Adaptive Built Environment Lab
Published Journal Papers (selected)
Singh, M., & Sharston, R. 2023. Normalized Urban Heat Island (UHI) Indicators: Classifying the Temporal Variation of UHI for Building Energy Simulation (BES) Applications. Building Simulation, Volume 16, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12273-023-1048-7.
Carney, J., Srinivasan, R., Bender, S., O’Dell, B., Sharston, R., Chini, A., & Foroutan, F. 2023. Advanced Modular Housing Design: Developing the CORE+, Cityspace, Volume 25 Number 1, https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape/vol25num1/article2.html
Satola, D., Wiberg, A. H., Singh, M., Babu, S., James, B., Dixit, M., Sharston, R., Grynberg, Y., Gustavsen, A. 2022. Comparative review of international approaches to net-zero buildings: Knowledge-sharing initiative to develop design strategies for greenhouse gas emissions reduction, Energy for Sustainable Development, Volume 71, Pages 291-306, ISSN 0973-0826, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0973082622001880
Singh, M., & Sharston, R. 2022. Quantifying the dualistic nature of urban heat Island effect (UHI) on building energy consumption, Energy and Buildings, Volume 255, 111649, ISSN 0378-7788, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378778821009336
Singh M, Sharston R. 2022. A literature review of building energy simulation and computational fluid dynamics co-simulation strategies and its implications on the accuracy of energy predictions. Building Services Engineering Research and Technology. 43(1):113-138. doi:10.1177/01436244211020465. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01436244211020465?journalCode=bsea
Sharston, R., Murray, S. 2019. The combined effects of thermal mass and insulation on energy performance in concrete office buildings, Advances in Building Energy Research, 14:3, 322-337. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17512549.2018.1547220?journalCode=taer20
Yi K., Y., Sharston, R., and Barakat, D. 2019. Auxetic Structures and advanced daylight control systems, Journal of Façade Design and Engineering, Vol 7 No 1. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3363459.3363538
Kang, H., Sharston, R., Shen, J., & Hayes, R. 2023. The impact of adaptive street lighting on perceived safety: Comparative analysis using Virtual Reality. LEUKOS (Under Revision).
Singh, M., & Sharston, R. 2022. Resilience of zero energy buildings: A parametric analysis, Building Research and Information (Under Review).
Shen, J., Sharston, R., Kang, H., & Hayes, R. 2023. Investigating the effects of dynamic street lighting on pedestrians’ perceived safety using mixed method analysis. Lighting Research & Technology (Under Review).
Sharston, R., & Shen, J. 2023. Utilization of auxetic structures in advanced shading systems to improve lighting and thermal performance in Florida, USA. Energy and Buildings (Under Preparation).
Singh, M., & Sharston, R. 2023. Evaluating the role of geographical and climatic variables in the inter-city variations of atmospheric UHI intensity: A case study of 15 cities in the United States (Under Preparation).
Singh, M., & Sharston, R. 2023. Critical evaluation of the spatio-temporal behavior of UHI, through correlation analyses based on a multi-city dataset (Under Preparation).
Singh, M., & Sharston, R. 2023. Location- Independent Empirical Models to Quantify the Spatio-Temporal Variation of UHI Intensity (Under Preparation).
Shen, J., Singh, M., & Sharston, R. 2022. Street lighting and perceived safety: A Critical Review of Experimental Methods (Under Preparation).
Conference Proceedings (selected)
Shen, J. & Sharston, R. "Adaptive Auxetic Shading Systems: Evaluating Lighting, Glare, and Thermal Control in Subtropical Environments." eSim 2024 Intelligent Design & Operation for Built Environment, Edmonton, Canada (Under Review)
Sharston, R., Shen, J., & Singh, M. “Utilization of auxetic structures in advanced shading systems to improve lighting and thermal performance in Florida, USA.” Building Simulation 2023, International Building Performance Simulation Association, Shanghai, China. https://publications.ibpsa.org/conference/paper/?id=bs2023_1622
Singh, M., & Sharston, R. “Evaluating the spatial variation of heat wave intensity to enhance urban resilience”. CIB World building congress 2022, Melbourne, Australia. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/1101/2/022016/meta
Singh, M., & Sharston, R. “Evaluation of net zero energy buildings for climate resilience in southeast U.S.” The Architectural Research Centers Consortium & the European Association for Architectural Educators’ 2022 International Conference, March 2-5, 2022, Miami, FL. chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/http://www.arcc-arch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/ARCC-EAAE-2022_Proceedings_Digital-Version.pdf
Sharston, R., & Singh, M. The effects of diffuser location on thermal comfort in hospital recovery rooms. ASHRAE IAQ 2020: Indoor Environmental Quality Performance Approaches, May 4-6, 2022, Athens, Greece. https://www.proquest.com/openview/71d8029de3c3adadfe30fda273252c0d/1.pdf?cbl=5014767&pq-origsite=gscholar
Singh, M., & Sharston, R. Direct air capture technology: An investigation of net carbon impacts. Proceedings of AIA/ ACSA Intersections conference: Carbon, September 30 - Oct 2, 2020, Philadelphia, PA. https://www.acsa-arch.org/chapter/direct-air-capture-technology-an-investigation-of-net-carbon-impacts/
Sharston, R. “Advanced Daylight Admission Systems Using Auxetic Structures in Florida, USA.” The 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys 2019), November 13-14, 2019, New York, NY, USA. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3363459.3363538
Sharston, Ryan, Yi Kyu, Yun, and Barakat, Dua, 2019, Auxetic Structures and Advanced Daylight Control Systems, PowerSkin Conference 2019, Munich, Germany, January 17-2019
Workshop
Shen, J., & Sharston, R. "Optimizing lighting performance and thermal comfort in Florida: An innovative approach to auxetic shading design." 28th International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment, Interdisciplinary Environmental Association, Virtual, October 19-21, 2023.