How subjective and non-physical parameters affect occupants’ environmental comfort perception

Castaldo, Veronica Lucia; Pigliautile, Ilaria; Rosso, Federica; Cotana, Franco; Giorgio, Francesco De; Pisello, Anna Laura

doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2018.08.020

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“…Finally, occupants' perceived impact of IEQ on productivity affects the intention to share ECFs, and therefore has the potential to mediate energy consumption. This finding suggests a new direction for building policymakers to consider and adjust employees' work expectations along with the design criteria of IEQ [63].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 92%

Culture, conformity, and carbon? A multi-country analysis of heating and cooling practices in office buildings

Chen

Hong

Rubens

et al. 2020

Energy Research & Social Science

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This study investigates human-building interaction in office spaces across multiple countries including Brazil, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, the United States, and Taiwan. We analyze social-psychological, contextual, and demographic factors to explain crosscountry differences in adaptive thermal actions (i.e. cooling and heating behaviors) and conformity to the norms of sharing indoor environmental control features, an indicator of energy consumption. Specifically, personal adjustments such as putting on extra clothes are generally preferred over technological solutions such as adjusting thermostats in reaction to thermal discomfort. Social-psychological factors including attitudes, perceived behavioral control, injunctive norms, and perceived impact of indoor environmental quality on work productivity influence occupants' intention to conform to the norms of sharing environmental control features. Lastly, accessibility to environmental control features, office type, gender, and age are also important factors. These findings demonstrate the roles of social-psychological and certain contextual factors in occupants' interactions with building design as well as their behavior of sharing environmental control features, both of which 2 significantly influence building energy consumption, and thus, broader decarbonization.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 92%

Culture, conformity, and carbon? A multi-country analysis of heating and cooling practices in office buildings

Chen

Hong

Rubens

et al. 2020

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…As demonstrated by recent research [73], comfort sensations are shaped not only by objective environmental factors, such as measured values in line with standards and regulations, but also by subjective factors related to individuals perceptions, which in turn are also influenced by the surrounding environment. Visitors' feedback on their thermal and visual comfort can be collected through traditional surveys and through advanced digital technologies, such as portable electroencephalography helmets, that allow gauging the visitors' feelings, in order to pair them with microclimate measurements.…”

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Visitor-Sensing: Involving the Crowd in Cultural Heritage Organizations

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Rosso²,

Capaldo³

2020

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As organizations are increasingly involving individuals across their boundaries in the generation of new knowledge, crowd involvement can also be beneficial to cultural heritage organizations. We argue that in an “Open Innovation in Science” approach, visitors can contribute to generate new scientific knowledge concerning their behavior and preferences, by which museum managers can re-design the cultural offerings of their institutions in ways that generate major economic and social impacts. Accordingly, we advance visitor-sensing as a novel framework in which museum managers leverage digital technologies to collect visitors’ ideas, preferences, and feedback in order to improve path design and the organization of artwork in exhibitions, and to shape a more satisfying museum experience for visitors. We contend that visitor-sensing has the potential to yield higher numbers of visitors, with positive impacts in terms of increased revenues and increased literacy of the general public, thus benefiting the economic and social sustainability of cultural organizations towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals outlined in the Agenda 2030.

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“…As regards the building envelope, passive systems (not energy depending) can be used, which allow to actually obtain a reduction of the energy consumption (and at the same time, to also save on the use and the size of the HVAC system). Clearly, the occupants' behaviours and attitudes might also significantly influence energy saving, as demonstrated, for instance, in [21][22][23][24]. Starting from the above considerations, in this work, it was decided to pay attention to the use of a passive system to be applied to the building envelope, that is, green roofs equipped with different vegetation types.…”

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Green Roofs as Effective Tools for Improving the Indoor Comfort Levels of Buildings—An Application to a Case Study in Sicily

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In the line of pursuing better energy efficiency in human activities that would result in a more sustainable utilization of resources, the building sector plays a relevant role, being responsible for almost 40% of both energy consumption and the release of pollutant substances in the atmosphere. For this purpose, techniques aimed at improving the energy performances of buildings’ envelopes are of paramount importance. Among them, green roofs are becoming increasingly popular due to their capability of reducing the (electric) energy needs for (summer) climatization of buildings, hence also positively affecting the indoor comfort levels for the occupants. Clearly, reliable tools for the modelling of these envelope components are needed, requiring the availability of suitable field data. Starting with the results of a case study designed to estimate how the adoption of green roofs on a Sicilian building could positively affect its energy performance, this paper shows the impact of this technology on indoor comfort and energy consumption, as well as on the reduction of direct and indirect CO2 emissions related to the climatization of the building. Specifically, the ceiling surface temperatures of some rooms located underneath six different types of green roofs were monitored. Subsequently, the obtained data were used as input for one of the most widely used simulation models, i.e., EnergyPlus, to evaluate the indoor comfort levels and the achievable energy demand savings of the building involved. From these field analyses, green roofs were shown to contribute to the mitigation of the indoor air temperatures, thus producing an improvement of the comfort conditions, especially in summer conditions, despite some worsening during transition periods seeming to arise.

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How subjective and non-physical parameters affect occupants’ environmental comfort perception

Cited by 63 publications

References 32 publications

Culture, conformity, and carbon? A multi-country analysis of heating and cooling practices in office buildings

Culture, conformity, and carbon? A multi-country analysis of heating and cooling practices in office buildings

Visitor-Sensing: Involving the Crowd in Cultural Heritage Organizations

Green Roofs as Effective Tools for Improving the Indoor Comfort Levels of Buildings—An Application to a Case Study in Sicily

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