Title
SEMERGY.net: automatically identifying and optimizing energy-efficient building designs
Abstract
A central goal of European and national climate and energy programs is to reduce the greenhouse gas emission of buildings. SEMERGY is a web-based optimization environment, which supports users in decision-making regarding energy-efficient building designs. Taking the user-specified criteria investment costs, final energy demand of the building, and environmental impact of used building products into account, the system identifies efficient building designs and retrofit options. The following steps were taken: (i) development of a comprehensive building data model, (ii) creation of an ontology of linked building product data, (iii) development of a rule-based system to automatically identify valid construction alternatives for building components, (iv) development of a multi-objective optimization procedure, and (v) creation of a web-based Graphical User Interface to enable data entry and user interaction. The present contribution provides an overview of the progress made in the above mentioned domains.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/s00450-014-0285-5
Computer Science - Research and Development
Keywords
Field
DocType
Building design, Energy efficiency, Optimization
Ontology,Building design,Environmental impact assessment,Systems engineering,Computer science,Efficient energy use,Simulation,Real-time computing,Graphical user interface,Data model,Greenhouse gas,Pre-engineered building
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
31
3
1865-2034
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.40
0
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stefan Fenz144338.97
Johannes Heurix29810.36
Thomas Neubauer3728.34
A Min Tjoa42445465.02
neda ghiassi531.14
ulrich pont630.80
ardeshir mahdavi754.86