staged and whole-house retrofit	9
Building drainage system risk assessment using convolutional neural networks	9
Predicting the energy performance of retrofit domestic heat pumps	8
Practical Applications	7
Thermal comfort in lower economic groups: The applicability of the ASHRAE-55 adaptive standards in informal settlements and refugee camps	7
Research on multi-objective optimization of building energy efficiency based on energy consumption and thermal comfort	7
Effects of humidity control and simulated natural airflow on indoor dynamic thermal comfort	7
Investigating urban canyons, façade albedo, and pedestrian thermal comfort using microclimate model calculations	7
Closing the loop in building services: A systematic review of circular economy applications	7
Energy-saving potential assessment of a classroom building envelope through sensitivity analysis and multi-objective optimization under different climate types	6

Development of artificial neural network models for indirect evaporative coolers in multi-climate regions based on field measurement	6
Performance evaluation of an energy-efficient oscillating air-conditioning dehumidification system through experimental testing and numerical modelling	6
Effects of contaminant diffusion on the fresh air inlets of a clean room workshop	6
Practical applications	6
Accounting for lack of European harmonisation when creating next generation energy performance certificates	6
Fire safety study of a perlite concrete chimney and wooden ceilings used in buildings based on experimental tests and CFD analysis	6
CIBSE TM54 energy projections I: A case study using quasi-steady state modelling	6
The inclusion of the urban heat island effect in design weather for net-zero buildings	5
Feasibility of battery storage in solar photovoltaic (PV) installations in Ireland: A case study	5
Design and sizing practices of ground source heat pump systems in Finnish multi-apartment building retrofits	5
Narrative modelling: A comparison of high and low mass dwelling solutions in Afghanistan and Peru	5
Practical applications	5
Modelling the positive and negative interaction between mood and thermal sensation in the built environment using a combined Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm and Morris method	5
Evaluating life cycle carbon reductions in healthcare retrofits through a multi-objective optimisation framework	4
Correlation of AC energy consumption and passive thermal comfort with floor levels in tropical high-rise residential dwellings	4
An overheating criterion for bedrooms in temperate climates: Derivation and application	4
Night cooling by hybrid supply ventilation – analytical predictions of airflow rates and the ‘hybrid ventilation triangles’	4
Investigating energy performance of build-to-rent buildings in england	4
Culturable airborne fungi communities in naturally ventilated indoor spaces of old residential buildings in Poland	4
Accurate representations of locally meaningful future extreme weather events and the implications for India	4
An investigation of the electrical and thermal performances of the photovoltaic wall with different air gap thicknesses and modes in winter	4
Practical applications	4
A comparison between the impact of dynamic envelope control strategies on the buildings’ smart readiness indicator and modelled performance	3
Assessment of the validity of using a radiant panel in the low-height floor heating	3
Urban morphology, urban heat island (UHI) and building energy consumption: A critical review of methods and relationships among influential parameters	3
Evaluation of new dew point evaporative cooler heat and mass exchanger designs with different geometries	3
Balancing environmental, economic and public health: The cost of swimming pool water circulation	3
Digital-twin-controlled ventilation for real-time resilience against transmission of airborne infectious disease in an indoor food court	3
Subjective evaluation of thermal comfort of tropically acclimatized subjects in air conditioned, naturally ventilated and radiant cooling environments	3
Dynamic model integrated with BIM to evaluate building water distribution system performance	3
Practical applications	3
Mock-up experimental study on the performance of a combined cooling-domestic hot water-ground source heat pump system	3
Investigation of displacement ventilation performance under various room configurations using computational fluid dynamics simulation	3
A simple dynamic time constant model for both summer overheating and winter heating analysis	3
Temporal resolution of photovoltaic electricity production with school energy consumption: a London primary school case study	2
Practical applications	2
The primary energy factor and carbon intensity of waste energy	2
Working under the collided supply jets of active chilled beams – The effect on comfort and work performance	2
Practical applications	2
