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24 Citations
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Occupant Behavior Impact on Building Sustainability Performance: A Literature Review

  • Habtamu Tkubet Ebuy,
  • Hind Bril El Haouzi,
  • Riad Benelmir and
  • Remi Pannequin

30 January 2023

Occupant behavior controls a building’s energy system to adapt the indoor environment, significantly increasing building energy consumption. Occupant behavior, which refers to the occupancy inside a building and their interaction with building...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,629 Views
23 Pages

An Investigation of Occupant Energy-Saving Behavior in Vernacular Houses of Behramkale (Assos)

  • Ebru Ergöz Karahan,
  • Özgür Göçer,
  • Kenan Göçer and
  • Didem Boyacıoğlu

6 December 2021

Despite its well-known potential to reduce energy use, the inquiry of whether vernacular architecture prompts its occupants to have energy-saving behavior has been neglected. This paper aims to investigate the influence of vernacular houses on the be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,692 Views
20 Pages

25 January 2021

The behavior of building occupants has been studied by researchers for building control as well as for predicting energy use. In this study, we analyzed the effect of the application of single and complex behavior models on the simulation results of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
212 Citations
15,667 Views
19 Pages

17 April 2018

Buildings consume a significant amount of energy, estimated at about one-third of total primary energy resources. Building energy efficiency has turned out to be a major issue in limiting the increasing energy demands of the sector. Literature shows...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,912 Views
25 Pages

15 March 2021

Occupant behavior is acknowledged as a main contribution to building energy consumption. Many efforts have been devoted to identifying the impact of occupant behaviors on building energy consumption. However, the lack of understanding of the interact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,046 Views
22 Pages

17 January 2021

Occupant behaviors are one of the most dominant factors that influence building energy use. Understanding the influences from building occupants can promote the development of energy–efficient buildings. This paper quantifies the impact of different...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,096 Views
33 Pages

This study investigates how window design features, such as size, placement, and orientation, might impact occupants’ behavior related to natural ventilation in residential houses and how residents manage natural ventilation to affect indoor ai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,698 Views
26 Pages

12 September 2024

Due to the significant impact of occupant behavior uncertainty on building performance, robustness indicators are crucial for assessing and predicting building energy consumption. This study evaluates the robustness of building performance under occu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,098 Views
18 Pages

14 June 2019

Accompanying efforts worldwide to deploy sustainable building technologies shows a pressing need for expanded research on occupant behavior. Discourse is lacking concerning drivers of occupant behavior for energy conservation, especially in the case...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
8,107 Views
16 Pages

26 August 2014

In order to clarify the comfort temperature and to investigate the behavioral adaptation in Japanese houses, we have conducted a thermal comfort survey and occupant behavior survey in 30 living rooms during the hot and humid season in the Kanto regio...

  • Review
  • Open Access
60 Citations
12,242 Views
25 Pages

26 January 2021

Energy consumption in buildings depends on several physical factors, including its physical characteristics, various building services systems/appliances used, and the outdoor environment. However, the occupants’ behavior that determines and regulate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,786 Views
61 Pages

23 June 2025

Predicted natural ventilation (NV) often diverges from actual performance in dwellings. This discrepancy arises in part because most design tools do not account for how occupants actually operate windows. This study aims to determine how window geome...

  • Article
  • Open Access
732 Views
17 Pages

13 October 2025

Understanding occupant behavior is critical for enhancing safety and situational awareness in intelligent transportation systems. This study investigates multimodal occupant behavior recognition using sequential inputs extracted from 2D pose, 2D gaze...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,073 Views
20 Pages

27 February 2024

Given the escalating global energy demand driven by building energy consumption, this study is dedicated to meticulously investigating efficient energy-saving strategies in buildings, with a keen focus on the impact of occupant behavior’s rando...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,056 Views
26 Pages

18 August 2022

Occupant behavior based on natural ventilation has a significant impact on building energy consumption. It is important for the quantification of occupant-behavior models to select observed variables, i.e., features that affect the state of window op...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,939 Views
21 Pages

Commercial prototype building models were developed by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) to analyze the energy savings of the ASHRAE 90.1 standard. However, in the DOE models, occupant behavior inputs were deterministic and the stochastici...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,436 Views
13 Pages

