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Energy, SBS symptoms, and productivity in Swiss open-space offices: Economic evaluation of standard, actual, and optimum scenarios

Dolaana Khovalyg, Dusan Licina, Verena Marie Barthelmes, Arnab Chatterjee, Cecile Anne Berquand

The fundamental aspiration of new-generation high-performing buildings is to reduce energy use while securing indoor environmental quality conducive to human health and productivity. However, existing frameworks for identifying Key Performance Indicators ( ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Dynamic Thermal Performance of the BIPV Facades

Dolaana Khovalyg, Mohammad Rahiminejad

Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), generally integrated on the roofs, are more and more often installed on the facade as a result of a growing need in renewable energy generating surfaces. This allows maximizing the use of the building surfaces to g ...

AMER SOC HEATING, REFRIGERATING AND AIR-CONDITIONING ENGS2021

Ray-tracing MRT and human thermophysiology model combination for local discomfort prediction

Dolaana Khovalyg, Arnab Chatterjee, Mohamad Rida

Thermal comfort and discomfort based on the local sensation of different body parts have been an important development in thermal comfort studies from the past decade. The human thermophysiology model can be a handy tool to predict local skin and core temp ...

TU Delft2022

Experimental study of the hydrodynamic and thermal performances of ventilated wall structures

Dolaana Khovalyg, Mohammad Rahiminejad

The presence of a ventilated air gap behind the external cladding in a building envelope is known to have a tangible contribution to the overall performance of the wall assembly. In the present study, the hydrodynamic and thermal performances of ventilated ...

2023

Interindividual variability of human thermoregulation: Toward personalized ergonomics of the indoor thermal environment

Dolaana Khovalyg

Objective The study was undertaken to show the magnitude of interindividual differences in energy expenditure (i.e., heat production) under normal living conditions with the aim of providing physiological evidence to support the advancement of a personaliz ...

WILEY2022

A mixed-methods case study on resident thermal comfort and attitude towards peak shifting of space heating

Dolaana Khovalyg, Verena Marie Barthelmes

Recent simulation-based studies have indicated that Economic Model Predictive Control (EMPC) of space heating systems can exploit the thermal mass in residential buildings for demand response (DR) purposes in district heating systems. However, there is a l ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

A multidomain approach to neighbourhood typology for urban environmental studies

Jan Wienold, Dolaana Khovalyg, Dusan Licina, Kun Lyu, Hanieh Khodaei Tehrani

Cities are facing unprecedented challenges to their environments and residents due to continuous growth, including urban overheating, daylight accessibility, noise, and air pollution. This requires a holistic approach to the research and implementation of ...

2025

Behavioral adaptations to cold environments: A comparative study of active nomadic and modern sedentary lifestyles

Dolaana Khovalyg, Arnab Chatterjee

Modern occupants hardly use their capacity to adapt to the wide range of thermal environments due to living in well-insulated buildings with indoor climatization. However, climate change with associated health hazards necessitates exploring the limits of h ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Optimal design and operation of a building energy hub: A comparison of exergy-based and energy-based optimization in Swiss and Italian case studies

Dolaana Khovalyg, Flourentzos Flourentzou, Amirreza Heidari, Joshua Pereira

With growing concerns on global warming, exergy-based design methods for energy hubs (EHs) in the urban context have been recently investigated to promote more rational and efficient use of energy sources. This study aims to compare exergy-based multi-obje ...

Elsevier2021

High daily energy expenditure of Tuvan nomadic pastoralists living in an extreme cold environment

Dolaana Khovalyg

Research investigating thermoregulatory energy costs in free-living humans is limited. We determined the total energy expenditure (TEE) of Tuvan pastoralists living in an extreme cold environment and explored the contribution of physical activity and cold- ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Performance of lightweight and heavyweight building walls with naturally ventilated passive and active facades

Dolaana Khovalyg, Mohammad Rahiminejad

Well-designed ventilated air-spaces behind external claddings in the building envelope can potentially reduce thermal energy flow in the entire wall structure. In this study, the impact of the dynamic thermo-hydraulic behavior of the flow in the naturally ...

2021

Adaptive hot water production based on Supervised Learning

Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Dolaana Khovalyg, Amirreza Heidari

A major challenge in the common approach of hot water generation in residential houses lies in the highly stochastic nature of domestic hot water (DHW) demand. Learning hot water use behavior enables water heating systems to continuously adapt to the stoch ...

2021

Personalized environmental control systems (PECS): A systematic review of performance evaluation methods for thermal comfort, air quality and energy

Dolaana Khovalyg, Andrew James Sonta, Matteo Favero

Personalized Environmental Control Systems (PECS) can improve both comfort and energy efficiency by shifting indoor climate control toward localized, occupant-tailored comfort, unlike conventional systems that condition entire, partly unoccupied spaces uni ...

2025

Global Environmental Stimuli and Human-Building Interaction in Open Space Offices: A Swiss Case Study

Marilyne Andersen, Jan Wienold, Dolaana Khovalyg, Dusan Licina, Caroline Karmann, Verena Marie Barthelmes, Arnab Chatterjee, Maria Viviana Gonzalez Serrano

Office employees are exposed to a variety of environmental and contextual stimuli that might drive them to perform control actions, such as operating windows or window blinds. These actions have a significant impact on building energy use and increase unce ...

AMER SOC HEATING, REFRIGERATING AND AIR-CONDITIONING ENGS2021

Validation of human thermo-physiology models for personalized predictions of thermal responses

Dolaana Khovalyg, Mohamad Rida

Current thermal comfort models used in practice do not consider physiological and psychological differences of people. With this respect, human thermo-physiology models (HTPM) are useful tools to assess human thermal comfort at local and overall levels of ...

Curran Associates, Inc2023

Reinforcement Learning for proactive operation of residential energy systems by learning stochastic occupant behavior and fluctuating solar energy: Balancing comfort, hygiene and energy use

François Maréchal, Dolaana Khovalyg, Amirreza Heidari

When it comes to residential buildings, there are several stochastic parameters, such as renewable energy production, outdoor air conditions, and occupants’ behavior, that are hard to model and predict accurately, with some being unique in each specific bu ...

2022

Do women feel colder by nature? A systematic literature review and meta-analysis of sex differences in physiological and subjective thermal responses

Dolaana Khovalyg

How individuals perceive and evaluate their thermal environment is a key driver of thermoregulatory behaviour, which not only helps maintain personal comfort but also directly impacts building energy consumption - a sector responsible for approximately 30 ...

2025

Thermal resistance of the ventilated air-spaces behind external claddings; theoretical definition and a parametric study

Dolaana Khovalyg, Mohammad Rahiminejad

The presence of a ventilated air cavity between the external cladding and the wall core of a wall assembly can have a varying contribution to the thermal performance of the building envelope. In particular, the thermal resistance of a ventilated air-space ...

2021

Short-term energy use prediction of solar-assisted water heating system: Application case of combined attention-based LSTM and time-series decomposition

Dolaana Khovalyg, Amirreza Heidari

With improved insulation of building envelopes and the use of low-temperature space heating systems, the share of energy use for domestic hot water (DHW) production in buildings has increased significantly, and nearly become the most energy-expensive servi ...

2020

Dynamic indoor thermal environment using Reinforcement Learning-based controls: Opportunities and challenges

Dolaana Khovalyg, Arnab Chatterjee

Currently, the indoor thermal environment in many buildings is controlled by conventional control techniques that maintain the indoor temperature within a prescribed deadband. The latest research provides evidence that more dynamic variations of the indoor ...

2023