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

Article	Citations
Measuring lift door air leakage rates in modern high-rise residential buildings	29
Assessment of recent UK fire safety guidance for covered car parks and electric vehicles	24
Corrigendum to “CIBSE TM54 energy projections I: A case study using quasi-steady statemodelling”	21
Erratum to Volume 40 Issue 4, July 2019: Assessing and mitigating overheating in buildings	21
Numerical investigation of fire in the cavity of naturally ventilated double skin façade with venetian blinds	17
Prediction of mould growth rate within building envelopes: development and validation of an improved model	17
Preparation and performance study of a novel radiant panel for thermal and cooling storage with phase change materials	17
A data-driven workflow to improve energy efficient operation of commercial buildings: A review with real-world examples	14
Evaluating UKCP18-Based weather files for overheating assessment using building simulation: A case study for a flat in london	13
Towards net-zero archetypes: The performance of system-only, fabric-only, staged and whole-house retrofit	13
Building drainage system risk assessment using convolutional neural networks	13
Practical applications	11
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
Evaluating whole life carbon impact of climate control systems in net-zero building designs	9
An improvement in clash detection process by prioritizing relevance clashes using fuzzy-AHP methods	9
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	9
Practical Applications	8
A study on universal round trip time analysis for passenger demand beyond elevator contract capacity by Monte Carlo simulation	8
Predicting the energy performance of retrofit domestic heat pumps	7
Investigating urban canyons, façade albedo, and pedestrian thermal comfort using microclimate model calculations	7
Effects of contaminant diffusion on the fresh air inlets of a clean room workshop	6
Effects of humidity control and simulated natural airflow on indoor dynamic thermal comfort	6
Development of a hybrid, ANN-linear model for building drainage systems subject to multiple simultaneous discharges	6
Thermal comfort in lower economic groups: The applicability of the ASHRAE-55 adaptive standards in informal settlements and refugee camps	6

Building performance evaluation of low-energy dwellings with and without smart thermostats	6
Research on multi-objective optimization of building energy efficiency based on energy consumption and thermal comfort	6
Closing the loop in building services: A systematic review of circular economy applications	6
The safe evacuation of persons from a building operating within COVID-19 restrictions	5
CIBSE TM54 energy projections I: A case study using quasi-steady state modelling	5
Fire safety study of a perlite concrete chimney and wooden ceilings used in buildings based on experimental tests and CFD analysis	5
Practical applications	5
Energy-saving potential assessment of a classroom building envelope through sensitivity analysis and multi-objective optimization under different climate types	5
Evaluation of thermal comfort in mixed-mode buildings in temperate oceanic climates using American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers Comfort Database II	5
Performance evaluation of an energy-efficient oscillating air-conditioning dehumidification system through experimental testing and numerical modelling	5
Development of artificial neural network models for indirect evaporative coolers in multi-climate regions based on field measurement	5
Accounting for lack of European harmonisation when creating next generation energy performance certificates	5
Practical applications	5
Feasibility of battery storage in solar photovoltaic (PV) installations in Ireland: A case study	4
Accurate representations of locally meaningful future extreme weather events and the implications for India	4
Evaluating life cycle carbon reductions in healthcare retrofits through a multi-objective optimisation framework	4
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	4
Investigating the opportunity for cooling the London underground through waste heat recovery	4
Investigating energy performance of build-to-rent buildings in england	4
Securing Internet of Things devices by enabling Ethereum blockchain using smart contracts	4
Narrative modelling: A comparison of high and low mass dwelling solutions in Afghanistan and Peru	4
Night cooling by hybrid supply ventilation – analytical predictions of airflow rates and the ‘hybrid ventilation triangles’	4
Closed cavity façade, an innovative energy saving façade	3
Practical applications	3
An overheating criterion for bedrooms in temperate climates: Derivation and application	3
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
Practical applications	3
Development and evaluation of a vision-based transfer learning approach for indoor fire and smoke detection	3
A comparison between the impact of dynamic envelope control strategies on the buildings’ smart readiness indicator and modelled performance	3
