...M. Keith Sharp This study reports the development of extreme meteorological year (XMY) data for simulating buildings that are heated and cooled entirely by ambient energy in four climates varying in outdoor temperature and cloudiness. Electrification of conventional buildings is insufficient...

.... This paper presents an optimization of the performance of an office building with a mixed-mode run, including night ventilative cooling and shading strategies in summer. The objective is to assess their effectiveness with zero-energy building criteria. The building design integrates an efficient envelope...

...Mariana Migliori; Hamidreza Najafi The building sector is responsible for the largest portion of the total energy consumption in the United States. Conventional physics-based building energy models (BEMs) consider all of the building characteristics in order to accurately simulate their energy...

...M. Keith Sharp This study evaluates for the first time the suitability of typical meteorological year (TMY) weather data for simulating the performance of buildings that are entirely conditioned by ambient energy. A home in Durango, CO, was simulated with TMY data, with real data for 1998–2020...

...M. Keith Sharp Ambient House is a building that maintains indoor temperature within a comfortable range by controlling gains and losses from ambient sources and utilizing thermal mass to moderate temperature changes when the sources are unavailable. Previously, necessary building characteristics...

...Kevin J. Kircher; Walter Schaefer; K. Max Zhang Advanced building climate control systems have the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy costs, but more research is needed to bring these systems to market. A key component of building control research is testing...