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James O'Donnell

James O'Donnell

1 Cyclotron Road MS 90R3111
Berkeley CA 94720
Office Location: 90-3111B
(510) 486-4146

James O'Donnell is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Building Technology and Urban Systems Department. His current work focuses on the development and deployment of interoperable data models to support CAD and whole building energy simulation tools. In addition to technical research and consulting, he teaches a course on building performance analysis. Prior to joining LBNL, he worked at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG). James has a degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a Ph.D. in holistic building performance analysis from University College Cork, Ireland.

This publications database is an ongoing project, and not all Division publications are represented here yet.

Publications

2013

O'Donnell, James, Tobias Maile, Cody Rose, Natasa Mrazovic, Elmer Morrissey, Cynthia Regnier, Kristen Parrish, and Vladimir Bazjanac. Transforming BIM to BEM: Generation of Building Geometry for the NASA Ames Sustainability Base BIM., 2013. Download: PDF (2.98 MB)

2012

Maile, Tobias, Mangesh Basarkar, James O'Donnell, Philip Haves, and Kevin Settlemyer. "Mapping Hvac Systems for Simulation In EnergyPlus." In SimBuild 2012 IBPSA Conference. Madison, WI, USA, 2012. Download: PDF (1.24 MB)

2011

Maile, Tobias, Vladimir Bazjanac, James O'Donnell, and Matthew Garr. "A software tool to compare measured and simulated building energy performance data." In IBPSA Building Simulation 2011. Sydney, Australia, 2011. Download: PDF (771.35 KB)
Bazjanac, Vladimir, Tobias Maile, Cody Rose, James O'Donnell, Natasa Mrazovic, Elmer Morrissey, and Benjamin Welle. "An Assessment of the use of Building Energy Performance Simulation in Early Design." In IBPSA Building Simulation 2011. Sydney, Australia, 2011.
Rafferty, Paul, Marcus Keane, and James O'Donnell. "Calibrating whole building energy models: An evidence-based methodology." Energy and Buildings 43, no. 9 (2011): 2356-2364.
Bazjanac, Vladimir, Tobias Maile, James O'Donnell, Cody Rose, and Natasa Mrazovic. "Data Enviroments and Processing in Sem-Automated Simulation with EnergyPlus." In CIB W078-W102. Sophia Antipolis, France, 2011.
See, Richard, Philip Haves, Pramod Sreekanathan, Mangesh Basarkar, James O'Donnell, and Kevin Settlemyer. "Development of a user interface for the EnergyPlus whole building energy simulation program." In IBPSA Building Simulation 2011. Sydney, Australia, 2011.
Torrens, Ignacio J., Marcus Keane, Andrea Costa, and James O'Donnell. "Multi-Criteria Optimisation using Past, Real Time and Predictive Performance Benchmarks." Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory 19, no. 4 (2011): 1258-1265.
O'Donnell, James, Richard See, Cody Rose, Tobias Maile, Vladimir Bazjanac, and Philip Haves. "SimModel: A domain data model for whole building energy simulation." In IBPSA Building Simulation 2011., 2011. Download: PDF (1.16 MB)
Corry, Edward, Marcus Keane, James O'Donnell, and Andrea Costa. "Systematic Development of an Operational BIM Utilising Simulation and Performance Data in Building Operation,." In IBPSA Building Simulation 2011. Sydney, Australia, 2011.

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