University Building Energy Consumption and Indoor Environment Quality: A Review of Optimization Strategies

Under the background of current shortage of energy and pollution of environment, efficient control and collaborative optimization strategies for building energy consumption and indoor environmental quality had aroused great concern. However, the optimization of building energy consumption and environmental system was deemed as a comprehensive, iterative, and complex process. There was important practical significance of meeting the upper limit of energy intensity, reducing resource waste and improving indoor air quality. This paper intended to illustrate the research status of optimization strategies for building energy consumption and indoor environment quality by reviewing previous literature taken university building as one targeted building type. The up-to-date main relational technical solutions were summarized for balancing energy consumption and indoor environment quality. Finally, the potential available strategies for optimizing the energy consumption and indoor environment quality in colleges were discussed to meet the requirements of energy intensity limits and indoor environment quality. This study could be a theoretical basis for follow-up researches on optimization strategies for public building energy consumption and indoor environment quality.

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