Data sources and approaches for building occupancy profiles at the urban scale–A review

S Nejadshamsi, U Eicker, C Wang, J Bentahar - Building and Environment, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Buildings' occupant profiles at the urban scale play an important role in various applications
like Urban Building Energy Modeling (UBEM) and assessing energy consumption patterns …

UBEM's archetypes improvement via data-driven occupant-related schedules randomly distributed and their impact assessment

M Ferrando, S Ferroni, M Pelle, A Tatti, S Erba… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Abstract In Urban Building Energy Models (UBEMs), buildings are usually modelled via
archetypes describing occupants' behaviour via fixed schedules. This research (i) creates …

Modeling and data infrastructure for human-centric design and operation of sustainable, healthy buildings through a case study

YX Tao, Y Zhu, U Passe - Building and Environment, 2020‏ - Elsevier
This paper focuses on data infrastructure that is central to the modeling of design and
operation of sustainable and healthy buildings. While reducing energy consumption by …

American time use survey in modeling occupant behavior: A systematic review

S Vosoughkhosravi, A Jafari - Computing in Civil Engineering 2023, 2024‏ - ascelibrary.org
Energy-related occupant behavior can significantly impact building energy consumption.
Identifying occupant behavior and individual activity patterns is essential to modeling human …

Islands of misfit buildings: Detecting uncharacteristic electricity use behavior using load shape clustering

M Quintana, P Arjunan, C Miller - Building Simulation, 2021‏ - Springer
Many energy performance analysis methodologies assign buildings a descriptive label that
represents their main activity, often known as the primary space usage (PSU). This attribute …

[HTML][HTML] Improving urban-scale building occupancy and energy use estimation using a transportation-informed building occupancy estimation framework

S Nejadshamsi, U Eicker, J Bentahar, C Wang - Energy and Buildings, 2025‏ - Elsevier
Buildings consume a significant portion of global energy, highlighting the importance of
accurately estimating building energy use for effective urban energy management. Building …

Development of a modeling framework for refined residential occupancy schedules in an urban energy model

D Malekpour Koupaei, F Hashemi… - Building …, 2019‏ - publications.ibpsa.org
Occupancy schedules are a leading source of uncertainty in building energy simulations.
This uncertainty often results in an undesired gap between actual performance and …

[PDF][PDF] Development of a modelling framework for refined residential occupancy schedules

DM Koupaei, F Hashemi, V Tabard-Fortecoëf… - Fifty-Sixth Annu …, 2019‏ - researchgate.net
Occupancy schedules are a leading source of uncertainty in building energy simulations.
This uncertainty often results in an undesired gap between actual performance and …

Lifetime energy performance of residential buildings: a sensitivity analysis of energy modeling parameters

M Koupaei, D Geraudin - Proceedings of the symposium on Simulation …, 2020‏ - par.nsf.gov
Traditional building energy simulation tools often assess performance as a function of the
unique climate, physical characteristics, and operational parameters that define specific …

[PDF][PDF] A Two-State Stochastic Residential Building Occupancy Model Based on The American Time-Use Survey Data

DM Koupaei, U Passe - ASHRAE Topical Conference …, 2020‏ - researchgate.net
Misrepresentative occupancy schedules cause uncertainty in building energy simulations
which often results in an undesired gap between actual performance and predictions. To …