Influence of occupant behaviour on indoor environmental quality and energy consumption

The research examines how energy is used in buildings and how the people behaviour affects their energy consumption. It explores the factors that affect energy use in the buildings and looks at the ways in which energy consumption can be reduced.ion to occupants, and the role of in-home displays such as smart meters. 

In particular, the research is focused on proposals of new probabilistic methodologies for taking into account the energy-related occupant’s behaviour in building energy simulation, a key phase in the prediction of energy use. First, the occupant behaviour should be statistically modelled, then randomly implemented into building dynamic energy simulation tolls to generate probabilistic curves of energy performances due to different behavioural patterns. Further, a particular aim of this research to assess how different building designs respond to differences in user’s interaction like window opening, and to determine if some designs are more robust towards changes in occupant behaviour by performing sensitivity analysis. 

Finally, the research is aimed at analysing the importance of providing guidance, feedback and information to occupants, and the role of in-home displays such as smart meters.

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