Research in building energy consumption often uses semi-structured interviews to produce
qualitative data on consumer beliefs, attitudes, practices and skills. A survey of 54 recent …

Occupant behavior has a significant impact on building systems' operations and efficiency.
As a result, several innovative approaches have been introduced to quantify the dynamics of …

Over the past half century, a discourse emphasizing environmental constraints and limits
has both informed and provided many valuable ways of responding to complex …

This paper provides a review of the improvements in the evaluation of building performance
and introduces a new method for post-occupancy evaluation (POE) to complete the missing …

Domestic heating has a large share in the UK total energy consumption and significant
contribution to the greenhouse gas emissions since it is mainly fulfilled by fossil fuels …

Digital technologies, in particular, Building Information Modelling (BIM), are claimed to
provide an effective and efficient solution for tackling the plethora of problems in the UK …

The importance of post-occupancy evaluation (POE) is widely acknowledged in the
academic literature, industry press and, increasingly, by professional institutes. Learning …

Abstract Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) is a process that aims to assess buildings'
performance after occupation. Assessments are conducted to create a better understanding …

This contribution reviews the options proposed to reduce and/or act on the temporal profile
of energy demand (flexibility), mainly at the residential level. Automated technology-driven …

As buildings throughout their life cycle account for circa 40% of total energy use in Europe,
reducing energy use of the building stock is a key task. This task is, however, complicated by …