期刊
ENERGY AND BUILDINGS
卷 153, 期 -, 页码 99-110出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.07.068
关键词
Heating; Hot summer and cold winter (HSCW) zone; Residential energy usage; Occupant behavior
资金
- China Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development
- Ministry of Science & Technology, under the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center for Building Energy Efficiency [2016YFE0102300-05]
- Engineering Research Center Program of the National Science Foundation
- Department of Energy under NSF [EEC-1041877]
- CURENT Industry Partnership Program
- Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China [51521005]
The hot summer and cold winter zone (HSCW) plays a significant role in residential energy consumption in China because of climate, policy, and social-economic factors. Accordingly, occupant heating behaviors and associated social-psychological factors are essential elements in understanding energy consumption. This study presents a new investigation on the demographic factors, building characteristics, and social psychological motivations influencing current heating patterns and future heating intentions among 904 residents in the HSCW zone in China. Most residents surveyed selected the city-scale central-heating system as their future heating pattern, which might lead to a high level of energy consumption. Among demographics, family income was the main factor influencing residents' current heating patterns, followed by number of children and building age. Additionally, thermal comfort was one of the most frequent motivations for adopting specific heating patterns in our sample. Although residents were generally concerned about the environmental impacts of energy use, they could have been unaware that their current and future heating patterns could cause high levels of energy consumption. This study provides multifaceted insight in occupant research by investigating the link among occupant heating patterns, climate zone, and behavioral motivations, which should be considered by building designers, policymakers, engineers, and energy educators. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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