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Advances in research and applications of energy-related occupant behavior in buildings ☆

Rethinking the role of occupant behavior in building energy performance: A review

The “human dimensions” of energy use in buildings refer to the energy-related behaviors of key stakeholders that affect energy use over the building life cycle. Stakeholders include building designers, operators, managers, engineers, occupants, industry, vendors, and policymakers, who directly or indirectly influence the acts of designing, constructing, living, operating, managing, and regulating the built environments, from individual building up to the urban scale. Among factors driving high-performance buildings, human dimensions play a role that is as significant as that of technological advances. However, this factor is not well understood, and, as a result, human dimensions are often ignored or simplified by stakeholders. This paper presents a review of the literature on human dimensions of building energy use to assess the state-of-the-art in this topic area. The paper highlights research needs for fully integrating human dimensions into the building design and operation processes with the goal of reducing energy use in buildings while enhancing occupant comfort and productivity. This research focuses on identifying key needs for each stakeholder involved in a building’s life cycle and takes an interdisciplinary focus that spans the fields of architecture and engineering design, sociology, data science, energy policy, codes, and standards to provide targeted insights. Greater understanding of the human dimensions of energy use has several potential benefits including reductions in operating cost for building owners; enhanced comfort conditions and productivity for building occupants; more effective building energy management and automation systems for building operators and energy managers; and the integration of more accurate control logic into the next generation of human-in-the-loop technologies. The review concludes by summarizing recommendations for policy makers and industry stakeholders for developing codes, standards, and technologies that can leverage the human dimensions of energy use to reliably predict and achieve energy use reductions in the residential and commercial buildings sectors.

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The human dimensions of energy use in buildings: A review

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An ontology to represent energy-related occupant behavior in buildings. Part I: Introduction to the DNAs framework

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Occupancy schedules learning process through a data mining framework

Author(s): Hong, Tianzhen; Li, Cheng; Diamond, Richard; Yan, Da; Zhang, Qi; Zhou, Xin; Guo, Siyue; Sun, Kaiyu; Wang, Jingyi | Abstract: This report summarizes the technical tasks and key findings of the integrated design for high performance buildings, a project funded under the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center for Building Energy Efficiency. Main outcomes include: (1) Integrated design, operations and occupant behavior during the building life cycle is the key to high performance and low energy buildings. Technologies alone do not guarantee low energy buildings. Best practice of operations and energy friendly occupant behavior play a significant role in energy performance of buildings. The integrated design workshop and case studies directly support the design and operations of five demonstration buildings in China. (2) The simulation framework improves the way we evaluate technologies andbuilding performance by considering various uncertainties and investment risks. Itcan be adopted in the building code and standards development, code compliancecalculations, and performance ratings. It provides a clear pathway to understandand assess the gap between expected performance during design and actualperformance during operations. (3) Data and information exchange across various disciplines of building design and operations are crucial to improve knowledge sharing and timely decision making. The preliminary research of the information exchange feeds into the development of results schema of EnergyPlus.

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Siyue Guo

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Integrated Design for High Performance Buildings