16 May 2020

Building energy simulation programs are used for optimal sizing of building systems to reduce excessive energy wastage. Such programs employ thermo-dynamic algorithms to estimate every aspect of the target building with a certain level of accuracy. C...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,411 Views
23 Pages

How Smart Meter Data Analysis Can Support Understanding the Impact of Occupant Behavior on Building Energy Performance: A Comprehensive Review

  • Jacqueline Nicole Adams,
  • Zsófia Deme Bélafi,
  • Miklós Horváth,
  • János Balázs Kocsis and
  • Tamás Csoknyai

27 April 2021

The goal of this literature review was to outline the research currently conducted on smart meter (SM) adoption and its connection to building occupant behavior to better understand both SM technology and SM customers. We compiled our findings from t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,320 Views
25 Pages

Performance Gap and Occupant Behavior in Building Retrofit: Focus on Dynamics of Change and Continuity in the Practice of Indoor Heating

  • Giuseppe Salvia,
  • Eugenio Morello,
  • Federica Rotondo,
  • Andrea Sangalli,
  • Francesco Causone,
  • Silvia Erba and
  • Lorenzo Pagliano

20 July 2020

Building retrofit is often reported to fail in achieving predicted energy savings; this mismatch in post-retrofit conditions is labeled the ‘energy performance gap’ and may be due to both occupant behavior and technical issues. In this st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,150 Views
31 Pages

Global warming is currently progressing worldwide, and it is important to control greenhouse gas emissions from the perspective of adaptation and mitigation. Occupant behavior is highly individualized and must be analyzed to accurately determine a bu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,718 Views
19 Pages

25 October 2023

The utilization of primary school buildings is multifaceted, primarily due to the high occupancy density, varying thermal preferences among occupants, diverse indoor activities (such as walking, sports, and conversation), and a constant flow of indiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,042 Views
17 Pages

It is important to reduce the building load and downsize the heat source equipment capacity during construction or renovation carried out toward the achievement of carbon neutrality by 2050 in Japan. However, this sometimes results in the oversizing...

  • Review
  • Open Access
71 Citations
10,504 Views
34 Pages

1 October 2015

Buildings currently account for 30–40 percent of total global energy consumption. In particular, commercial buildings are responsible for about 12 percent of global energy use and 21 percent of the United States’ energy use, and the energy demand of...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,846 Views
10 Pages

Occupational Difference in Oral Health Status and Behaviors in Japanese Workers: A Literature Review

  • Koichiro Irie,
  • Midori Tsuneishi,
  • Mitsumasa Saijo,
  • Chiaki Suzuki and
  • Tatsuo Yamamoto

The occupational environment is an important factor for oral health because people spend a long time in the workplace throughout their lives and are affected by work-related stress and occupational health policies. This study aimed to review evidence...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,457 Views
20 Pages

10 August 2022

A green building is believed to promote green behaviors from energy-saving to waste recycling. Green building certifications have attracted wide interest, and some were made mandatory for publicly funded developments in cities such as Hong Kong. Poli...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,006 Views
5 Pages

Buildings’ contribution to global final energy use is about 30%, which makes them a primary focus for implementing energy-efficient measures. Building energy efficiency is an important consideration for residential buildings due to the signific...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,535 Views
13 Pages

This study examined the influence of health behaviors and occupational stress on the prediabetic state of male office workers, and identified related risks and influencing factors. The study used a cross-sectional design and performed an integrative...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,180 Views
11 Pages

16 November 2023

This study aimed to identify differences in health behaviors according to the employment status and occupation of cancer survivors, as well as to identify risk factors. Using data from the Korea National and Health Nutrition Examination Survey (2008&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,382 Views
24 Pages

Building Energy Management for Passive Cooling Based on Stochastic Occupants Behavior Evaluation

  • Michele Roccotelli,
  • Alessandro Rinaldi,
  • Maria Pia Fanti and
  • Francesco Iannone

29 December 2020

The common approach to model occupants behaviors in buildings is deterministic and consists of assumptions based on predefined fixed schedules or rules. In contrast with the deterministic models, stochastic and agent based (AB) models are the most po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
8,851 Views
25 Pages

