The impact of building occupant behavior on energy efficiency and methods to influence it: A review of the state of the art

A Paone, JP Bacher - Energies, 2018 - mdpi.com
Buildings consume a significant amount of energy, estimated at about one-third of total
primary energy resources. Building energy efficiency has turned out to be a major issue in …

Near-real-time plug load identification using low-frequency power data in office spaces: Experiments and applications

ZD Tekler, R Low, Y Zhou, C Yuen, L Blessing… - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Plug loads account for up to one-third of the overall energy use in commercial buildings.
There is thus a growing research interest in utilising load monitoring systems to track plug …

Promoting sustainability through behavior change: A review

A Coskun, J Zimmerman, C Erbug - Design Studies, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•We conducted a review on design for behavior change and sustainability.•We
characterized the current research, identified gaps and made recommendations for future …

FORCES: feedback and control for occupants to refine comfort and energy savings

DA Winkler, A Beltran, NP Esfahani, PP Maglio… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Humans spend 90% of their lives inside buildings, but often the Heating, Ventilation, and Air
Conditioning (HVAC) systems of commercial buildings do not properly maintain occupant …

Sustainability at Home: The Development of an Efficient Framework for Home Energy-Saving Applications

S Tongsubanan, K Kasemsarn - Designs, 2023 - mdpi.com
Energy consumption is increasing due to the rise in the world population, industrialization,
and urbanization, particularly in the residential sector, attributed to a lack of user-friendly …

Early-warning application for real-time detection of energy consumption anomalies in buildings

JS Chou, AS Telaga, WK Chong… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2017 - Elsevier
Energy consumption data must be presented to office occupants to encourage them to save
energy when in their office buildings. Therefore, this work develops an early warning …

What energy management practice can learn from research on energy culture?

JN Rotzek, C Scope, E Günther - … Accounting, Management and …, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose This investigation aims to reframe the sizeable literature on barriers and drivers for
energy efficiency measures (EEMs) and the phenomenon of the energy efficiency gap. The …

Beyond eco-feedback: adding online manual and automated controls to promote workplace sustainability

R Yun, A Aziz, P Scupelli, B Lasternas… - Proceedings of the 33rd …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Whereas eco-feedback has been widely studied in HCI and environmental psychology,
online manual control and automated control have been rarely studied with a focus on their …

Understanding the deterministic and probabilistic business cases for occupant based plug load management strategies in commercial office buildings

S Wang, AA Kim, EM Johnson - Applied Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Plug load monitoring and associated occupant behavior interventions can play a critical role
in reducing commercial building energy consumption. This study investigates whether the …

Integrating sustainability into day-to-day business: a tactical management dashboard for O-LCA

V Büdel, A Fritsch, A Oberweis - … of the 7th International Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
In order to respond to the challenge of sustainable development, organizations need to
manage the social, environmental and economic impacts of their activities. Existing …