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BUILDING RESEARCH AND INFORMATION
Volume 38, Issue 2, Pages 175-186Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09613210903541527
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control systems; domestic heating; energy demand; habits; indoor environment; inhabitant behaviour; social convention; thermal comfort
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The user-centred approach to heat consumption in housing is a highly relevant, but often neglected, aspect of residential energy consumption. The practice-theory approach is presented as a development within the socio-technical approach. A detailed analysis of empirical evidence from different households living in similar buildings in a suburb of Copenhagen, Denmark, shows significant variation in energy consumption due to different usage patterns of both the house and its heating system. An analysis using practice-theory finds that technologies, embodied habits, knowledge, and meanings are the main components in the understanding of both what holds this practice together as a collectively shared practice and the different socio-material configurations of each of the individual households.
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