Bibliometric Analysis of Literature on Building Retro-Commissioning

Mengxue Lu¹, Sanduni Peiris¹, Joseph Lai¹

1. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Published in Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Built Environment (SASBE 2024), edited by Ali GhaffarianHoseini, Amirhosein GhaffarianHoseini, Farzad Rahimian and Mahesh Babu Purushothaman. Springer Nature, Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, volume 591, 2025, pages 381 to 388. DOI 10.1007/978-981-96-4051-5_37.

Abstract

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.

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Session

Presented in Recorded Presentations, Session III, Saturday 9 November 2024, 11:00 to 13:30, room WG 201, Auckland University of Technology. Session chair Dr Antonio Lara Hernandez.

How to Cite

Lu, M., Peiris, S., & Lai, J. (2025). Bibliometric Analysis of Literature on Building Retro-Commissioning. In A. GhaffarianHoseini, A. GhaffarianHoseini, F. Rahimian, & M. B. Purushothaman (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Built Environment (SASBE 2024) (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Vol. 591, pp. 381–388). Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-4051-5_37

About the Conference

Presented at SASBE 2024, the International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, held in Auckland from 7 to 9 November 2024 and chaired by Professors Ali and Amirhosein GhaffarianHoseini, founders of GDI Academy. The version of record is published by Springer Nature; this page is the conference archive record kept by GDI Academy.