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William O'Brien

William O'Brien

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
49
Citations
8892
World Ranking
4326
National Ranking
180

Overview

William O'Brien is affiliated with Carleton University in Canada and is engaged primarily in engineering research. The focus of their work lies within the domains of building and construction, environmental engineering, social psychology, speech and hearing, and electrical and electronic engineering. Their research contributions span topics related to building energy and comfort optimization, facilities and workplace management, noise effects and management, wind and air flow studies, sustainable building design and assessment, urban heat island mitigation, and work-family balance challenges.

The scientist has contributed extensively to publication venues that include:

  • Building and Environment
  • Energy and Buildings
  • Science and Technology for the Built Environment
  • Building Simulation Conference proceedings
  • Journal of Building Performance Simulation

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by William O'Brien include:

  • Introducing IEA EBC annex 79: Key challenges and opportunities in the field of occupant-centric building design and operation, 2020, Building and Environment
  • Does telecommuting save energy? A critical review of quantitative studies and their research methods, 2020, Energy and Buildings
  • An international review of occupant-related aspects of building energy codes and standards, 2020, Building and Environment

Frequent co-authors collaborating with William O'Brien are:

  • Burak Gunay
  • Marianne F. Touchie
  • H. Burak Gunay
  • Pedram Nojedehi
  • Tianzhen Hong

William O'Brien's work is situated in the field of engineering with a significant number of publications focusing specifically on building and construction. Their research addresses both technical aspects such as energy optimization and airflow studies, as well as human-centered factors related to occupant comfort, workplace management, and social considerations within built environments.

Best Publications

  • Occupant behavior modeling for building performance simulation: Current state and future challenges:

    Da Yan;William O’Brien;Tianzhen Hong;Xiaohang Feng

  • Assessing gaps and needs for integrating building performance optimization tools in net zero energy buildings design

    Shady Galal Mohamed Attia;Mohamed Hamdy;William O'Brien;Salvatore Carlucci

  • The contextual factors contributing to occupants' adaptive comfort behaviors in offices – A review and proposed modeling framework

    William O'Brien;H. Burak Gunay

  • A critical review of observation studies, modeling, and simulation of adaptive occupant behaviors in offices

    H. Burak Gunay;William O'Brien;Ian Beausoleil-Morrison

  • Manually-operated window shade patterns in office buildings: A critical review

    William O'Brien;Konstantinos Kapsis;Andreas K. Athienitis

  • Introducing IEA EBC annex 79: Key challenges and opportunities in the field of occupant-centric building design and operation

    William O'Brien;Andreas Wagner;Marcel Schweiker;Marcel Schweiker;Ardeshir Mahdavi

  • A critical review of field implementations of occupant-centric building controls

    June Young Park;Mohamed M. Ouf;Burak Gunay;Yuzhen Peng

  • Development and implementation of an adaptive lighting and blinds control algorithm

    H. Burak Gunay;William O'Brien;Ian Beausoleil-Morrison;Sara Gilani

  • Modelling, Design, and Optimization of Net-Zero Energy Buildings

    Andreas Athienitis;William O'Brien

  • A review of factors affecting occupant comfort in multi-unit residential buildings

    Maedot S. Andargie;Marianne Touchie;William O'Brien

  • Does telecommuting save energy? A critical review of quantitative studies and their research methods

    William O'Brien;Fereshteh Yazdani Aliabadi

  • Implementation and comparison of existing occupant behaviour models in EnergyPlus

    H. Burak Gunay;William O'Brien;Ian Beausoleil-Morrison

  • A review of select human-building interfaces and their relationship to human behavior, energy use and occupant comfort

    Julia K. Day;Claire McIlvennie;Connor Brackley;Mariantonietta Tarantini

  • On occupant-centric building performance metrics

    William Thomas O'Brien;Isabella Gaetani;Salvatore Carlucci;Pieter-Jan Hoes

  • Development and implementation of automated fault detection and diagnostics for building systems: A review

    Zixiao Shi;William O'Brien

  • An international review of occupant-related aspects of building energy codes and standards

    William O'Brien;Farhang Tahmasebi;Rune Korsholm Andersen;Elie Azar

  • Simulation-aided occupant-centric building design: a critical review of tools, methods, and applications

    Elie Azar;William O'Brien;Salvatore Carlucci;Salvatore Carlucci;Tianzhen Hong

  • A preliminary study of representing the inter-occupant diversity in occupant modelling

    William O’Brien;H. Burak Gunay;Farhang Tahmasebi;Ardeshir Mahdavi

  • A Global Building Occupant Behavior Database

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  • On adaptive occupant-learning window blind and lighting controls

    H. Burak Gunay;William O'Brien;Ian Beausoleil-Morrison;Brent Huchuk

  • Modeling plug-in equipment load patterns in private office spaces

    H. Burak Gunay;William O’Brien;Ian Beausoleil-Morrison;Sara Gilani

  • Comparison of machine learning models for occupancy prediction in residential buildings using connected thermostat data

    Brent Huchuk;Scott Sanner;William O'Brien

  • Oh behave! Survey stories and lessons learned from building occupants in high-performance buildings

    Julia K. Day;William O'Brien

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian Beausoleil-Morrison
Ian Beausoleil-Morrison Carleton University
Andreas K. Athienitis
Andreas K. Athienitis Concordia University
Scott Sanner
Scott Sanner University of Toronto
Bing Dong
Bing Dong Syracuse University
Tianzhen Hong
Tianzhen Hong Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Guy R. Newsham
Guy R. Newsham National Research Council Canada
Azam Khan
Azam Khan Trax.co
Shady Attia
Shady Attia University of Liège
Da Yan
Da Yan Tsinghua University
Christopher Kennedy
Christopher Kennedy University of Victoria

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