Occupant behaviour in mixed-mode office buildings in a subtropical climate: Beyond typical models of adaptive actions

Rupp, Ricardo Forgiarini; Andersen, Rune Korsholm; Toftum, Jørn; Ghisi, Enedir

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.107541

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“…Especially, multi-disciplinary and international relationships are recommended to provide new insights into occupant adaptive behaviours (D’Oca et al , 2018). Research needs to be extended to different climate zones or countries to find the variations of behaviours in different contexts, cultures, climates and socio-economic backgrounds (D’Oca et al , 2019; Rupp et al , 2021). Additionally, Day and O’Brien (2017) stressed the importance of including knowledge from multi-disciplinary fields to identify adaptive behaviours and their motivational factors.…”

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A facilities management approach to rationalising occupants’ energy behaviours

Weerasinghe

Rasheed

Rotimi

2022

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Purpose This paper aims to investigate building managers’ approach towards occupant energy behaviours and rationalises organisational energy culture concerning their strategy to address occupants’ preferences in New Zealand tertiary office buildings. Design/methodology/approach The research used grounded theory analysis by interviewing a purposive sample of 25 participants from a university. Also, semi-structured interviews were conducted with facilities managers, sustainability managers and building occupants. Findings The study results revealed that building managers oversimplify the multi-domain discomfort, energy impacts from occupant behaviours and the influence of social-psychology aspects on occupants’ actions. The organisational energy culture can be further improved by increasing occupants’ knowledge and awareness of energy, sharing energy feedback with occupants to make energy conscious occupants and giving them responsibilities to achieve the organisation’s energy targets. Originality/value This study enables opportunities to promote collaboration between building managers and occupants by comparing perspectives on occupant energy impacts.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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A facilities management approach to rationalising occupants’ energy behaviours

Weerasinghe

Rasheed

Rotimi

2022

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“…Often, they are used to model the inner sample variations in clinical studies [12]. In buildings science, a similar example is found in the work by Rupp et al [13], where they used random effects to model impact of the occupants on the heating of an office in a sub-tropical city in Brazil. In their work, they identified parameters that determine the level of comfort of the office workers, such as the habit of drinking hot beverages or wearing warm clothing.…”

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“…Fitting model M1 with data from 21 schools allows us to use Equation (11) to estimate the value of the individual values of u k ck 2 [1, …, 21]. As explained in Chapter 5 of Madsen and Thyregod [31], the random effects are estimated by (13) where u ¼ 1/(1 þ ng), with n being the number of observations of the kth building, and g ¼ s 2 u =s 2 1 . It is important to highlight that ûk is an estimated value, whereas U k is a random variable.…”

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A data-driven framework for characterising building archetypes: A mixed effects modelling approach

Real

Møller

et al. 2022

Energy

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“…While technological adaptive actions can impact building energy use, other adaptive actions, such as personal adjustments can impact building performance indirectly [23]. While fewer studies have focused on the actions aimed at occupants' personal adjustments, some research has highlighted that occupants have greater controls over their thermal environment in mixed-mode buildings than in buildings with automated controls [24]. Clothing is an important factor to compensate for individual differences in the preferred indoor temperature, especially in naturally ventilated buildings [25].…”

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Intersecting heuristic adaptive strategies, building design and energy saving intentions when facing discomfort environment: A cross-country analysis

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Simone

Yılmaz

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Building and Environment

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Occupants' adaptive strategies play an important role in office buildings' energy consumption.Previous research has mostly focused on the adaptive strategies triggered by occupants' indoor discomfort; however, it is crucial to understand if specific adaptive strategies are linked to occupants' energy-saving intentions. This study explores the relationships among employees' heuristic decisionmaking in their first choice of adaptive strategies (technological solutions or personal adjustments) when facing extreme discomfort conditions, and their energy-saving intentions, then links these patterns with building design, workplace contextual factors and demographics. A cross-sectional survey was collected among university employees from China, Brazil, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, and the US. Our results demonstrated that the accessibility to indoor environmental controls (IECs) and office type were significant factors for adaptive strategies. There was a positive relationship between the number of IEC features and percentage of employees choosing a technological solution. When feeling too hot, occupants in private offices are more likely to adopt a technological solution, whereas occupants in cubicles are more likely to choose a personal adjustment. Occupants with energy-saving intentions are less likely to choose thermostat adjustments or use portable devices as adaptive strategies than their counterparts. Finally, the cluster analysis suggests females were more likely to use adaptive strategies for energy-saving purposes than males. The majority of occupants would turn on/off lighting to save energy. The study provides contributions in the connection between heuristic decision-making process, and energy-saving intentions and recommendations on design strategies for building architects, engineers, and managers.

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Occupant behaviour in mixed-mode office buildings in a subtropical climate: Beyond typical models of adaptive actions

Cited by 23 publications

References 29 publications

A facilities management approach to rationalising occupants’ energy behaviours

A facilities management approach to rationalising occupants’ energy behaviours

A data-driven framework for characterising building archetypes: A mixed effects modelling approach

Intersecting heuristic adaptive strategies, building design and energy saving intentions when facing discomfort environment: A cross-country analysis

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