A methodology for identifying the influence of design variations on building energy performance

Journal of Building Performance Simulation

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 411-426

  Bucking, Scott ^a   Zmeureanu, Radu ^a   Athienitis, Andreas ^a  

^a Centre for Zero Energy Buildings Studies   (Canada)

Author keywords

back tracking search; Monte Carlo; net zero energy; optimization; variability analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893976072     PISSN: 19401493     EISSN: 19401507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19401493.2013.863383     Document Type: Article

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