James O’Donnell

4.0k citations

117 papers · 2.9k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 29

Impact in

Building and Construction top 0.1%
- Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
- BIM and Construction Integration
- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
Environmental Engineering top 1%
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation

Papers in ⓘ

Building and Construction 89
- Building Energy and Comfort Optimization 64
- BIM and Construction Integration 34
- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment 13
Environmental Engineering 33
- Wind and Air Flow Studies 22
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation 9

Co-authors: Marcus Keane (16 shared papers)Mohammad Haris Shamsi (19 shared papers)Usman Ali (26 shared papers)Cathal Hoare (23 shared papers)Eleni Mangina (10 shared papers)Paul Raftery (3 shared papers)Edward Corry (11 shared papers)Donal Finn (17 shared papers)
Journals: Building and Environment (13 papers)Energy and Buildings (13 papers)Automation in Construction (8 papers)Applied Energy (6 papers)Advanced Engineering Informatics (4 papers)
Partner nations: Ireland United States United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

James O’Donnell

111 papers receiving 2.7k citations

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Review of urban building energy modeling (UBEM) approaches, methods and tools using qualitative and quantitative analysis 2021 · 203 citations

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1	Calibrating whole building energy models: An evidence-based methodology Energy and Buildings ·Paul Raftery, Marcus Keane, James O’Donnell	2011	227
2	Review of urban building energy modeling (UBEM) approaches, methods and tools using qualitative and quantitative analysis Energy and Buildings ·Usman Ali, Mohammad Haris Shamsi, Cathal Hoare, Eleni Mangina, James O’Donnell Hit paper breakdown →	2021	203
3	Linking building data in the cloud: Integrating cross-domain building data using linked data Advanced Engineering Informatics ·Edward Curry, James O’Donnell, Edward Corry, Souleiman Hasan, Marcus Keane, Seán Ó Riain	2012	168
4	United States energy and CO2 savings potential from deployment of near-infrared electrochromic window glazings Building and Environment ·Nicholas DeForest, Arman Shehabi, James O’Donnell, Guillermo García, Jeffery B. Greenblatt, Eleanor S. Lee, Stephen Selkowitz, Delia J. Milliron	2015	133
5	A data-driven approach for multi-scale GIS-based building energy modeling for analysis, planning and support decision making Applied Energy ·Usman Ali, Mohammad Haris Shamsi, Mark Bohacek, Karl Purcell, Cathal Hoare, Eleni Mangina, James O’Donnell	2020	122
6	MVD based information exchange between BIM and building energy performance simulation Automation in Construction ·Sérgio V. Pinheiro, Reinhard Wimmer, James O’Donnell, Sergej Muhič, Vladimir Bazjanac, Tobias Maile, Jérôme Frisch, Christoph van Treeck	2018	110
7	A data-driven approach to optimize urban scale energy retrofit decisions for residential buildings Applied Energy ·Usman Ali, Mohammad Haris Shamsi, Mark Bohacek, Cathal Hoare, Karl Purcell, Eleni Mangina, James O’Donnell	2020	99
8	Identification of representative buildings and building groups in urban datasets using a novel pre-processing, classification, clustering and predictive modelling approach Building and Environment ·Giovanni Tardioli, Ruth Kerrigan, Mike Oates, James O’Donnell, Donal Finn	2018	97
9	A performance assessment ontology for the environmental and energy management of buildings Automation in Construction ·Edward Corry, Pieter Pauwels, Shushan Hu, Marcus Keane, James O’Donnell	2015	92
10	Data Driven Approaches for Prediction of Building Energy Consumption at Urban Level Energy Procedia ·Giovanni Tardioli, Ruth Kerrigan, Mike Oates, James O’Donnell, Donal Finn	2015	83
11	A data-driven approach for multi-scale building archetypes development Energy and Buildings ·Usman Ali, Mohammad Haris Shamsi, Cathal Hoare, Eleni Mangina, James O’Donnell	2019	78
12	Urban building energy performance prediction and retrofit analysis using data-driven machine learning approach Energy and Buildings ·Usman Ali, Sobia Bano, Mohammad Haris Shamsi, Divyanshu Sood, Cathal Hoare, Wangda Zuo, Neil Hewitt, James O’Donnell	2023	74
13	Identifying stakeholders and key performance indicators for district and building energy performance analysis Energy and Buildings ·Yehong Li, James O’Donnell, Raúl García‐Castro, Sergio Vega-Sánchez	2017	65
14	Information modelling for urban building energy simulation—A taxonomic review Building and Environment ·Avichal Malhotra, Julian Bischof, Alexandru Nichersu, Karl‐Heinz Häfele, Johannes Exenberger, Divyanshu Sood, James Allan, Jérôme Frisch, Christoph van Treeck, James O’Donnell, Gerald Schweiger	2021	64
15	A comprehensive review of outdoor thermal comfort in urban areas: Effective parameters and approaches Energy & Environment ·Reihaneh Aghamolaei, Mohammad Azizi, Behnaz Aminzadeh, James O’Donnell	2022	62
16	SIMMODEL: A DOMAIN DATA MODEL FOR WHOLE BUILDING ENERGY SIMULATION eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·James O’Donnell	2013	56
17	Review of district-scale energy performance analysis: Outlooks towards holistic urban frameworks Sustainable Cities and Society ·Reihaneh Aghamolaei, Mohammad Haris Shamsi, Mohammad Tahsildoost, James O’Donnell	2018	55
18	Building energy performance assessment using linked data and cross-domain semantic reasoning Automation in Construction ·Shushan Hu, Jiale Wang, Cathal Hoare, Yehong Li, Pieter Pauwels, James O’Donnell	2021	48
19	Definition of a useful minimal-set of accurately-specified input data for Building Energy Performance Simulation Energy and Buildings ·James Egan, Donal Finn, Pedro Henrique Deogene Soares, Victor Andreas Rocha Baumann, Reihaneh Aghamolaei, Paul Beagon, Olivier Neu, Fabiano Pallonetto, James O’Donnell	2018	41
20	A framework for uncertainty quantification in building heat demand simulations using reduced-order grey-box energy models Applied Energy ·Mohammad Haris Shamsi, Usman Ali, Eleni Mangina, James O’Donnell	2020	40

About James O’Donnell

James O’Donnell is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Environmental Engineering, Architecture, Geology and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, having authored 117 papers that have together received 2.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (64 papers), BIM and Construction Integration (34 papers), Wind and Air Flow Studies (22 papers), Energy Efficiency and Management (21 papers), Sustainable Building Design and Assessment (13 papers), Semantic Web and Ontologies (11 papers), 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage (9 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Building and Construction (2.1k citations), Environmental Engineering (851 citations), Geology (291 citations), Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (406 citations) and Speech and Hearing (152 citations). James O’Donnell has collaborated with scholars based in Ireland, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Marcus Keane, Mohammad Haris Shamsi, Usman Ali, Cathal Hoare, Eleni Mangina, Paul Raftery, Edward Corry, Donal Finn, Shushan Hu and Edward Curry. Their work appears in journals such as Building and Environment, Energy and Buildings, Automation in Construction, Applied Energy and Advanced Engineering Informatics.

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