Today, 44% of global energy has been derived from fossil fuel, which currently poses a
threat to inhabitants and well-being of the environment. In a recent investigation of the global …

The purpose of this paper is to review the existing literature to draw an understanding of the
relationship between indoor environmental quality and occupant productivity in an office …

A personal comfort model is a new approach to thermal comfort modeling that predicts an
individual's thermal comfort response, instead of the average response of a large …

The main goal of this article is to review the state-of-the-art literature and establish a
connection between the factors that influence health and productivity in any given indoor …

The aim of this paper is to review the literature on human thermal comfort in the built
environment. First an overview about the subject area is presented. This is followed by a …

Occupant behavior is one of the major factors influencing building energy consumption and
contributing to uncertainty in building energy use prediction and simulation. Currently the …

Thermal environment is one of the main factors that influence occupants' comfort and their
productivity in office buildings. There is ample research that outlines this relationship …

Reducing energy consumption in the buildings sector requires significant changes, but
technology alone may fail to guarantee efficient energy performance. Human behavior plays …

This paper develops and validates an agent-based model (ABM) of occupant behavior using
data from a one-year field study in a medium-sized, air-conditioned office building. The full …

Building condition assessment requires the integration of various types of data such as
building characteristics, the properties of elements/systems and maintenance records …