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Simulation-Based Evaluation of Low Carbon Design Strategies for Extreme Climates (2024)
Journal Article
Toyo Diaz, A., & Sajjadian, S. M. (in press). Simulation-Based Evaluation of Low Carbon Design Strategies for Extreme Climates. Intelligent Buildings International, https://doi.org/10.1080/17508975.2024.2303118

Extreme climate conditions present the greatest challenge in achieving thermal comfort in buildings. To address this issue, researchers have evaluated the effectiveness of various low-carbon strategies in extreme climates, assessing their impact on c... Read More about Simulation-Based Evaluation of Low Carbon Design Strategies for Extreme Climates.

SARS-CoV-2, Ventilation Strategies, Thermal Comfort and Carbon Implications for Buildings (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Sajjadian, S. M. (2023). SARS-CoV-2, Ventilation Strategies, Thermal Comfort and Carbon Implications for Buildings. In PLEA STGO 2022: Book of Proceedings Volume 1 (160-164)

The spread of SARS-CoV-2 since 2019 has rapidly become a global crisis with unprecedented records of deaths and hospitalizations in the last century. The infectious particles spread more easily indoors than outdoors and therefore built environment se... Read More about SARS-CoV-2, Ventilation Strategies, Thermal Comfort and Carbon Implications for Buildings.

Benchmarking indoor headroom heights of residential buildings based on ASHRAE Standard 55 (2023)
Journal Article
Tajuddeen, I., & Sajjadian, S. M. (2023). Benchmarking indoor headroom heights of residential buildings based on ASHRAE Standard 55. Intelligent Buildings International, 15(3), 109-130. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508975.2023.2221840

The continuous design of residential buildings without comprehensive attention to the vital form and envelope related decision-making steps has necessitated this study. The research aims to uncover the impact of headroom heights of different resident... Read More about Benchmarking indoor headroom heights of residential buildings based on ASHRAE Standard 55.

Vacuum Insulation Panels for Domestic New Builds and Refurbishment in Scotland (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Mitchell, N., & Sajjadian, S. M. (in press). Vacuum Insulation Panels for Domestic New Builds and Refurbishment in Scotland.

Insulations have fundamental role in buildings’ thermal performance by assisting in reducing heat loss and excessive heat gain through the thermal envelope, which subsequently reduces the demand on heating and cooling systems. Increased energy perfor... Read More about Vacuum Insulation Panels for Domestic New Builds and Refurbishment in Scotland.

Regression Models for Predicting the Global Warming Potential of Thermal Insulation Materials (2023)
Journal Article
Tajuddeen, I., Sajjadian, S. M., & Jafari, M. (2023). Regression Models for Predicting the Global Warming Potential of Thermal Insulation Materials. Buildings, 13(1), Article 171. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13010171

The impacts and benefits of thermal insulations on saving operational energy have been widely investigated and well-documented. Recently, many studies have shifted their focus to comparing the environmental impacts and CO2 emission-related policies o... Read More about Regression Models for Predicting the Global Warming Potential of Thermal Insulation Materials.

A Critique on the UK’s Net Zero Strategy (2023)
Journal Article
Sajjadian, S. M. (2023). A Critique on the UK’s Net Zero Strategy. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 56, Article 103003. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seta.2022.103003

Before the Covid-19 pandemic UK passed net-zero emission law legislation to become the first major economy in the world to end its contribution to global warming by 2050. Following the UK’s legislation to reach net-zero emissions, a long-term strateg... Read More about A Critique on the UK’s Net Zero Strategy.

Assessing and Monitoring of Building Performance by Diverse Methods (2022)
Journal Article
Seminara, P., Vand, B., Sajjadian, S. M., & Tupenaite, L. (2022). Assessing and Monitoring of Building Performance by Diverse Methods. Sustainability, 14(3), Article 1242. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031242

Buildings are one of the largest contributors to energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in the world. There is an increased interest in building performance evaluation as an essential practice to design a sustainable building. Building... Read More about Assessing and Monitoring of Building Performance by Diverse Methods.

Automatic Architectural Drawing Labelling Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Sajjadian, S. M., Jafari, M., & Chen, X. (2021). Automatic Architectural Drawing Labelling Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network. In Sustainability in Energy and Buildings 2021 (69-78). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6269-0_6

Architectural designers and technologists are able to make an assessment on buildability, thermal and hygrothermal performance of design details. To process drawings, human vision segments, classifies and distinguishes the drawing objects on the basi... Read More about Automatic Architectural Drawing Labelling Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network.

