| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Contrasting the capabilities of building energy performance simulation programs | Building and Environment | 2008 | 1,152 |
| 2 | Life cycle assessment of building materials: Comparative analysis of energy and environmental impacts and evaluation of the eco-efficiency improvement potential | Building and Environment | 2011 | 899 |
| 3 | Theory and applications of HVAC control systems – A review of model predictive control (MPC) | Building and Environment | 2014 | 815 |
| 4 | Literature survey on how different factors influence human comfort in indoor environments | Building and Environment | 2011 | 790 |
| 5 | Photocatalytic oxidation for indoor air purification: a literature review | Building and Environment | 2003 | 785 |
| 6 | Performance characteristics and practical applications of common building thermal insulation materials | Building and Environment | 2005 | 713 |
| 7 | Numerical study on the effects of aspect ratio and orientation of an urban street canyon on outdoor thermal comfort in hot and dry climate | Building and Environment | 2006 | 710 |
| 8 | Ventilation performance prediction for buildings: A method overview and recent applications | Building and Environment | 2009 | 699 |
| 9 | Temperature decreases in an urban canyon due to green walls and green roofs in diverse climates | Building and Environment | 2008 | 689 |
| 10 | A review of bottom-up building stock models for energy consumption in the residential sector | Building and Environment | 2010 | 679 |
| 11 | Computational Fluid Dynamics for urban physics: Importance, scales, possibilities, limitations and ten tips and tricks towards accurate and reliable simulations | Building and Environment | 2015 | 661 |
| 12 | A study on the cooling effects of greening in a high-density city: An experience from Hong Kong | Building and Environment | 2012 | 655 |
| 13 | Photocatalytic construction and building materials: From fundamentals to applications | Building and Environment | 2009 | 603 |
| 14 | Urban building energy modeling – A review of a nascent field | Building and Environment | 2016 | 600 |
| 15 | Applying multi-objective genetic algorithms in green building design optimization | Building and Environment | 2005 | 572 |
| 16 | Mechanical properties of concrete with recycled coarse aggregate | Building and Environment | 2007 | 563 |
| 17 | Life cycle assessment in buildings: State-of-the-art and simplified LCA methodology as a complement for building certification | Building and Environment | 2009 | 554 |
| 18 | Solid wastes generation in India and their recycling potential in building materials | Building and Environment | 2007 | 549 |
| 19 | A field study of thermal comfort in outdoor and semi-outdoor environments in subtropical Sydney Australia | Building and Environment | 2003 | 546 |
| 20 | The cooling effect of green spaces as a contribution to the mitigation of urban heat: A case study in Lisbon | Building and Environment | 2011 | 542 |
| 21 | Approaches to study Urban Heat Island – Abilities and limitations | Building and Environment | 2010 | 533 |
| 22 | Multiobjective optimization of building design using TRNSYS simulations, genetic algorithm, and Artificial Neural Network | Building and Environment | 2010 | 530 |
| 23 | Thermal perception, adaptation and attendance in a public square in hot and humid regions | Building and Environment | 2009 | 529 |
| 24 | A low energy building in a life cycle—its embodied energy, energy need for operation and recycling potential | Building and Environment | 2002 | 522 |
| 25 | Application of latent heat thermal energy storage in buildings: State-of-the-art and outlook | Building and Environment | 2007 | 517 |
| 26 | Thermal comfort in outdoor urban spaces: Analysis across different European countries | Building and Environment | 2006 | 503 |
| 27 | Occupant productivity and office indoor environment quality: A review of the literature | Building and Environment | 2016 | 497 |
| 28 | A theoretical adaptive model of thermal comfort – Adaptive Predicted Mean Vote (aPMV) | Building and Environment | 2009 | 496 |
| 29 | Modeling crowd evacuation of a building based on seven methodological approaches | Building and Environment | 2009 | 488 |
| 30 | Shading effect on long-term outdoor thermal comfort | Building and Environment | 2010 | 486 |
| 31 | Occupants' window opening behaviour: A literature review of factors influencing occupant behaviour and models | Building and Environment | 2012 | 485 |
| 32 | Towards adoption of prefabrication in construction | Building and Environment | 2007 | 460 |
| 33 | Investigation of thermal benefits of rooftop garden in the tropical environment | Building and Environment | 2003 | 459 |
| 34 | Application of life-cycle assessment to early stage building design for reduced embodied environmental impacts | Building and Environment | 2013 | 457 |
| 35 | Acoustic characterization of natural fibers for sound absorption applications | Building and Environment | 2015 | 437 |
| 36 | A techno-economic comparison of ground-coupled and air-coupled heat pump system for space cooling | Building and Environment | 2007 | 436 |
| 37 | Thermal evaluation of vertical greenery systems for building walls | Building and Environment | 2010 | 436 |
| 38 | Surface heat budget on green roof and high reflection roof for mitigation of urban heat island | Building and Environment | 2007 | 429 |
| 39 | Outdoor thermal comfort within five different urban forms in the Netherlands | Building and Environment | 2015 | 428 |
| 40 | Review of permeable pavement systems | Building and Environment | 2007 | 427 |
| 41 | Building houses with local materials: means to drastically reduce the environmental impact of construction | Building and Environment | 2001 | 422 |
| 42 | CFD simulation of cross-ventilation for a generic isolated building: Impact of computational parameters | Building and Environment | 2012 | 414 |
| 43 | Influence of urban geometry on outdoor thermal comfort in a hot dry climate: A study in Fez, Morocco | Building and Environment | 2006 | 408 |
| 44 | Developing a green building assessment tool for developing countries – Case of Jordan | Building and Environment | 2009 | 406 |
| 45 | European residential buildings and empirical assessment of the Hellenic building stock, energy consumption, emissions and potential energy savings | Building and Environment | 2007 | 405 |
| 46 | Derivation of the adaptive equations for thermal comfort in free-running buildings in European standard EN15251 | Building and Environment | 2010 | 402 |
| 47 | A model of human physiology and comfort for assessing complex thermal environments | Building and Environment | 2001 | 401 |
| 48 | Extending air temperature setpoints: Simulated energy savings and design considerations for new and retrofit buildings | Building and Environment | 2015 | 389 |
| 49 | Life-cycle energy use in office buildings | Building and Environment | 1996 | 385 |
| 50 | Life cycle of buildings, demolition and recycling potential: A case study in Turin, Italy | Building and Environment | 2009 | 384 |
