Household archetypes and behavioural patterns in UK domestic energy use

Ben, Hui; Steemers, Koen

doi:10.1007/s12053-017-9609-1

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“…An individual's perceived role within the research study and household may influence their responses to survey and interview questions (Bowen et al, 2019). Yet participants would likely be able to ascribe household behavioral patterns related to themselves and others within their household as active spenders, conscious occupiers, average users, conservers, and inactive users (Ben & Steemers, 2018). Pairing those data with demographic information about household compositions would provide a richer landscape for understanding household consumption.…”

Section: Discussion: Incorporating Household Dynamics Into Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

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In this commentary, we present an analysis of how COVID-19 has impacted food systems in the Pacific Islands. The Pacific Islands region is home to over 10 million people across 22 countries, with hugely diverse agricultural and fisheries systems. The analysis is based on a systems framework developed by Allen and Prosperi (2016), which covers various aspects of human ecology food systems. We synthesized material from 21 interviews, news websites, emerging literature, and parallel published assessments of COVID-19 impacts in the region. We present examples of impacts across different elements of food systems throughout the region. We then apply a systems-based analysis to illustrate how the impacts of COVID-19 on Pacific food systems create an opportunity to find innovative ways of transforming localized and regional food, and create an opportunity to building resilience to future shocks.

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Section: Discussion: Incorporating Household Dynamics Into Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2021

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“…Occupant behaviour can account for between 7.5% and 9.1% of variance in the predicted energy savings of retrofit (Majcen, Itard, & Visscher 2013). Evidence indicates that occupants must be included in the retrofit process, taking into account their different motivations and actions (Ben & Steemers 2018), and understanding the retrofit actions being undertaken, if the anticipated carbon savings are to be realised.…”

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Decarbonising the Welsh housing stock: from practice to policy

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Lannon

Patterson

et al. 2020

Buildings and Cities

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This paper examines whether and how the challenging target of 95% decarbonisation can be achieved for the Welsh building stock. First, a critical review of the literature and relevant case studies are presented to understand the effectiveness of different retrofit approaches in practice, and the degree to which these approaches are evidence based, and applicable to the Welsh context. These findings are synthesised into a collection of 14 recurrent dwelling 'archetypes', with appropriate retrofit strategies developed for each. The impacts of these strategies are modelled in terms of capital cost, primary energy use, fuel bills and carbon emissions. Conclusions provide an evidence base for future policy and a decarbonisation strategy. Retrofit strategies should include fabric firstmeasures to minimise increases in household fuel bills and a consequent increase in fuel poverty. Retrofit options for a significant percentage of housing are constrained by character, which would limit changes to the external fabric. Given that decarbonisation of the future energy supply is currently uncertain, all other housing should be retrofitted to perform beyond SAP90. A flexible approach that pushes all housing to achieve stringent standards by 2050 is the only way to achieve targeted reductions in carbon emissions under the assumed energy supply scenarios. Policy relevance The Welsh housing stock, among the oldest and least efficient in Europe, is responsible for 21% of Welsh carbon emissions. In 2019, the UK Committee for Climate Change (CCC) determined that Wales should target a 95% reduction in emissions by 2050. This paper assesses whether this challenging target can be achieved, and potential strategies for doing so. Key recommendations are drawn from the research, which encompass technical, social and organisational issues, and the importance of a holistic approach to decarbonisation is identified. These findings informed the Independent Steering Group recent report Better Homes, Better Wales, Better World (2019), and the report's recommendations were adopted by the Welsh Government on 24 September 2019. This work should continue to provide an evidence base upon which future policy can be developed through the development of retrofit strategies for recurring dwelling archetypes and a decarbonisation strategy for Wales that is likely to include legislation, regulation, incentives and penalties.

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“…The findings from the study show that the values-based framework did not predict habitual behaviors very well. Several occupant archetypes were developed to understand behavior to reduce electricity consumption and maintain comfort [42], [65]. Personality traits and subjective values also determine occupant capacity to share controls [5], [36].…”

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An ontology to represent synthetic building occupant characteristics and behavior

Putra

Hong

Andrews

2021

Automation in Construction

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Since the introduction of the occupant behavior Drivers-Needs-Actions-Systems (DNAS) framework in 2013, researchers have used the framework or further developed it based on their case studies, which include efforts to collect new data on occupant behaviors. The effort is often costly for the relatively few new data points added. Problems emerge when the already collected data do not meet the modelers' interoperability requirements. Previous studies addressed this issue by developing more sophisticated ontologies that enable integration with other datasets and synthetic data methodologies that would meet unique research applications. This paper presents an extension of the DNAS framework for the representation of synthetic occupant data to support various applications and use cases across the building life cycle. An agent-based modeling application is one of our motivations that requires more elaborate characteristics of an occupantagent or a group-of-agent. The extension, built upon a review of the literature, introduces new elements to the framework that fall into five categories, including socio-economic, geographical location, activities, subjective values, and individual and collective adaptive actions. On-going research includes identifying occupant datasets and developing data fusion methods to generate synthetic occupants, as well as to demonstrate its applications in agent-based modeling coupled with building performance simulation.

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Household archetypes and behavioural patterns in UK domestic energy use

Cited by 51 publications

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An ontology to represent synthetic building occupant characteristics and behavior

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