Spatiotemporal variations in cold waves and the impacts of UHI on building loads during cold wave periods in Tianjin, China	2
The risks of oversizing domestic water piping – Measurement of peak flows in multistory residential buildings	2
Measurement and rapid assessment of indoor air quality at mass gathering events to assess ventilation performance and reduce aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2	2
An image recognition measurement approach and uncertainty for overspeed governors employed in elevator safety	2
Practical Applications	2
Study on thermal comfort and ventilation performance of a wind catcher in hot-dry climate of Mexico: A sustainable energy-saving strategy	2
Improving energy consumption for dynamic intake and exhaust FAÇADES: A new setup design: Part B	2
Study on the cooling performance of a radiative cooling-based ventilated roof for its application in buildings	2
CIBSE TM54 energy projections III: A case study using dynamic simulation with detailed system modelling	2
Energy house 2.0: The design, build, commissioning, performance & early findings of a large-scale building physics test facility	2
Improving the ventilation of a classroom to achieve heating energy savings and better indoor air quality	2

An assessment of the performance of heat transfer enhancement for optimizing high-temperature thermal energy storage	2
Solving the comfort-retrofit conundrum through post-occupancy evaluation and multi-objective optimisation	2
Data-driven method for estimating fixture use probability in simultaneous peak water flow calculations	2
Delivering buildings and defining performance for a net zero built environment	2
A Bayesian optimized LSboost framework for energy usage intensity prediction in a university office building	2
SREF: A data-driven stacked ensemble framework for solar radiation prediction using meteorological features	2
Predicting indoor environmental conditions using correlation models for behaviour change suggestions	2
Deriving optimal direct load control sequences for HVAC systems of small commercial buildings	2
A revised PMV model: From a physiological standpoint	2
Practical Applications	2
Performance evaluation and degradation analysis of 20 MW photovoltaic power plant located in the southwestern highlands of Algeria	2
Influence of gap size between aluminium radiant sheets on the efficiency of lightweight floor heating	1
Tracking building operational energy and carbon emissions using S-curve trajectories—a prototype tool	1
Daylight solar radiation AMY data derived from satellite remote sensing: Validation against ground measurements and comparison with TMYs	1
A method for determining a true national statistical distribution of building element U-values and its application to a dataset underpinning a building stock energy model	1
Energy performance certificate calculation methodologies across Europe and accommodating new performance indicators	1
Study of the entrainment motion of oily fine particles (PM2.5) in a standing wave acoustic field under the influence of cohesion	1
Impact of soil freezing on the thermal performance of geothermal borehole heat exchangers across Canadian climates	1
Heat load forecasting model considering two dimensional changes of time series	1
CIBSE TM54 energy projections II: A case study using dynamic simulation with template systems modelling	1
Research on the pressure differential characteristics in the biological safety isolation chamber for infectious patient transport	1
Frost suppression performance of an air source heat pump using sensible heat from indoor air to preheat outdoor air	1
Practical applications	1
Real coded genetic algorithm in operational optimization of a district cooling system: An inceptive applicability assessment and power saving evaluation	1
Towards net-zero futures: Modular Passivhaus design as a solution to meeting national carbon targets for new housing	1
Thermal regulation capacity of a green roof in the Mediterranean climate of Istanbul	1
Using active cooling/heating for 1C1R grey-box model parameter identification in an actual environment: A proof-of-concept study	1
The influence of different offset modes on the drainage characteristics of a double stack drainage system in a high-rise building	1
Practical Applications	1
Modular personalized climatization testing infrastructure with smartphone-based user feedback	1
Methods on reflecting electricity consumption change characteristics and electricity consumption forecasting based on clustering algorithms and fuzzy matrices in buildings	1
Significant differences in residential energy consumption under different pricing models: New evidence from a district heating and cooling project in subtropical China	1
Generating global high-resolution current and future weather timeseries, and the implications for India	1
Leveraging energy performance certificate models as a basis for dynamic simulation modelling of decarbonisation strategies in primary healthcare buildings	1