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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Occupant behaviour"”.
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Incorporating Occupant Behaviour and Comfort in Domestic Energy Retrofit
… the Climate Change Act 2008, the complexity of occupant behaviour and comfort needs often prevents the seemingly achievable retrofit targets from being reached. These real-life complexities contrast starkly with the standardised and simplistic behavioural profiles currently used in energy …
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Reducing Energy Consumption in Residential Buildings: The Impacts of Occupant Behaviour and Engaging Control Systems
… energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Occupant engagement poses one of the best solutions to reducing building energy consumption, with studies showing annual energy consumption can vary by up to 150% between active and passive occupants. In this thesis, an occupant-in-the-loop smart …
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Beyond regulated energy: delivering long-term building performance
… obsolescence. The work examines the role of occupant behaviour and demonstrates that behaviour change campaigns as ‘operational enablers’ have the potential to reduce energy use and may have the potential to improve occupant satisfaction and wellbeing. The work also demonstrates that climate …
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Energy use in buildings and design requirements. The energy costs and financial costs of building materials, structures and space heating, the detailed patterns of use of heating systems in dwellings, and their interactions: their implications for design.
… was designed to determine certain aspects of occupant behaviour relevant to fuel consumption. Using regression techniques, relationships are obtained which explain more than two thirds of the variance of mean useful energy input rate between the houses of a given type in cold weather in terms …
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Influence of occupant's behaviour on indoor environmental quality and energy consumptions
… are dynamic, and the interactions of operators, occupants, and designers all influence the way in which buildings will perform. At the core of this research is the belief that technical solutions alone are not sufficient to face great challenges of saving energy while still maintaining or even …
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Nonintrusive load disaggregation computer program to estimate the energy consumption of major end-uses in residential buildings
… purchases, aging appliances, and changes in occupant behaviour, (ii) increase the home owner's awareness of actual energy performance, and (iii) provide helpful recommendations to the home owner for improving the energy performance of the house. The program estimates the contribution of …
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Householder behaviour and domestic energy use
… of research which points to the importance of behaviour in energy consumption is presented. The literature on ways of controlling energy consumption by behavioural means is reviewed. Understanding the consumer is highlighted as being important in explaining variation in energy utilization.This …
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Towards a comprehensive understanding of human behaviour in dwelling fires
This thesis looks at human behaviour in accidental dwelling fires (ADFs), specifically the behaviours and motivations of those who survive fires in low-rise dwellings. Human behaviour in fire is a well-established subject area, but the primary research focus has been on behaviour in public, …
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Domestic gas consumption, household behaviour patterns, and window opening
… their controls, there have been few studies of occupant behaviour. The thesis therefore studies household behaviour patterns relating to domestic gas consumption. There are two main aims: firstly, to study a variety of these patterns and, secondly, to make a detailed investigation of one …
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The interaction between occupants and fire alarm systems in complex buildings
… this research indicates that a delay in warning occupants in a building, to the threat of a fire, is a constant feature in fire disasters. Further the provision of early warning and an appropriate response are considered with reference to the reduction of the number of fatalities in fires. The …
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The Take Up and Use of Green Technologies in Low Carbon Communities: A Case Study of North West Cambridge
… and use in the building sector and appropriate behaviours of occupants so that technologies are used effectively and energy and carbon reduction is achieved. This research aims to establish how occupant behaviour can be influenced by design and programmatic features of the community and the …
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The introduction of adaptive social decision-making in the mathematical modelling of egress behaviour
… represents an attempt at increasing the behavioural sophistication of evacuation simulations, through the study of evacuation modelling, the development of new behavioural algorithms, their implementation within an existing evacuation model and the testing of the resulting model. This aim …
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Characterisation of occupancy in building performance simulation for non-residential buildings
… understanding energy consumption in buildings. Occupant behaviour in general, and occupancy in particular, has been identified as an important factor contributing to the gap between building performance simulation results and actual energy consumption. Oversimplified assumptions regarding …
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A data-centric stochastic model for simulation of occupant-related energy demand in buildings
… No matter how efficient a building it is the occupants that drive the energy consumption - whether by requiring comfortable conditions or by using electrical equipment. While in the residential sector owner-occupiers have particular responsibility for consumption, in the non-domestic sector …