The energy-saving effects of apartment residents’ awareness and behavior

Kang, Na Na; Cho, Sung Heui; Kim, Jeong Tai

doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.10.039

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“…Literature about eco-feedback design which incorporates the analysis of empirical energy consumption data is widely found [81,[85][86][87][88]. Providing users with eco-feedback information regarding their current and historical energy consumption levels has been demonstrated in several studies [67,72,89] that effectively motivate for energy-efficient behavior.…”

Section: Eco-feedbackmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Building Occupant Behavior on Energy Efficiency and Methods to Influence It: A Review of the State of the Art

2018

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Buildings consume a significant amount of energy, estimated at about one-third of total primary energy resources. Building energy efficiency has turned out to be a major issue in limiting the increasing energy demands of the sector. Literature shows that building user behavior can increase the efficiency of the energy used in the building and different strategies have been tested to address and support this issue. These strategies often combine the quantification of energy savings and qualitative interpretation of occupant behavior in order to foster energy efficiency. Strategies that influence building occupant behaviors include eco-feedback, social interaction, and gamification. This review paper presents a study conducted on the state of the art related to the impact of building user behavior on energy efficiency, in order to provide the research community with a better understanding and up-to-date knowledge of energy, comfort-related practices, and potential research opportunities. Achieving and maintaining energy-efficient behavior without decreasing the comfort of building occupants still represents a challenge, despite emerging technologies and strategies as well as general research progress made over the last decade. Conclusions highlight eco-feedback as an effective way to influence behavior, and gamification as a new opportunity to trigger behavioral change. The impact of user behavior is difficult to quantify for methodological reasons. Factors influencing human behavior are numerous and varied. Multi-disciplinary approaches are needed to provide new insights into the inner dynamic nature of occupant's energy behavior.

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Section: Eco-feedbackmentioning

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The Impact of Building Occupant Behavior on Energy Efficiency and Methods to Influence It: A Review of the State of the Art

2018

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“…The pre-and post-awareness questionnaire were adapted from Kang et al (2012). Each questionnaire consisted of fifty items on a 3-point Likert scale in which ''3'' represents ''know very well,'' ''2'' represents ''know some of them,'' and ''1'' represents ''don't know at all.''…”

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Gender differences in students’ learning achievements and awareness through residence energy saving game-based inquiry playing

2015

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Energy consumption and conservation is one of the important topics in Energy Education, whereby students are required to understand the factors of energy consumption leading to promote students' awareness on saving energy in residence. Moreover, inquiry-based learning strategy can be used to encourage students' learning in the topic. Although, several researchers studied on how to use digital games to improve understand the topic. However, a few studies have been conducted to investigate what the gender differences in playing and learning energy game-based learning are. In this vein, this paper address this issue by investigating the gender differences in learning achievement and energy-saving awareness through a digital game based on inquiry-based learning called Residence Energy Saving Battle (RES-battle). An experiment has been conducted on a secondary school physics course. The experimental results from 129 students indicate that the RES-battle can decrease the difference between female and male learning achievements reasonably and energy-saving awareness. This suggests a need to develop the game that can provide the opportunities for interaction on game screen and also with other students.

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“…Of particular importance here are the studies regarding the effects of energy savings from attitudes and beliefs related to environment and climate (Gadenne et al 2011;Martinsson, Lundqvist, and Sundström 2011) Furthermore, a number of studies address the influence of social norms, socio-demographics, various incentives and barriers, energy-saving awareness and attitudes, regulations and policies, informational and promotional activities, and social integration on the propensity to save energy (Olson 1981;Black, Sterm, and Elworth 1985;Winett et al 1985;Stern 1992;Dias, Mattos, and Balestieri 2004;DeWaters and Powers 2008;Steg 2008;Kang, Cho, and Kim 2012). According to psychological and behavioural studies of consumption and environmental awareness (Vringer, Aalbers, and Blok 2007), inability, unwillingness, and social obstacles are regarded as the primary barriers to changing household behaviour patterns.…”

Section: Household Energy-saving Behaviour Around the Worldmentioning

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Managing the future megacity: an appraisal of knowledge about energy challenges and energy-saving attitudes among households in Dhaka

Mamun

Hoque

Hossain

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International Journal of Sustainable Energy

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Energy saving is now an important household priority in Dhaka. Energy crisis especially electricity crisis is one of the most important sufferings of the residents in Dhaka. As tackling such immense problem requires initiatives from both government and household ends, this study focuses on appraising the energy saving attitudes of the households in Dhaka to help government in designing and implementing appropriate policy options. Using a sample of 400 households, surveyed in a cross-section of locations in Dhaka, the study reveals that there is an encouraging level of homogeneous knowledge about energy challenges and various dimensions of energy-saving attitudes. Furthermore, the price of the energy-saving appliances is considered as one of the most important impediments in achieving a more comprehensive energy-saving response among the household is quite well match with the socioeconomic characteristics of the majority of the residents in Dhaka.

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The energy-saving effects of apartment residents’ awareness and behavior

Cited by 88 publications

References 15 publications

The Impact of Building Occupant Behavior on Energy Efficiency and Methods to Influence It: A Review of the State of the Art

The Impact of Building Occupant Behavior on Energy Efficiency and Methods to Influence It: A Review of the State of the Art

Gender differences in students’ learning achievements and awareness through residence energy saving game-based inquiry playing

Managing the future megacity: an appraisal of knowledge about energy challenges and energy-saving attitudes among households in Dhaka

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