Energy-related values and satisfaction levels of residential and office building occupants

Amasyali, Kadir; El-Gohary, Nora

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2015.08.005

Cited by 51 publications

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“…employees) are more concerned on indoor comfort (e.g. lightings and office performance) [20] and not so much concerned on their waste-energy behaviors [1]. Therefore, Hypothesis 1.2 predicts that building owners/managers are responsible for energy bills or occupants paying their own bills more concern about electricity bills, and more willing to participate in the energy flexibility programs if the programs can reduce their electricity bills.…”

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“…Pattern of energy consumption in buildings depends on indoor comfort required by occupants [18,19] and managers" concern of energy savings [20].…”

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“…owners, tenants) keep balance of their comfort and energy consumption pattern [1,20]. A research shows that occupants whose electricity bills are included in their rentals consume more energy than those who pay their own electricity bills [23].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Consumer Central Energy Flexibility in Office Buildings

Billanes¹,

Ma²,

Jôrgensen³

2017

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Energy flexibility in buildings will play an important role in the smart energy system. Office buildings have more potentials to provide energy flexibility to the grid compared to other types of buildings, due to the existing building management, control systems and large energy consumption. Consumers in office buildings (building owners/managers and occupants) take a main role for adopting and engaging in building energy flexibility. This paper provides a systematic review of consumer central energy flexibility in office buildings with the discussion of social, technical and business aspects. This paper clarifies the correlations of consumers" concerns, external influential factors, energy flexibility resources and technology with eight hypotheses. This paper suggests that technical solutions with the integration of distributed energy resources, building management and control system can boost energy flexibility in the office buildings.

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“…Pattern of energy consumption in buildings depends on indoor comfort required by occupants [18,19] and managers" concern of energy savings [20].…”

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Consumer Central Energy Flexibility in Office Buildings

Billanes¹,

Ma²,

Jôrgensen³

2017

JEPE

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“…These observation methods are crucial to determining behavioral patterns that have varying consequences for building energy consumption and indoor environment comfort. The questionnaire presented here can be considered as an optimal instrument for the discovery of a layer of social, contextual, and group interaction constructs related to driving forces and individual motivations [15,19,39,40,64,70,[86][87][88][89][90][91][92]. Directly questioning subjects might overcome the constraints of physical sensing techniques in gathering insights of multiple behavior interactions (i.e., the order of actions typically performed by the occupants to restore or bring about comfort conditions).…”

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Synthesizing building physics with social psychology: An interdisciplinary framework for context and occupant behavior in office buildings

D’Oca

Chen

Hong

et al. 2017

Energy Research & Social Science

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This study introduces an interdisciplinary framework for investigating building-user interaction in office spaces. The framework is a synthesis of theories from building physics and social psychology including social cognitive theory, the theory of planned behavior, and the driversneeds-actions-systems ontology for energy-related behaviors. The goal of the research framework is to investigate the effects of various behavioral adaptations and building controls (i.e., adjusting thermostats, operating windows, blinds and shades, and switching on/off artificial lights) to determine impacts on occupant comfort and energy-related operational costs in the office environment. This study attempts to expand state-of-the-art understanding of: (1) the environmental, personal, and behavioral drivers motivating occupants to interact with building control systems across four seasons, (2) how occupants' intention to share controls is influenced by social-psychological variables such as attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control in group negotiation dynamic, (3) the perceived ease of usage and knowledge of building technologies, and (4) perceived satisfaction and productivity. To ground the validation of the theoretical framework in diverse office settings and contexts at the international scale, an online survey was designed to collect cross-country responses from office occupants among 14 universities and research centers within the United States, Europe, China, and Australia.

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“…Several important occupants' values regarding energy use, indoor thermal comfort, visual comfort etc. have been identified and examined in previous studies [3,4]. Previous studies reported that occupants' factors such as occupancy level, window adjustment behaviors, energy system control have big effect on the energy performance and indoor comfort in buildings [1,2,[5][6][7][8][9].…”

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confidence: 99%