Influence of heat cost allocation on occupants' control of indoor environment in 56 apartments: Studied with measurements, interviews and questionnaires

Andersen, Søren; Andersen, Rune Korsholm; Olesen, Bjarne W.

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2016.02.024

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“…Occupants have a significant influence on their indoor environment and its energy use through their presence and interactions with the building envelope and control system 1–5 . Factors driving occupants-building interactions are linked to either the intention to adjust indoor environmental parameters (e.g.…”

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The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales

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Thermal discomfort is one of the main triggers for occupants’ interactions with components of the built environment such as adjustments of thermostats and/or opening windows and strongly related to the energy use in buildings. Understanding causes for thermal (dis-)comfort is crucial for design and operation of any type of building. The assessment of human thermal perception through rating scales, for example in post-occupancy studies, has been applied for several decades; however, long-existing assumptions related to these rating scales had been questioned by several researchers. The aim of this study was to gain deeper knowledge on contextual influences on the interpretation of thermal perception scales and their verbal anchors by survey participants. A questionnaire was designed and consequently applied in 21 language versions. These surveys were conducted in 57 cities in 30 countries resulting in a dataset containing responses from 8225 participants. The database offers potential for further analysis in the areas of building design and operation, psycho-physical relationships between human perception and the built environment, and linguistic analyses.

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The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales

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“…In qualitative data analyses, coding can be done manually or by computer [59,67]. This study adopted manual color coding proposed by Creswell [71].…”

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“…Also, there are similar studies in built environment research on energy studies where interviews were used to supplement survey or case studies. In addition, semi-structured interviews were used by Andersen et al [67] to supplement an experimental study. The interviews were conducted with 10 occupants.…”

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Barriers to Adoption of Sustainable Technologies for Energy-Efficient Building Upgrade—Semi-Structured Interviews

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Abstract:Globally, only 2% of existing building stock is built yearly; the remaining 98% already exist. Energy consumption and indoor thermal comfort of the existing building stock are not encouraging. This is due to many challenges associated with existing buildings; the challenges range from cracks, leakages, poor insulation, heat losses and high rate of unsustainable technologies. This paper investigates possible barriers facing the adoption and application of sustainable technologies (STs) for sustainable or energy-efficient upgrade of existing buildings. New STs are manufactured on a regular basis to meet improved energy efficiency standards, yet there are minimal actions/attempts to adopt and apply improved technologies in existing buildings for energy efficiency. Indeed, there are limited studies focused on the use of qualitative approaches to identify barriers to adoption and use of STs. Thus, a semi-structured interview approach was adopted and applied using sustainability/energy efficiency professionals, building services engineers, project managers, architects, and facility managers in Australia. The results indicate that barriers to the adoption and application of sustainable technologies are perceived benefits in demolish-and-build, age of building, cost of STs, perceived poor payback time, unreliable energy-savings projections, existing design, hidden and overall cost of renovation, and cost of STs.

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“…However, it is widely recognized that there exists a gap between the predicted energy consumption of a building and its actual consumption once in use, and that occupant behavior bears a large responsibility in this gap [3,4]. Preferences in terms of indoor conditions are indeed extremely variable from person to person and from dwelling to dwelling [5,6]. Moreover, new building system types, seldom present in older houses and apartments, are unknown to many occupants.…”

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Data-driven study on individual occupant comfort using heating setpoints and window openings in new low-energy apartments – preliminary insights

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This work suggests a method to evaluate residential building occupants’ neutral temperature in winter based on their interaction with their heating system. This study applies the developed method on eight new, low-energy apartments in Copenhagen, Denmark. A set of indoor temperature, heating setpoint, window opening and floor heating valve opening data was collected from mid-January to the end of April, spanning through a large part of the Danish heating season. Semi-structured interviews were performed with occupants of three of the eight apartments in order to understand their use of their heating system. This preliminary study permits to highlight the potential and the current limitations of the proposed method, both for neutral temperature estimation as such and for applications in optimizing the energy flexibility provided by the building. This article suggests directions for further elaboration of the model. The main two influential factors highlighted here affecting setpoint adjustment are the occupants’ acceptability of temperature variation and their ability to control the heating system.

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Influence of heat cost allocation on occupants' control of indoor environment in 56 apartments: Studied with measurements, interviews and questionnaires

Cited by 26 publications

References 23 publications

The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales

The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales

Barriers to Adoption of Sustainable Technologies for Energy-Efficient Building Upgrade—Semi-Structured Interviews

Data-driven study on individual occupant comfort using heating setpoints and window openings in new low-energy apartments – preliminary insights

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