Energy waste in buildings due to occupant behaviour

Occupants’ behaviour has a significant impact on the energy performance of buildings. A good understanding of how occupants use a building provides a possibility of promoting the building’s energy efficiency through changing occupant behaviour. Building simulation has been adopted as a useful method...

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Main Authors: Pan, Song, Wang, Xingru, Wei, Shen, Xu, Chuanqi, Zhang, Xingxing, Xie, Jingchao, Tindall, Jess, de Wilde, Pieter
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Published: Elsevier 2017
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author Pan, Song
Wang, Xingru
Wei, Shen
Xu, Chuanqi
Zhang, Xingxing
Xie, Jingchao
Tindall, Jess
de Wilde, Pieter
author_facet Pan, Song
Wang, Xingru
Wei, Shen
Xu, Chuanqi
Zhang, Xingxing
Xie, Jingchao
Tindall, Jess
de Wilde, Pieter
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description Occupants’ behaviour has a significant impact on the energy performance of buildings. A good understanding of how occupants use a building provides a possibility of promoting the building’s energy efficiency through changing occupant behaviour. Building simulation has been adopted as a useful method by building engineers for quantifying the effects of changing occupant behaviour on the building’s energy consumption and indoor environment. However, due to the lack of real measured data with respect to how occupants use the building, such simulation work has relied on assumed behavioural patterns, which significantly reduces the reliability of the predicted results. This paper describes a longitudinal study monitoring occupants’ heating, window opening and cooling behaviour in an office building throughout summer, transitional and winter periods. These behavioural data were then used to drive dynamic building performance simulation to predict the energy saving potential of changing behaviour. Comparison with predicted results by assumed behavioural patterns reflected that improperly assumed behavioural patterns may either overestimate or underestimate the energy saving potential of changing behaviour, especially for unextreme behaviours.
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spelling nottingham-495792018-02-08T10:22:30Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49579/ Energy waste in buildings due to occupant behaviour Pan, Song Wang, Xingru Wei, Shen Xu, Chuanqi Zhang, Xingxing Xie, Jingchao Tindall, Jess de Wilde, Pieter Occupants’ behaviour has a significant impact on the energy performance of buildings. A good understanding of how occupants use a building provides a possibility of promoting the building’s energy efficiency through changing occupant behaviour. Building simulation has been adopted as a useful method by building engineers for quantifying the effects of changing occupant behaviour on the building’s energy consumption and indoor environment. However, due to the lack of real measured data with respect to how occupants use the building, such simulation work has relied on assumed behavioural patterns, which significantly reduces the reliability of the predicted results. This paper describes a longitudinal study monitoring occupants’ heating, window opening and cooling behaviour in an office building throughout summer, transitional and winter periods. These behavioural data were then used to drive dynamic building performance simulation to predict the energy saving potential of changing behaviour. Comparison with predicted results by assumed behavioural patterns reflected that improperly assumed behavioural patterns may either overestimate or underestimate the energy saving potential of changing behaviour, especially for unextreme behaviours. Elsevier 2017-05 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by_nc_nd https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49579/1/Energy%20waste%20in%20buildings%20due%20to%20occupant%20behaviour.pdf Pan, Song, Wang, Xingru, Wei, Shen, Xu, Chuanqi, Zhang, Xingxing, Xie, Jingchao, Tindall, Jess and de Wilde, Pieter (2017) Energy waste in buildings due to occupant behaviour. Energy Procedia, 105 . pp. 2233-2238. ISSN 1876-6102 Energy waste; Occupant behaviour; Office building; Building simulation https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876610217306902 doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.636 doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.636
spellingShingle Energy waste; Occupant behaviour; Office building; Building simulation
Pan, Song
Wang, Xingru
Wei, Shen
Xu, Chuanqi
Zhang, Xingxing
Xie, Jingchao
Tindall, Jess
de Wilde, Pieter
Energy waste in buildings due to occupant behaviour
title Energy waste in buildings due to occupant behaviour
title_full Energy waste in buildings due to occupant behaviour
title_fullStr Energy waste in buildings due to occupant behaviour
title_full_unstemmed Energy waste in buildings due to occupant behaviour
title_short Energy waste in buildings due to occupant behaviour
title_sort energy waste in buildings due to occupant behaviour
topic Energy waste; Occupant behaviour; Office building; Building simulation
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https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49579/