TY - GEN
T1 - Bibliometric Analysis of Literature on Building Retro-Commissioning
AU - Lu, Mengxue
AU - Peiris, Sanduni
AU - Lai, Joseph
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2025.
PY - 2025/4/20
Y1 - 2025/4/20
N2 - Buildings account for over one third of the global energy consumption. To optimize the energy use of buildings, retro-commissioning (RCx) as a systematic process to periodically check and improve existing buildings’ performance is helpful. While RCx has been increasingly promoted for adoption in buildings, its thorough implementation remains uncommon in practice, and the state of RCx research is unclear. Therefore, a comprehensive review of previous RCx studies was conducted through a bibliometric analysis of the literature. Following a systematic review approach, a total of 69 relevant research articles retrieved from ScienceDirect and Scopus were examined. The interconnections among the regions, journals and keywords of the articles were analyzed using the VOSviewer software. The analysis results reveal that the networks of the regions and journals are not extensive. While indicating the limited research on RCx, this finding implies the need for more effort to foster collaboration among regions and experts in this area. Furthermore, a network visualization of the articles’ keywords was obtained, which unveils the main themes of the past research work. As the first bibliometric analysis of literature on RCx, this study has portrayed a clear picture of the past and recent research endeavors in this field as well as future directions for RCx research.
AB - Buildings account for over one third of the global energy consumption. To optimize the energy use of buildings, retro-commissioning (RCx) as a systematic process to periodically check and improve existing buildings’ performance is helpful. While RCx has been increasingly promoted for adoption in buildings, its thorough implementation remains uncommon in practice, and the state of RCx research is unclear. Therefore, a comprehensive review of previous RCx studies was conducted through a bibliometric analysis of the literature. Following a systematic review approach, a total of 69 relevant research articles retrieved from ScienceDirect and Scopus were examined. The interconnections among the regions, journals and keywords of the articles were analyzed using the VOSviewer software. The analysis results reveal that the networks of the regions and journals are not extensive. While indicating the limited research on RCx, this finding implies the need for more effort to foster collaboration among regions and experts in this area. Furthermore, a network visualization of the articles’ keywords was obtained, which unveils the main themes of the past research work. As the first bibliometric analysis of literature on RCx, this study has portrayed a clear picture of the past and recent research endeavors in this field as well as future directions for RCx research.
KW - Bibliometric
KW - Commissioning
KW - Energy
KW - Retro-commissioning
KW - Review
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105003635390&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-96-4051-5_37
DO - 10.1007/978-981-96-4051-5_37
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:105003635390
SN - 9789819640508
T3 - Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
SP - 381
EP - 388
BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, SASBE 2024
A2 - GhaffarianHoseini, Ali
A2 - Ghaffarianhoseini, Amirhosein
A2 - Rahimian, Farzad
A2 - Babu Purushothaman, Mahesh
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - International Conference of Sustainable Development and Smart Built Environments, SDSBE 2024
Y2 - 7 November 2024 through 9 November 2024
ER -
