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

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 …

The objective of this study is to assess the potential of buildings to modulate the heating
power and define simple control strategies to exploit the flexibility potential considering both …

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-related inputs are significant parameters that influence energy simulation
accuracy at both the building and urban levels. In most previous research works, fixed …

Occupant behavior plays an important role in the evaluation of building performance.
However, many contextual factors, such as occupancy, mechanical system and interior …

Traditionally, in building energy modeling (BEM) programs, occupant behavior (OB) inputs
are deterministic and less indicative of real world scenarios, contributing to discrepancies …

Among all public buildings, on account of their educational purpose, school buildings have a
major social responsibility. Therefore energy performance in this type of building is of great …

Occupant behaviour has a large impact on the energy consumption of buildings, and
therefore a better understanding can assist in many building-related applications, such as …

We propose an advanced modelling framework to predict the scope and effects of
behavioural diversity regarding building occupant actions on window openings, shading …