Three main categories of occupant behaviors were summarized for building through this
literature review, including the occupancy, interactions and behavioral efficiency. The results …

Over the past 15 years, the evaluation of energy demand and use in buildings has become
increasingly acute due to growing scientific and political pressure around the world in …

The “human dimensions” of energy use in buildings refer to the energy-related behaviors of
key stakeholders that affect energy use over the building life cycle. Stakeholders include …

Buildings are responsible for about 30–40% of global energy demand. At the same time, we
humans spend almost our entire life, up to 80–90% of the time, inside of buildings. Reducing …

Three main groups of internal and external influencing factors have been identified through
this review, including building characteristics, equipment and technologies, and occupant's …

Buildings consume more than one-third of the world's primary energy. Reducing energy use
and greenhouse-gas emissions in the buildings sector through energy conservation and …

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 …

The present paper illustrates the results of a literature review on occupants' behaviours,
assessing the actions' drivers. There is no general agreement about the reasons people …

The current and future challenges of sustainable development require a massive
transformation of habits and behaviors in the whole society at many levels. This demands a …

This study introduces an interdisciplinary framework for investigating building-user
interaction in office spaces. The framework is a synthesis of theories from building physics …