Does telecommuting save energy? A critical review of quantitative studies and their research methods

W O'Brien, FY Aliabadi - Energy and buildings, 2020 - Elsevier
Teleworking has been widely perceived as a more sustainable mode of working for
knowledge workers compared to the status quo of commuting to centralized offices because …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of occupants' behaviours on building energy analysis: A research review

E Delzendeh, S Wu, A Lee, Y Zhou - Renewable and sustainable energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
Over the past 15 years, the evaluation of energy demand and use in buildings has become
increasingly acute due to growing scientific and political pressure around the world in …

Personal comfort models: Predicting individuals' thermal preference using occupant heating and cooling behavior and machine learning

J Kim, Y Zhou, S Schiavon, P Raftery, G Brager - Building and environment, 2018 - Elsevier
A personal comfort model is a new approach to thermal comfort modeling that predicts
individuals' thermal comfort responses, instead of the average response of a large …

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

Y Zhang, X Bai, FP Mills, JCV Pezzey - Energy and Buildings, 2018 - Elsevier
Technology alone will not achieve building energy conservation goals, and humans and
their energy-related behavior in buildings must be included in energy performance efforts …

[HTML][HTML] A critical review of occupant energy consumption behavior in buildings: How we got here, where we are, and where we are headed

X Xu, H Yu, Q Sun, VWY Tam - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Occupant behavior has been widely considered as one of the key influencing factors on
building energy consumption. The complexity of its formation mechanism and the dynamic …

The human dimensions of energy use in buildings: A review

S D'Oca, T Hong, J Langevin - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

Review of multi‐domain approaches to indoor environmental perception and behaviour

M Schweiker, E Ampatzi, MS Andargie… - Building and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Building occupants are continuously exposed to multiple indoor environmental stimuli,
including thermal, visual, acoustic, and air quality related factors. Moreover, personal and …

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

T Hong, SC Taylor-Lange, S D'Oca, D Yan… - Energy and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Occupant behavior is one of the major factors influencing building energy consumption and
contributing to uncertainty in building energy use prediction and simulation. Currently the …

Modeling occupant behavior in buildings

S Carlucci, M De Simone, SK Firth, MB Kjærgaard… - Building and …, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Review of 10 years research on building energy performance gap: Life-cycle and stakeholder perspectives

PXW Zou, X Xu, J Sanjayan, J Wang - Energy and Buildings, 2018 - Elsevier
The reliability, security, and sustainability of energy generation and supply are of global
importance and the building sector accounts for up to 32% of total energy consumption …