Understanding the opportunities and challenges of building automation and control systems to support facility management–an extensive literature review

S van Roosmale, A Audenaert, J Meysman - Facilities, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to highlight the expanding link between facility management (FM)
and building automation and control systems (BACS) through a review of literature. It …

[HTML][HTML] Modelling of underlying social psychological effects on occupant energy-related behaviours

AS Weerasinghe, JOB Rotimi, EO Rasheed - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Occupant energy-related behaviour research practices based on objective factors may not
provide helpful insights that can derive from social sciences perspectives. This study …

[HTML][HTML] Conceptualizing Sustainable Occupant Behaviour in Offices from an interdisciplinary point of view: A Systematic review

H Li, R Appel-Meulenbroek, T Arentze… - Energy and Built …, 2024 - Elsevier
Occupant Behaviour (OB) has been identified as one of the most influential factors that
impact workplace space usage. In addition, it proven to be one of the key reasons for …

[HTML][HTML] The implications of energy literacy on energy savings behavior: A model of contingent effects of energy value and attitude

MK Appiah, EK Gyening, PK Teye, C Frimpong… - Energy Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Sustainable energy production and consumption is essential to the realization of the United
Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Climate Agreement …

Occupants' Decision-Making of Their Energy Behaviours in Office Environments: A Case of New Zealand

AS Weerasinghe, EO Rasheed, JOB Rotimi - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Understanding how occupants behave and interact with building systems is vital to energy
efficiency in buildings. The building occupants' behaviours are complex and influenced by …

An occupant-centric approach on digital twins for building management

P Gordo-Gregorio, H Alavi, DJ Edwards… - Building Research & …, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
Digitalization trends in building management increasingly emphasize the creation of Digital
Twins (DTs) for building management but often neglect how occupants interact with these …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a user-focused office building-system functionality for post-earthquake functional recovery

SAM Nkrumah, O Filippova, D Levy, F Ying - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Globally, building codes tend to focus on life safety without consideration for the continuous
use of buildings after a disaster. Post-earthquake functional recovery is an emerging …

Sustainable facilities management: a sociotechnical system perspective and a review of the literature

K Karanasios - Journal of Facilities Management, 2025 - emerald.com
Purpose Sustainable facilities management (SFM) research necessitates a sociotechnical
system perspective as core organizations and facilities management (FM) suppliers are …

Smart faces: using communication strategies to optimize technical information flow in middle-out facilities management

L Tian, G Stuart, L Ozawa-Meida - Building Research & Information, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
With rapid technological evolution, Energy Management Information Systems (EMIS) have
improved energy and water consumption visibility and provided the ability to rapidly detect …

The impacts of occupant behaviours on energy consumption in New Zealand office buildings: a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree …

A Weerasinghe - 2023 - mro.massey.ac.nz
The building and construction sector consumes 36% of the global energy and produces
39% of energy-related CO2 emissions. Building energy consumption is influenced by …