Occupant behavior in building energy simulation: Towards a fit-for-purpose modeling strategy

I Gaetani, PJ Hoes, JLM Hensen - Energy and Buildings, 2016 - Elsevier
Occupant behavior is nowadays acknowledged as a main source of discrepancy between
predicted and actual building performance; therefore, researchers attempt to model …

Validation of building energy modeling tools under idealized and realistic conditions

EM Ryan, TF Sanquist - Energy and buildings, 2012 - Elsevier
Building energy models provide valuable insight into energy use in commercial and
residential buildings based on architecture, materials and thermal loads. They are used in …

Actual and theoretical gas consumption in Dutch dwellings: What causes the differences?

D Majcen, L Itard, H Visscher - Energy Policy, 2013 - Elsevier
Energy labels in buildings are awarded based on theoretical gas and electricity
consumption based on dwelling's physical characteristics. Prior to this research, a large …

Energy performance sensitivity of a net-zero energy home to design and use specifications

J Kneifel, W Healy, J Filliben, M Boyd - Journal of Building …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of this report is to test the sensitivity of the energy performance of the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)'s Net Zero Energy Residential Test Facility …

Usage profiles for sustainable buildings

FI Vázquez, W Kastner - 2010 IEEE 15th Conference on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ultimate goal of sustainable homes and buildings is to work towards energy efficiency
automatically taking into account user comfort always acknowledging the residents' desires …

The potential of harnessing real-time occupancy data for improving energy performance of activity-based workplaces

A Brambilla, C Candido, I Hettiarachchi, L Thomas… - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
Currently, the available studies on the prediction of building energy performance and real
occupancy data are typically characterized by aggregated and averaged occupancy …

Occupant behavior and energy consumption in dwellings: An analysis of behavioral models and actual energy consumption in the dutch housing stock

M Bedir - A+ BE| Architecture and the Built Environment, 2017 - journals.open.tudelft.nl
Much is known about the increasing levels of energy consumption and environmental decay
caused by the built environment. Also, more and more attention is shown to the energy …

Behavioral profiles for building energy performance using exclusive som

FI Vázquez, SC Gaceo, W Kastner… - … Applications of Neural …, 2011 - Springer
The identification of user and usage profiles in the built environment is of vital importance
both for energy performance analysis and smart control purposes. Clustering tools are a …

[PDF][PDF] The Potential of Harnessing Real-Time Occupancy Data for Improving Energy Performance of Activity-Based Workplaces. Energies 2022, 15, 230

A Brambilla, C Candido, I Hettiarachchi, L Thomas… - 2021 - minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au
Currently, the available studies on the prediction of building energy performance and real
occupancy data are typically characterized by aggregated and averaged occupancy …

Smart home control based on behavioural profiles

F Iglesias Vázquez - 2012 - repositum.tuwien.at
Automation of homes and buildings is characterized by a high casuistry and a strong
interaction with users. Here, concepts like ubiquity and cooperativeness acquire an …