Correlation of AC energy consumption and passive thermal comfort with floor levels in tropical high-rise residential dwellings	3
Knowledge shared is knowledge grown	3
Urban morphology, urban heat island (UHI) and building energy consumption: A critical review of methods and relationships among influential parameters	3
Culturable airborne fungi communities in naturally ventilated indoor spaces of old residential buildings in Poland	3
Mock-up experimental study on the performance of a combined cooling-domestic hot water-ground source heat pump system	2
Subjective evaluation of thermal comfort of tropically acclimatized subjects in air conditioned, naturally ventilated and radiant cooling environments	2
Assessment of the validity of using a radiant panel in the low-height floor heating	2
Evaluation of new dew point evaporative cooler heat and mass exchanger designs with different geometries	2
Deriving optimal direct load control sequences for HVAC systems of small commercial buildings	2
SREF: A data-driven stacked ensemble framework for solar radiation prediction using meteorological features	2
Balancing environmental, economic and public health: The cost of swimming pool water circulation	2
A simple dynamic time constant model for both summer overheating and winter heating analysis	2
Investigation of displacement ventilation performance under various room configurations using computational fluid dynamics simulation	2
A revised PMV model: From a physiological standpoint	2
Predicting indoor environmental conditions using correlation models for behaviour change suggestions	2
The primary energy factor and carbon intensity of waste energy	2
Digital-twin-controlled ventilation for real-time resilience against transmission of airborne infectious disease in an indoor food court	2
Dynamic model integrated with BIM to evaluate building water distribution system performance	2
Practical applications	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
Improving energy consumption for dynamic intake and exhaust FAÇADES: A new setup design: Part B	2
Practical applications	1
Temporal resolution of photovoltaic electricity production with school energy consumption: a London primary school case study	1
Measurement and rapid assessment of indoor air quality at mass gathering events to assess ventilation performance and reduce aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2	1
Delivering buildings and defining performance for a net zero built environment	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
Practical applications	1
Significant differences in residential energy consumption under different pricing models: New evidence from a district heating and cooling project in subtropical China	1
The influence of different offset modes on the drainage characteristics of a double stack drainage system in a high-rise building	1
Frost suppression performance of an air source heat pump using sensible heat from indoor air to preheat outdoor air	1
CIBSE TM54 energy projections II: A case study using dynamic simulation with template systems modelling	1
Daylight solar radiation AMY data derived from satellite remote sensing: Validation against ground measurements and comparison with TMYs	1
An image recognition measurement approach and uncertainty for overspeed governors employed in elevator safety	1
Performance evaluation and degradation analysis of 20 MW photovoltaic power plant located in the southwestern highlands of Algeria	1
Indoor occupancy estimation from carbon dioxide concentration using parameter estimation algorithms	1
The risks of oversizing domestic water piping – Measurement of peak flows in multistory residential buildings	1
Practical Applications	1
Development of a simplified calibrated building simulation model of a supermarket for proposed ECMs and control strategies impact evaluation	1
Using active cooling/heating for 1C1R grey-box model parameter identification in an actual environment: A proof-of-concept study	1
Heat load forecasting model considering two dimensional changes of time series	1
Modular personalized climatization testing infrastructure with smartphone-based user feedback	1
Research on the pressure differential characteristics in the biological safety isolation chamber for infectious patient transport	1
Data-driven method for estimating fixture use probability in simultaneous peak water flow calculations	1
An assessment of the performance of heat transfer enhancement for optimizing high-temperature thermal energy storage	1
Improving the ventilation of a classroom to achieve heating energy savings and better indoor air quality	1
Practical Applications	1
Solving the comfort-retrofit conundrum through post-occupancy evaluation and multi-objective optimisation	1
Methods on reflecting electricity consumption change characteristics and electricity consumption forecasting based on clustering algorithms and fuzzy matrices in buildings	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
Tracking building operational energy and carbon emissions using S-curve trajectories—a prototype tool	1
Influence of gap size between aluminium radiant sheets on the efficiency of lightweight floor heating	1