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Occupant Non-Energy Impact Identification Framework: A human-centered approach to understanding residential energy retrofits
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6325-3377
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9008-7175
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9808-8164
Highlights Occupant non-energy impacts (NEIs) from energy retrofit studies were reviewed. Varied approaches to NEI identification and categorization impedes comparisons. Proposed Occupant NEI Identification Framework offers systematic approach. Framework identifies physiological, psychological, economic, practical, and sociological NEIs. Framework links energy retrofits to NEIs through technologies’ functional outcomes.
Abstract Residential energy retrofits have the potential to generate significant non-energy impacts (NEIs) on occupants, but the understanding of those NEIs has been hampered by the lack of a shared approach to studying them. A detailed literature review revealed several common tendencies that limit the generalizability of findings, including a focus on benefits, different categorization schemes, varied scope and specificity, the conflation of impacts across occupant groups, and conflation of retrofits’ functional outcomes with occupant impacts. This paper suggests a more systematic way of conceptualizing NEIs is needed and proposes a new framework that supports a comprehensive, unbiased, human-centered, and standardized approach. Building on the findings of the literature review, the Occupant NEI Identification Framework (ONEII Framework2 Occupant NEI Identification Framework (ONEII Framework).) identifies five types of occupant NEIs (physiological, psychological, economic, practical, and sociological) and provides a structure to identify and categorize the potential NEIs generated by individual retrofit technologies by linking them to the functional outcomes of the technologies. The ONEII framework can be applied to any residential retrofit technology and can enable researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to examine and maximize the potential value of occupant NEIs more holistically and consistently.
Occupant Non-Energy Impact Identification Framework: A human-centered approach to understanding residential energy retrofits
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6325-3377
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9008-7175
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9808-8164
Highlights Occupant non-energy impacts (NEIs) from energy retrofit studies were reviewed. Varied approaches to NEI identification and categorization impedes comparisons. Proposed Occupant NEI Identification Framework offers systematic approach. Framework identifies physiological, psychological, economic, practical, and sociological NEIs. Framework links energy retrofits to NEIs through technologies’ functional outcomes.
Abstract Residential energy retrofits have the potential to generate significant non-energy impacts (NEIs) on occupants, but the understanding of those NEIs has been hampered by the lack of a shared approach to studying them. A detailed literature review revealed several common tendencies that limit the generalizability of findings, including a focus on benefits, different categorization schemes, varied scope and specificity, the conflation of impacts across occupant groups, and conflation of retrofits’ functional outcomes with occupant impacts. This paper suggests a more systematic way of conceptualizing NEIs is needed and proposes a new framework that supports a comprehensive, unbiased, human-centered, and standardized approach. Building on the findings of the literature review, the Occupant NEI Identification Framework (ONEII Framework2 Occupant NEI Identification Framework (ONEII Framework).) identifies five types of occupant NEIs (physiological, psychological, economic, practical, and sociological) and provides a structure to identify and categorize the potential NEIs generated by individual retrofit technologies by linking them to the functional outcomes of the technologies. The ONEII framework can be applied to any residential retrofit technology and can enable researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to examine and maximize the potential value of occupant NEIs more holistically and consistently.
Occupant Non-Energy Impact Identification Framework: A human-centered approach to understanding residential energy retrofits
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6325-3377
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9008-7175
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9808-8164
Highlights Occupant non-energy impacts (NEIs) from energy retrofit studies were reviewed. Varied approaches to NEI identification and categorization impedes comparisons. Proposed Occupant NEI Identification Framework offers systematic approach. Framework identifies physiological, psychological, economic, practical, and sociological NEIs. Framework links energy retrofits to NEIs through technologies’ functional outcomes.
Abstract Residential energy retrofits have the potential to generate significant non-energy impacts (NEIs) on occupants, but the understanding of those NEIs has been hampered by the lack of a shared approach to studying them. A detailed literature review revealed several common tendencies that limit the generalizability of findings, including a focus on benefits, different categorization schemes, varied scope and specificity, the conflation of impacts across occupant groups, and conflation of retrofits’ functional outcomes with occupant impacts. This paper suggests a more systematic way of conceptualizing NEIs is needed and proposes a new framework that supports a comprehensive, unbiased, human-centered, and standardized approach. Building on the findings of the literature review, the Occupant NEI Identification Framework (ONEII Framework2 Occupant NEI Identification Framework (ONEII Framework).) identifies five types of occupant NEIs (physiological, psychological, economic, practical, and sociological) and provides a structure to identify and categorize the potential NEIs generated by individual retrofit technologies by linking them to the functional outcomes of the technologies. The ONEII framework can be applied to any residential retrofit technology and can enable researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to examine and maximize the potential value of occupant NEIs more holistically and consistently.
Occupant Non-Energy Impact Identification Framework: A human-centered approach to understanding residential energy retrofits
Outcault, Sarah (author) / Sanguinetti, Angela (author) / Dessouky, Nermin (author) / Magaña, Cinthia (author)
Energy and Buildings ; 263
2022-03-23
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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