User Perception on Key Performance Indicators in an In-Service Office Building (2021)
Journal Article
Pestana, T., Flores-Colen, I., Duarte Pinheiro, M., & Masoud Sajjadian, S. (2021). User Perception on Key Performance Indicators in an In-Service Office Building. Infrastructures, 6(3), Article 45. https://doi.org/10.3390/infrastructures6030045

A holistic understanding of the correlations between supply and demand in buildings forms the basis for their performance assessment. This paper aims to reinterpret a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that influence users’ satisfaction from di... Read More about User Perception on Key Performance Indicators in an In-Service Office Building.

Four Angles of Using Timber in Tall Buildings (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Sajjadian, S. M., Barlow, C., & Tupenaite, L. (2020). Four Angles of Using Timber in Tall Buildings. In Sustainability in Energy and Buildings 2020 (183-193). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8783-2_15

Increasing attention to utilise more sustainable materials in the construction industry has made timber-based building elements more desirable. The advantages of timber in prefabrication and sustainable development are widely known, and recent invest... Read More about Four Angles of Using Timber in Tall Buildings.

An Expandable, Contextualized and Data-Driven Indoor Thermal Comfort Model (2020)
Journal Article
Sajjadian, S. M., Jafari, M., & Pekaslan, D. (2020). An Expandable, Contextualized and Data-Driven Indoor Thermal Comfort Model. Energy and Built Environment, 1(4), 385-392. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbenv.2020.04.005

Continuous discrepancies in building performance predictions creates an ongoing inclination to link contextualized, real-time inputs and users’ feedback for not only building control systems but also for simulation tools. It is now seeming necessary... Read More about An Expandable, Contextualized and Data-Driven Indoor Thermal Comfort Model.

High rise buildings in Europe from energy performance perspective (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Sajjadian, S. M., Tupenaite, L., Kanapeckiene, L., Naimaviciene, J., Radif, S., & Amado, M. (2019). High rise buildings in Europe from energy performance perspective. In The 13th international conference: Modern building materials, structures and techniques (663-669). https://doi.org/10.3846/mbmst.2019.029

The United States is well known for the birthplace of tall buildings in the world since the nineteenth century. The trend continued across all continents and in 1940, Europe developed its first tall building of over 100 meters in Genoa, Italy. Buildi... Read More about High rise buildings in Europe from energy performance perspective.

Selection of structural system for wooden public building: Multiple criteria approach (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Tupenaite, L., Gecys, T., Kanapeckiene, L., Sajjadian, S. M., & Naimaviciene, J. (2019). Selection of structural system for wooden public building: Multiple criteria approach. In The 13th international conference: Modern building materials, structures and techniques (691-697). https://doi.org/10.3846/mbmst.2019.074

There has been a growing interest in the construction industry for using materials with lower environmental impacts, in this context, stakeholders increasingly seeing wood as the natural and sustainable option for public buildings. Studies worldwide... Read More about Selection of structural system for wooden public building: Multiple criteria approach.

Multiple criteria assessment of high-rise timber buildings (2019)
Journal Article
Tupėnaitė, L., Žilėnaitė, V., Kanapeckienė, L., Sajjadian, S. M., Gečys, T., Sakalauskienė, L., & Naimavičienė, J. (2019). Multiple criteria assessment of high-rise timber buildings. Engineering Structures and Technologies, 11(3), 87-94. https://doi.org/10.3846/est.2019.11952

Although the majority of high-rise buildings are constructed from concrete and steel, there is a growing interest in the new generation of multi-storey timber buildings around the world and several ecologically sustainable structural systems have alr... Read More about Multiple criteria assessment of high-rise timber buildings.

An Artificial Intelligence Method for Comfort Level Prediction (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Sajjadian, S. M., Jafari, M., & Siebers, P. (2018). An Artificial Intelligence Method for Comfort Level Prediction. In Sustainability in Energy and Buildings 2018: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference in Sustainability on Energy and Buildings (SEB’18) (169-177). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04293-6_17

With the rapid demand for the energy efficient consumption in buildings, bridging the gap between predicted and measured performance is essential. However, recent studies show that there is a significant mismatch between predicted and actual building... Read More about An Artificial Intelligence Method for Comfort Level Prediction.

Risk identification in the early design stage using thermal simulations—A case study (2018)
Journal Article
Sajjadian, S. M. (2018). Risk identification in the early design stage using thermal simulations—A case study. Sustainability, 10(1), Article 262. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10010262

The likely increasing temperature predicted by UK Climate Impacts Program (UKCIP) underlines the risk of overheating and potential increase in cooling loads in most of UK dwellings. This could also increase the possibility of failure in building perf... Read More about Risk identification in the early design stage using thermal simulations—A case study.