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April 22, 2026BuildingsOpen Access

Navigating the Trade-Off Between Decarbonization and Thermal Comfort: A Simulation-Driven Optimization for Office Buildings Under Health Constraints

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NLNingning LiXYXin YangYZYuxuan Zhao

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Overview

Simulation-driven optimization identifies strategies to balance carbon emissions and indoor comfort in office buildings, suggesting practical solutions for healthy environments.

Key Points

  • This research aims to optimize decarbonization efforts while maintaining thermal comfort in office buildings.
  • Utilized a simulation-driven multi-strategy optimization framework.
  • Integrated EnergyPlus, jEPlus+EA, and NSGA-II algorithm.
  • Evaluated impacts of various HVAC strategies and temperature differences on carbon emissions and comfort.
  • Identified night ventilation temperature turn-on difference as the most critical parameter affecting emissions and comfort.
  • Achieved a carbon footprint of approximately 477 tCO2 with only 8.8% indoor discomfort hours.
  • Found standardized regression coefficients of 0.7456 for carbon emissions and 0.5325 for thermal discomfort.

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Li et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69e8656e6e0dea528dde9e74https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings16081626
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