Development of an ontology-based semantic building post-occupancy evaluation framework

Post-occupancy evaluation (POE) is a systematic method to evaluate the actual building performance against theoretical design intents after has been occupied for some time, understand how performing and capture lessons learned. The POE offers an opportunity investigate buildings' based upon occupants' satisfaction levels in aspects of overall design, indoor environmental quality, thermal comfort, etc. However, as key part POE, occupant assessment (OSA) missing link (BPE) domain, there not OSA. Moreover, it time-consuming error-prone conduct OSA manually. This paper presents from end-user's perspective semantic post-occupancy ontology (POEontology) facilitate buildings, with ultimate aim optimizing operation guidelines, improving use experience quality well-being. An ontology-based knowledge model developed fragmented benchmarking rules encoded Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) enable automatic rule-based rating reasoning. also enables effective OSA-related retrieving sharing, promotes its implementation domain. A field study conducted Building Use Study (BUS) methodology validate proposed framework.