William O'Brien

William O'Brien

Carleton University

H-index: 47

North America-Canada

About William O'Brien

William O'Brien, With an exceptional h-index of 47 and a recent h-index of 43 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Carleton University, specializes in the field of occupant behaviour, occupant behavior, indoor environmental quality, building simulation.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Impact of indoor environmental quality weighting schemes on office architectural design decisions

Do Peak Energy Loads and Peak GHG Emissions Correlate in Buildings? Insights from Emission Duration Curves and Emission Event Duration Curves Analysis

Spatio-temporal electrical grid emission factors effects on calculated GHG emissions of buildings in mixed-grid environments

Sustainability of telework: Systematic quantification of the impact of teleworking on the energy use and emissions of offices and homes

Household energy and comfort impacts under teleworking scenarios via a zoned residential HVAC system

Accounting for occupants in current building design and operation practice

Ten questions concerning the environmental impacts of housing built form

Exploring occupant detection model generalizability for residential buildings using supervised learning with IEQ sensors

William O'Brien Information

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Citations(all)

8525

Citations(since 2020)

6338

Cited By

4336

hIndex(all)

47

hIndex(since 2020)

43

i10Index(all)

126

i10Index(since 2020)

110

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William O'Brien Skills & Research Interests

occupant behaviour

occupant behavior

indoor environmental quality

building simulation

Top articles of William O'Brien

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Impact of indoor environmental quality weighting schemes on office architectural design decisions

Building and Environment

Arefeh Sadat Fathi

William O'Brien

2024/1/15

Do Peak Energy Loads and Peak GHG Emissions Correlate in Buildings? Insights from Emission Duration Curves and Emission Event Duration Curves Analysis

Journal of Cleaner Production

Max St-Jacques

Scott Bucking

William O’Brien

2024/5/2

Spatio-temporal electrical grid emission factors effects on calculated GHG emissions of buildings in mixed-grid environments

Science and Technology for the Built Environment

Max St-Jacques

Scott Bucking

William O’Brien

Iain Macdonald

2024/1/2

Sustainability of telework: Systematic quantification of the impact of teleworking on the energy use and emissions of offices and homes

Journal of Building Engineering

Farzam Sepanta

Melina Sirati

William O’Brien

2024/4/27

Household energy and comfort impacts under teleworking scenarios via a zoned residential HVAC system

Journal of Building Performance Simulation

Melina Sirati

William O'Brien

Cynthia A Cruickshank

2024/1/2

Accounting for occupants in current building design and operation practice

Runa T Hellwig

Stephanie Gauthier

Isabel Mino-Rodriguez

Marc Syndicus

Romana Marcovic

...

2024/4/11

Ten questions concerning the environmental impacts of housing built form

Building and Environment

Aldrick Arceo

William O'Brien

Marianne Touchie

2024/4/4

Exploring occupant detection model generalizability for residential buildings using supervised learning with IEQ sensors

Building and Environment

Kamilla Heimar Andersen

Hicham Johra

Markus Schaffer

Anna Marszal-Pomianowska

Henrik N Knudsen

...

2024/3/1

Pilot study to measure the energy and carbon impacts of teleworking.

Buildings & Cities

Sharane Simon

WILLIAM O'BRIEN

2023/1/1

Evaluating thermal resilience of building designs using building performance simulation–A review of existing practices

Chun Yin Siu

William O'Brien

Marianne Touchie

Marianne Armstrong

Abdelaziz Laouadi

...

2023/4/15

6 Introduction to Occupant Modeling

Occupant-Centric Simulation-Aided Building Design

William O’brien

Davide Calì

Marilena De Simone

Amir Tabadkani

Elie Azar

...

2023/5/31

Deployment of crowdsourced occupant data to support fault detection and diagnosis in buildings

Building and Environment

Pedram Nojedehi

Burak Gunay

William O'Brien

2023/8/15

Mitigating the negative impact of new buildings on existing buildings’ user comfort—a case study analysis

Simulation

Vinu Subashini Rajus

Nicolas Arellano Risopatron

William O’Brien

Gabriel Wainer

Stephen Fai

2023/11

Occupant-centric simulation-aided building design: theory, application, and case studies

William O’Brien

Farhang Tahmasebi

2023

A field study of the relationship between sound insulation and noise annoyance, activity disturbance and wellbeing in multi-unit residences

Applied Acoustics

Maedot S Andargie

Marianne Touchie

William O'Brien

Markus Müller-Trapet

2023/4/1

Occupant-centric performance metrics and performance targets

Tianzhen Hong

William O'Brien

Han Li

Jakob Hahn

Clarice Bleil de Souza

...

2023/5/31

Techno-economic and environmental performance of two state-of-the-art solar-assisted district energy system topologies

Energy

Nicholas Brunt

Jean Duquette

William O'Brien

2023/8/1

Ten questions concerning thermal resilience of buildings and occupants for climate adaptation

Building and Environment

Tianzhen Hong

Jeetika Malik

Amanda Krelling

William O'Brien

Kaiyu Sun

...

2023/10/1

International review of occupant aspects of building energy codes and standards

William O'Brien

Farhang Tahmasebi

Tianzhen Hong

2023/3/1

Evolving interaction: a qualitative investigation of user mental models for smart thermostat users

Architectural Science Review

Ruth Tamas

William O’Brien

Mario Santana Quintero

2023/5/4

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