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Christoph F. Reinhart

Christoph F. Reinhart

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
51
Citations
13694
World Ranking
3775
National Ranking
1104

Overview

Christoph F. Reinhart is affiliated with MIT in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Engineering and Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Building and Construction, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, as well as Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The main focus of their research lies in topics such as Building Energy and Comfort Optimization, Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Wind and Air Flow Studies, Environmental Impact and Sustainability, Impact of Light on Environment and Health, Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies, and Energy Efficiency and Management.

Their recent publications demonstrate a range of interests around urban building energy modeling and environmental assessment, with papers such as:

  • From concept to application: A review of use cases in urban building energy modeling, 2020, Applied Energy
  • Using urban building energy modelling (UBEM) to support the new European Union's Green Deal: Case study of Dublin Ireland, 2021, Energy and Buildings
  • Evaluating assumptions of scales for subjective assessment of thermal environments - Do laypersons perceive them the way, we researchers believe?, 2020, Energy and Buildings
  • UBEM.io: A web-based framework to rapidly generate urban building energy models for carbon reduction technology pathways, 2021, Sustainable Cities and Society
  • Automated floorplan generation in architectural design: A review of methods and applications, 2022, Automation in Construction

Their frequent coauthors include Zachary Berzolla, Yu Qian Ang, Samuel Letellier-Duchesne, Caitlin Mueller, and Ramon Weber.

Publications are often found in venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, Building and Environment, Building Simulation Conference proceedings, Energy and Buildings, and Sustainable Cities and Society.

Best Publications

  • Urban building energy modeling – A review of a nascent field

    Christoph F. Reinhart;Carlos Cerezo Davila

  • Dynamic Daylight Performance Metrics for Sustainable Building Design

    Christoph F. Reinhart;John Mardaljevic;Zack Rogers

  • Lightswitch-2002: a model for manual and automated control of electric lighting and blinds

    Christoph F. Reinhart

  • Validation of dynamic RADIANCE-based daylight simulations for a test office with external blinds

    Christoph F. Reinhart;Oliver Walkenhorst

  • Monitoring manual control of electric lighting and blinds

    CF Reinhart;K Voss

  • The daylighting dashboard – A simulation-based design analysis for daylit spaces

    Christoph F. Reinhart;Jan Wienold

  • Adding advanced behavioural models in whole building energy simulation: A study on the total energy impact of manual and automated lighting control

    Denis Bourgeois;Christoph Reinhart;Iain Macdonald

  • The simulation of annual daylight illuminance distributions — a state-of-the-art comparison of six RADIANCE-based methods

    Christoph F. Reinhart;Sebastian Herkel

  • The ‘adaptive zone’ – A concept for assessing discomfort glare throughout daylit spaces

    JA Jakubiec;CF Reinhart

  • DIVA 2.0: INTEGRATING DAYLIGHT AND THERMAL SIMULATIONS USING RHINOCEROS 3D, DAYSIM AND ENERGYPLUS

    J. Alstan Jakubiec;Christoph F. Reinhart

  • A method for predicting city-wide electricity gains from photovoltaic panels based on LiDAR and GIS data combined with hourly Daysim simulations

    J. Alstan Jakubiec;Christoph F. Reinhart

  • Development and validation of a Radiance model for a translucent panel

    Christoph F. Reinhart;Marilyne Andersen

  • Modeling Boston: A workflow for the efficient generation and maintenance of urban building energy models from existing geospatial datasets

    Carlos Cerezo Davila;Christoph F. Reinhart;Jamie L. Bemis

  • Findings from a survey on the current use of daylight simulations in building design

    Christoph Reinhart;Annegret Fitz

  • Validation of a Bayesian-based method for defining residential archetypes in urban building energy models

    Julia Sokol;Carlos Cerezo Davila;Christoph F. Reinhart

  • Umi – An Urban Simulation Environment For Building Energy Use, Daylighting And Walkability

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  • From concept to application: A review of use cases in urban building energy modeling

    Yu Qian Ang;Zachary Michael Berzolla;Christoph F. Reinhart

  • Standard daylight coefficient model for dynamic daylighting simulations

    D. Bourgeois;C. F. Reinhart;G. Ward

  • Experimental Validation of Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2009 and Daysim 3.0

    Christoph Reinhart;Pierre-Felix Breton

  • Approved Method: IES Spatial Daylight Autonomy (sDA) and Annual Sunlight Exposure (ASE)

    Lisa Heschong;Van Den Wymelenberg;Keven;Marilyne Andersen

  • The daylit area – Correlating architectural student assessments with current and emerging daylight availability metrics

    Christoph F. Reinhart;Daniel A. Weissman

Frequent Co-Authors

Marta C. González
Marta C. González University of California, Berkeley
Paulo Ferrão
Paulo Ferrão Instituto Superior Técnico
Jyotirmay Mathur
Jyotirmay Mathur Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur
Yingxin Zhu
Yingxin Zhu Tsinghua University
Roberto Lamberts
Roberto Lamberts Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Stefano Schiavon
Stefano Schiavon University of California, Berkeley
Marilyne Andersen
Marilyne Andersen École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Edward Ng
Edward Ng Chinese University of Hong Kong
John D. Spengler
John D. Spengler Harvard University

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