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 …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] In search of optimal consumption: A review of causes and solutions to the Energy Performance Gap in residential buildings

S Cozza, J Chambers, A Brambilla, MK Patel - Energy and Buildings, 2021 - Elsevier
The assessment of building performance through energy certificates is important for tracking
and improving the energy efficiency of the building stock. The reliability of these …

A review of studies applying machine learning models to predict occupancy and window-opening behaviours in smart buildings

X Dai, J Liu, X Zhang - Energy and Buildings, 2020 - Elsevier
This study carries out a literature review on studies using machine learning (ML) models to
predict occupancy and window-opening behaviour and their application in smart buildings …

Developing window behavior models for residential buildings using XGBoost algorithm

H Mo, H Sun, J Liu, S Wei - Energy and Buildings, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

Energy performance gap in refurbished German dwellings: Lesson learned from a field test

D Calì, T Osterhage, R Streblow, D Müller - Energy and buildings, 2016 - Elsevier
Low insulation standards and obsolete heating systems of a large amount of buildings in
Europe account for disproportional energy consumption. Within this project, the holistic …

A literature review on driving factors and contextual events influencing occupants' behaviours in buildings

F Stazi, F Naspi, M D'Orazio - Building and Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
The present paper illustrates the results of a literature review on occupants' behaviours,
assessing the actions' drivers. There is no general agreement about the reasons people …

A review of occupant behaviour in residential buildings

BF Balvedi, E Ghisi, R Lamberts - Energy and Buildings, 2018 - Elsevier
Occupant behaviour has a direct impact on building energy consumption. A better
understanding of human-building interactions enables to describe with higher accuracy the …

Bridging the energy performance gap of social housing stock in south-eastern Mediterranean Europe: Climate change and mitigation

B Ozarisoy, H Altan - Energy and Buildings, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Sustainable Development Goal# 7 calls for “access to affordable, reliable,
sustainable and modern energy for all.” Scientific evidence is growing that greenhouse-gas …