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Quantifying the Impact of Occupant Behavior in Mixed Mode Buildings
As systems in high performance buildings become more complex and manually operable windows and shading devices are incorporated into advanced buildings, it is imperative that building engineers understand and account for the impacts that occupant behavior may have on building performance. By coupling building energy simulation models with stochastic occupant behavior models, the magnitude and distribution of impacts that occupants have on building energy consumption are demonstrated via a simulation study. The results show that occupant actions can increase or decrease energy consumption depending on the HVAC control strategy implemented. For a single month during the cooling season, the range of HVAC electricity consumption predicted by a set of simulations that included stochastic models of occupant window, blind, and lighting use varied by approximately 20% for each of 25 different control scenarios.
Quantifying the Impact of Occupant Behavior in Mixed Mode Buildings
As systems in high performance buildings become more complex and manually operable windows and shading devices are incorporated into advanced buildings, it is imperative that building engineers understand and account for the impacts that occupant behavior may have on building performance. By coupling building energy simulation models with stochastic occupant behavior models, the magnitude and distribution of impacts that occupants have on building energy consumption are demonstrated via a simulation study. The results show that occupant actions can increase or decrease energy consumption depending on the HVAC control strategy implemented. For a single month during the cooling season, the range of HVAC electricity consumption predicted by a set of simulations that included stochastic models of occupant window, blind, and lighting use varied by approximately 20% for each of 25 different control scenarios.
Quantifying the Impact of Occupant Behavior in Mixed Mode Buildings
Tanner, Ryan A. (author) / Henze, Gregor P. (author)
Architectural Engineering Conference 2013 ; 2013 ; State College, Pennsylvania, United States
AEI 2013 ; 246-255
2013-04-05
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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