Publications

Access peer-reviewed publications and research outputs from BEACON. This work contributes to advancing digital twins, building performance analytics, and low-carbon building systems.

Healthcare Digital Twins

Fatehijananloo, M. and McArthur, J.J., 2026. Explainable Machine Learning for Hospital Heating Plants: Feature-Driven Modeling and Analysis (external link) . Buildings, 16(2), p.397. 

Kandil, M.S. and McArthur, J.J., 2026. Symbolic regression for data-efficient cooling load forecasting in real-world HVAC systems (external link) . Energy and Buildings, p.117244.

FatehiJananloo, M. and McArthur, J., 2025, July. Development of a Dynamic Grey-box a Condensing Boiler Emulator. In EC3 Conference 2025 (Vol. 6, pp. 0-0). European Council on Computing in Construction.

Fatehijananloo, M., Stopps, H. and McArthur, J.J., 2024. Exploring artificial intelligence methods for energy prediction in healthcare Facilities: An In-Depth extended systematic review (external link) . Energy and Buildings, 320, p.114598. doi: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2024.114598 (external link) .

FatehiJananloo, M., Stopps, H. and McArthur, J.J., 2024, August. Data Mining and Feature Selection in Large Hospital Central Heating Plant (external link) . In International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (pp. 311-322). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

Kandil, M.S., Chang, G. and McArthur, J.J., 2024, August. Efficient and Rapid Optimal Chiller Loading Using a Simplified Two-Stage Algorithm (external link) . In International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (pp. 238-251). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

City Retrofit

Adebisi, J. and McArthur, J.J., 2025. HVAC characterisation of existing Canadian buildings for decarbonisation retrofit identification (external link) . Buildings & Cities, 6(1).

Bagherzadeh, H., Malekghasemi, A. and McArthur, J.J., 2025. Retrofitting for the future: Analysing the sensitivity of various retrofits to future climate scenarios while maintaining thermal comfort (external link) . Energy and Buildings, 327, p.115004. doi: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2024.115004 (external link) .

Dana Al Jadaa and McArthur, J.J., 2024., (PDF file)  Development of Granular Archetypes for Canadian Existing Commercial Office and Multi-Unit Residential Buildings in Climate Zone 5 (external link) . eSIM 2024 Conference, Edmonton.