Linking occupant complaints to building performance

Residential building and occupant vulnerability to tephra fall

Plinian and subplinian volcanic eruptions can be accompanied by tephra falls which may last hours or days, posing threats to people, buildings and economic activity. Numerous historical examples exist of tephra damage and tephra casualties. The mechanisms and consequences of roof collapse from static tephra load are an important area of tephra damage requiring more research. This paper contribu...

Integrated Building Control Based on Occupant Behavior

Standard office building control systems operate the heating, ventilating, and air conditioning on a fixed schedule, based upon anticipated occupancy and use of the building. This study introduces and illustrates a method for integrated building heating, cooling and ventilation control to reduce energy consumption and maintain indoor temperature set points, based on the prediction of occupant b...

Capacity Building to Improve Hospital Managers’ Performance in West Asia

The Impact of the Building Occupant on Energy Modeling Simulations

Uncertainties regarding behavior of building occupants limit the ability of energy models to accurately predict actual building performance. Initial results show that predicted energy consumption changes by more than 150% using all high or all low values for what experts believe reasonably represents occupant behavior. Although numerous sources of modeling inaccuracies and over-simplifications ...

Occupant-Centric Federated Cyber-Physical System for Building Management

Multiple operations inside the building, e.g. HVAC, elevators, fire system and access control, are managed by diverse systems, each providing centralized management and inflexible ways for external interaction. Limited interactions across these systems also limit the occupant experience towards personalized control, ability to selectively share data and control access and build custom applicati...