Impacts of occupant behaviours on residential heating consumption for detached houses in a temperate climate in the northern part of Europe

Meester, Tatiana de; Marique, Anne-Françoise; Herde, André De; Reiter, Sigrid

doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2012.11.005

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“…ET tends to decrease with increasing age of the household reference person. This confirms previous studies indicating that elderly people tend to heat more (Motuziene and Vilutiene, 2013;de Meester et al, 2013). The statistical model of Bourgeois et al (2017) predicts whether one household will be of high or low ET (two classes).…”

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Parametrisation of the variety of human behaviour related to building energy consumption in the Town Energy Balance (SURFEX-TEB v. 8.2)

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Abstract. The anthropogenic heat flux can be an important part of the urban surface energy balance. Some of it is due to energy consumption inside buildings, which depends on building use and human behaviour, both of which are very heterogeneous in most urban areas. Urban canopy parametrisations (UCP), such as the Town Energy Balance (TEB), parametrise the effect of the buildings on the urban surface energy balance. They contain a simple building energy model. However, the variety of building use and human behaviour at grid point scale has not yet been represented in state of the art UCPs. In this study, we describe how we enhance the Town Energy Balance in order to take fractional building use and human behaviour into account. We describe how we parametrise different behaviours and initialise the model for applications in France. We evaluate the spatio-temporal variability of the simulated building energy consumption for the city of Toulouse. We show that a more detailed description of building use and human behaviour enhances the simulation results. The model developments lay the groundwork for simulations of coupled urban climate and building energy consumption which are relevant for both the urban climate and the climate change mitigation and adaptation communities.

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Section: Building Usesupporting

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Parametrisation of the variety of human behaviour related to building energy consumption in the Town Energy Balance (SURFEX-TEB v. 8.2)

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“…Moreover, the results show that the zero-energy neighbourhood objective also needs to minimise the energy needs for appliances, cooking and hot water. It is important to emphasise the influence of less energy-consuming devices as well as adapted user behaviours and lifestyles, parameters that have already been studied in detail in other references (e.g., [65][66][67]). Energy consumption for daily mobility is also higher (approximately 30%) in the suburban neighbourhood, which is highly dependent on private cars and for which travel for work and school is across large distances.…”

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A simplified framework to assess the feasibility of zero-energy at the neighbourhood/community scale

Marique

Reiter

2014

Energy and Buildings

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a b s t r a c t Zero-energy buildings (ZEBs) are attracting increasing interest internationally in policies aiming at a more sustainably built environment, the scientific literature and practical applications. Although "zero energy" can be considered at different scales (e.g., community, city), the most common approach adopts only the perspective of the individual building. Moreover, the feasibility of this objective is not really addressed, especially as far as the retrofitting of the existing building stock is concerned. Therefore, this paper aims first to investigate the opportunity to extend the "zero-energy building" concept to the neighbourhood scale by taking into account two main challenges: (1) the impact of urban form on energy needs and the on-site production of renewable energy and (2) the impact of location on transportation energy consumption. It proposes a simplified framework and a calculation method that is then applied to two representative case studies (one urban neighbourhood and one rural neighbourhood) to investigate the feasibility of zero-energy in existing neighbourhoods. The main parameters that act upon the energy balance are identified. The potential of "energy mutualisation" at the neighbourhood scale is highlighted. This paper thereby shows the potentialities of an integrated approach linking transportation and building energy consumptions.

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“…Occupant behaviour in buildings, e.g. heating behaviour, window opening behaviour, has been suggested to be one of the main aspects causing this gap (de Wilde 2014), due to its great impact on the building performance, which has been demonstrated in a number of existing studies using data from either real buildings (Mulville, Jones, and Huebner 2013;Yu et al 2011;Gram-Hassen 2010;Gill et al 2010;Brown, Dowlatabadi, et al 2009;Bağcı 2009;Guerra Santin, Itard, and Visscher 2009;Steemers and Yun 2009;Hass, Auer, and Biermayr 1998) or building simulation (Bonte, Thellier, and Lartigue 2014;Lee and Malkawi 2014;Mavrogianni et al 2014;Roetzel 2014;Silva and Ghisi 2014;de Meester et al 2013;Fabi, Andersen, and Corgnati 2013). These studies, however, focused on the building design stage and operation stage, while the impact of occupant behaviour in the building refurbishment stage still requires further exploration, especially its impact on the predicted energy saving potential of refurbishment measures by dynamic building performance simulation.…”

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Impact of occupant behaviour on the energy-saving potential of retrofit measures for a public building in the UK

Wei

Hassan

Firth

et al. 2016

Intelligent Buildings International

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In building refurbishment projects, dynamic building simulation is popularly used to predict the energy saving potential of various refurbishment scenarios.However, in this process, it is not clear whether occupant behaviour should be carefully modelled due to the lack of evidence about its impact on the prediction results. To answer this question, this study selected an UK public building and used dynamic building simulation to predict the energy saving potential of common refurbishment measures, under various occupant behavioural conditions. The results revealed that for the case study building occupants' heating behaviour has a significant impact on the predicted energy saving potential of all evaluated refurbishment measures: when changing from passive heating users to active heating users, the energy saving potential was nearly doubled. Although occupants' window opening behaviour was not shown to be as important as heating behaviour for the refurbishment of the case study building, it has a specific influence on the refurbishment measure of increasing window layers: when windows are opened longer, the effectiveness of increasing window layers on promoting the building energy efficiency is decreased. According to the findings from this study, occupant behaviour should be considered as an important aspect in building refurbishment projects.

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Impacts of occupant behaviours on residential heating consumption for detached houses in a temperate climate in the northern part of Europe

Cited by 103 publications

References 23 publications

Parametrisation of the variety of human behaviour related to building energy consumption in the Town Energy Balance (SURFEX-TEB v. 8.2)

Parametrisation of the variety of human behaviour related to building energy consumption in the Town Energy Balance (SURFEX-TEB v. 8.2)

A simplified framework to assess the feasibility of zero-energy at the neighbourhood/community scale

Impact of occupant behaviour on the energy-saving potential of retrofit measures for a public building in the UK

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