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 …

Occupant behaviour has a large impact on the energy consumption of buildings, and
therefore a better understanding can assist in many building-related applications, such as …

Buildings worldwide account for a surprisingly high 40% of global energy consumption and
produce an increasingly large carbon footprint. Future sustainability of the building sector is …

Occupants often perform many types of behavior in buildings to adjust the indoor thermal
environment. In these types, opening/closing the windows, often regarded as window …

The urgent need to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in a bid to meet
increasingly stringent GHG targets has focused the attention of scientists on the built …

The modelling of human behaviour is an important challenge for the building sector, as the
actions of users have significant impacts on both energy consumption and comfort …

New and retrofitted buildings often do not perform as expected. In fact, the real energy
performance of a building depends on deterministic characteristics (eg building's structure …

This paper discusses the advantages of using a coding interface both to describe form and
run performance simulations in the context of architectural design. It outlines the relevance …

Occupants interact with buildings in various ways via their presence (passive effects) and
control actions (active effects). Therefore, understanding the influence of occupants is …

Based on observations conducted in an office building, we apply advanced statistical
analysis methods, leading to the formulation of stochastic models for the prediction of …