OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Building Services Engineering Research & Technology is 2. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Assessment of recent UK fire safety guidance for covered car parks and electric vehicles	24
Measuring lift door air leakage rates in modern high-rise residential buildings	20
Prediction of mould growth rate within building envelopes: development and validation of an improved model	18
Numerical investigation of fire in the cavity of naturally ventilated double skin façade with venetian blinds	18
Practical Applications	16
Implementation of new high-rise building staircase pressure differential system improvements	15
Preparation and performance study of a novel radiant panel for thermal and cooling storage with phase change materials	14
Erratum to Volume 40 Issue 4, July 2019: Assessing and mitigating overheating in buildings	14
Corrigendum to “CIBSE TM54 energy projections I: A case study using quasi-steady statemodelling”	12
A data-driven workflow to improve energy efficient operation of commercial buildings: A review with real-world examples	11
Evaluating whole life carbon impact of climate control systems in net-zero building designs	11
An improvement in clash detection process by prioritizing relevance clashes using fuzzy-AHP methods	10
Practical applications	10
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	9
Streamlining life cycle assessment for complex Mechanical Electrical and Plumbing products – Lessons from lighting	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
Building performance evaluation of low-energy dwellings with and without smart thermostats	7
Closing the loop in building services: A systematic review of circular economy applications	7
Research on multi-objective optimization of building energy efficiency based on energy consumption and thermal comfort	6
Investigating urban canyons, façade albedo, and pedestrian thermal comfort using microclimate model calculations	6
Thermal comfort in lower economic groups: The applicability of the ASHRAE-55 adaptive standards in informal settlements and refugee camps	6
Development of artificial neural network models for indirect evaporative coolers in multi-climate regions based on field measurement	5

Effects of contaminant diffusion on the fresh air inlets of a clean room workshop	5
Effects of humidity control and simulated natural airflow on indoor dynamic thermal comfort	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	4
Energy-saving potential assessment of a classroom building envelope through sensitivity analysis and multi-objective optimization under different climate types	4
Narrative modelling: A comparison of high and low mass dwelling solutions in Afghanistan and Peru	4
Investigating the opportunity for cooling the London underground through waste heat recovery	4
The safe evacuation of persons from a building operating within COVID-19 restrictions	4
Practical applications	4
Practical applications	4
Fire safety study of a perlite concrete chimney and wooden ceilings used in buildings based on experimental tests and CFD analysis	4
Performance evaluation of an energy-efficient oscillating air-conditioning dehumidification system through experimental testing and numerical modelling	4
Securing Internet of Things devices by enabling Ethereum blockchain using smart contracts	4
CIBSE TM54 energy projections I: A case study using quasi-steady state modelling	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	3
Correlation of AC energy consumption and passive thermal comfort with floor levels in tropical high-rise residential dwellings	3
Night cooling by hybrid supply ventilation – analytical predictions of airflow rates and the ‘hybrid ventilation triangles’	3
Investigating energy performance of build-to-rent buildings in england	3
Accurate representations of locally meaningful future extreme weather events and the implications for India	3
Ambient loop district heating and cooling networks with integrated mobility, power and interseasonal storage	3
Closed cavity façade, an innovative energy saving façade	3
Knowledge shared is knowledge grown	3
Development and evaluation of a vision-based transfer learning approach for indoor fire and smoke detection	2
Digital-twin-controlled ventilation for real-time resilience against transmission of airborne infectious disease in an indoor food court	2
An investigation of the electrical and thermal performances of the photovoltaic wall with different air gap thicknesses and modes in winter	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
A revised PMV model: From a physiological standpoint	2
Mock-up experimental study on the performance of a combined cooling-domestic hot water-ground source heat pump system	2
Practical applications	2
A comparison between the impact of dynamic envelope control strategies on the buildings’ smart readiness indicator and modelled performance	2
An overheating criterion for bedrooms in temperate climates: Derivation and application	2
Investigation of displacement ventilation performance under various room configurations using computational fluid dynamics simulation	2
A simple dynamic time constant model for both summer overheating and winter heating analysis	2
Practical applications	2
Balancing environmental, economic and public health: The cost of swimming pool water circulation	2
Practical applications	2
Culturable airborne fungi communities in naturally ventilated indoor spaces of old residential buildings in Poland	2
Urban morphology, urban heat island (UHI) and building energy consumption: A critical review of methods and relationships among influential parameters	2
Evaluation of new dew point evaporative cooler heat and mass exchanger designs with different geometries	2
Dynamic model integrated with BIM to evaluate building water distribution system performance	2
Study on the cooling performance of a radiative cooling-based ventilated roof for its application in buildings	2