Dr. Juan Camilo Mahecha Zambrano

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ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8296-2542

Projects

• Design exploration and network integration of Underground Thermal Energy Storage for Cities / Project leader / ongoing
• An exploratory approach for the design of building-level multi-energy systems (B-MES), leveraging integration of renewables and grid-friendly operation / Team member / ongoing
• Swiss Seasonal Thermal Energy Storage Action Plan and Implementation / Team member / ongoing
• Decarbonisation of Cooling and Heating in Switzerland / Team member / ongoing
• Chinese Zero Emission Buildings with Swiss Know-How: Impact Study / Team member / completed
• From high-fidelity to data-driven building energy performance simulation / Team member / completed
• “Humans-in-the-loop” – An occupant-centric digital framework for sustainable building operation / Project leader / completed
• Occupant-centric, mobile, radiant panel cooling for increasing summer comfort in offices / Team member / completed
• TCology - Thermo-Chemical Network Ecology / Team member / completed

Publications

• Mahecha Zambrano, Juan; Baldini, Luca,

  2025.

  Integrating CFD and thermoregulation models : a novel framework for thermal comfort analysis of non-uniform indoor environments.

  Energy and Buildings.

  335(115570).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2025.115570

• Mahecha Zambrano, Juan; Gaetani, Isabella; Oberegger, Ulrich Filippi; Salvalai, Graziano,

  2023.

  Advancing and demonstrating the Impact Indices method to screen the sensitivity of building energy use to occupant behaviour.

  Building Simulation.

  16(7), pp. 1257-1272.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12273-023-1004-6

• Yigit, Sadik; Mahecha Zambrano, Juan; Baldini, Luca,

  2025.

  A GIS and bottom-up simulation-based framework to assess the role of zero-emission building standards in achieving low-carbon goals : insights from a case study for China[paper].

  In:

  Berardi, Umberto; António, Julieta; Simões, Nuno, eds.,

  Construction, Energy, Environment and Sustainability : Proceedings of CEES 2025 (Volume 2: Energy).

  3rd International Conference on Construction, Energy, Environment and Sustainability (CEES), Bari, Italy, 11-13 June 2025.

  Singapore:

  Springer.

  pp. 413-422.

  Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering ; 744.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-1826-5_44

• Mahecha Zambrano, Juan; Baldini, Luca,

  2025.

  Energy and thermal comfort performance of occupant-centric radiant cooling systems : linking CFD, thermoregulation, and building performance simulations[paper].

  In:

  Journal of Physics: Conference Series.

  CISBAT Hybrid International Scientific Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, 3-5 September 2025.

  IOP Publishing.

  pp. 072004.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/3140/7/072004

• Baldini, Luca; Mahecha Zambrano, Juan,

  2025.

  Exploring the feasibility of thermochemical networks in district heating applications with high renewable fraction[paper].

  In:

  Journal of Physics: Conference Series.

  CISBAT Hybrid International Scientific Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, 3-5 September 2025.

  IOP Publishing.

  pp. 022014.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/3140/2/022014

• Baldini, Luca; Zambrano, Juan Mahecha,

  2023.

  Thermochemical storage networks for integration of renewable energy sources through seasonal load shifting[paper].

  In:

  Journal of Physics: Conference Series.

  CISBAT International Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, 13-15 September 2023.

  IOP Publishing.

  pp. 42001.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2600/4/042001

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