Building occupants are continuously exposed to multiple indoor environmental stimuli,
including thermal, visual, acoustic, and air quality related factors. Moreover, personal and …

In the last four decades several methods have been used to model occupants' presence and
actions (OPA) in buildings according to different purposes, available computational power …

Occupant Behavior (OB) is one of the major drivers of building energy consumption.
However, OB is usually oversimplified in Building Performance Simulation (BPS), resulting …

Buildings account for over 32% of total society energy consumption, and to make buildings
more energy efficient dynamic building performance simulation has been widely adopted …

Urban building energy models aspire to become key planning tools for the holistic
optimization of buildings, urban design, and energy systems in neighborhoods and districts …

Occupant behaviour has a direct impact on building energy consumption. A better
understanding of human-building interactions enables to describe with higher accuracy the …

People spend more than 90% of their life time in buildings, which makes occupant behavior
one of the leading influences of energy consumption in buildings. Occupancy and occupant …

Abstract Occupant-Centric Control and Operation (OCC) represents a transformative
approach to building management, integrating sensing of indoor environmental quality …

With the rise of concern about newly-designed or retrofitted buildings to have robust
performance under different realistic scenarios, it is of vital importance to providing reliable …

A major challenge to fully achieve the natural ventilation (NV) potential in green buildings is
the control and coordination of windows and the HVAC system. Three main types of control …