Journal
BUILDINGS
Volume 11, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/buildings11020041
Keywords
building; occupant behavior; modeling; energy conservation
Funding
- UGC under Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
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This paper provides a systematic review analysis on occupant behavior and different modeling approaches, highlighting six significant research gaps for future development. The study emphasizes the critical role of occupants' behavior in building energy conservation, yet there are relatively fewer studies in this area compared to physical factors.
Energy consumption in buildings depends on several physical factors, including its physical characteristics, various building services systems/appliances used, and the outdoor environment. However, the occupants' behavior that determines and regulates the building energy conservation also plays a critical role in the buildings' energy performance. Compared to physical factors, there are relatively fewer studies on occupants' behavior. This paper reports a systematic review analysis on occupant behavior and different modeling approaches using the Scopus and Science Direct databases. The comprehensive review study focuses on the current understanding of occupant behavior, existing behavior modeling approaches and their limitations, and key influential parameters on building energy conservation. Finally, the study identifies six significant research gaps for future development: occupant-centered space layout deployment; occupant behavior must be understood in the context of developing or low-income economies; there are higher numbers of quantitative occupant behavior studies than qualitative; the extensive use of survey or secondary data and the lack of real data used in model validation; behavior studies are required for diverse categories building; building information modeling (BIM) integration with existing occupant behavior modeling/simulation. These checklists of the gaps are beneficial for researchers to accomplish the future research in the built environment.
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