To reduce harm caused by occupational health risks of construction workers exposed to working environments, especially those for interior decoration, it is crucial for them to actively recognize and prevent these risks. Therefore, how to improve thei...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,459 Views
10 Pages

The Association of Occupational Stress with Anxiety among Chinese Civil Pilots: The Moderating Role of Type A Behavior Pattern

  • Yanlong Wang,
  • Wei Guo,
  • Lin Cheng,
  • Ruipeng Ji,
  • Yizhi Zhou,
  • Xinhua Liu,
  • Yanzeng Zhao,
  • Ziyu Liu and
  • Lijing Wang

22 November 2022

Pilots are highly susceptible to anxiety symptoms due to the uncertainty of the dangers of aviation operations and the potential terror and insecurity that pilots experience over time. This research aims to understand the complex relationship between...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,247 Views
17 Pages

30 December 2024

Background: Sleep disturbances affect about 40% of the global population and are a common issue among patients seeking medical consultation. There is limited research on sleep disturbances in Taiwan’s traditional industry workforce. Objective:...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,438 Views
18 Pages

7 December 2020

Energy performance of buildings is a worldwide increasing investigated field, due to ever more stringent energy standards aimed at reducing the buildings’ impact on the environment. The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact that occupan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,454 Views
17 Pages

14 February 2023

Occupant behavior (OB) has a significant impact on household air-conditioner (AC) energy use. In recent years, bottom-up simulation coupled with stochastic OB modeling has been intensively developed for estimating residential AC consumption. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,043 Views
21 Pages

29 April 2024

The firefighting protective suits (FPSs) of firefighters at fire scenes affect their health and safety. However, the association between firefighters’ health awareness of occupational exposure risks and the FPS use, washing and management remai...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,087 Views
21 Pages

22 August 2023

In the light of global climate change and the current energy crisis, it is crucial to target sustainable energy use in all sectors. Buildings still remain one of the most energy-demanding sectors. Campus buildings and higher educational buildings are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,805 Views
21 Pages

Occupants’ Thermal Adaptive Behavior Pattern in Indonesian Residential Buildings

  • Sri Rahma Apriliyanthi,
  • Tomonori Sakoi,
  • Takashi Nakaya,
  • Tetsu Kubota,
  • Mochammad Donny Koerniawan,
  • Muhammad Nur Fajri Alfata,
  • Akhlish Diinal Aziiz,
  • Fefen Suhedi and
  • Inat Shani Fathuna

30 December 2024

Occupants’ adaptive behaviors (OABs) can boost thermal acceptability. This study aims to identify the OAB pattern in the hot-humid region of Indonesia and compare the thermal acceptability percentage of the groups with the identified patterns....

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,160 Views
9 Pages

This study examined the associations of overall and domain-specific (i.e., occupational, transport, and leisure-time) sedentary behaviors with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors among high-tech company employees in Taiwan. A total of 363 parti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,231 Views
28 Pages

BIM-Based Co-Simulation of Fire and Occupants’ Behavior for Safe Construction Rehabilitation Planning

  • Seyedeh Tannaz Shams Abadi,
  • Nojan Moniri Tokmehdash,
  • Abdelhady Hosny and
  • Mazdak Nik-Bakht

4 October 2021

Construction renovation projects increase the risk of structural fire, mostly due to the accumulation of combustible construction materials and waste. In particular, when the building remains operational during such projects, the redistribution of oc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,633 Views
30 Pages

Development of Adaptive Model and Occupant Behavior Model in Four Office Buildings in Nagasaki, Japan

  • Kahori Genjo,
  • Haruna Nakanishi,
  • Momoka Oki,
  • Hikaru Imagawa,
  • Tomoko Uno,
  • Teruyuki Saito,
  • Hiroshi Takata,
  • Kazuyo Tsuzuki,
  • Takashi Nakaya and
  • Hom Bahadur Rijal
  • + 3 authors

18 August 2023

A field survey of indoor environmental measurements and questionnaires on thermal sensation, overall comfort, and behaviors was conducted in four office buildings in Japan by visiting each office every month over a duration of more than a year during...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,566 Views
17 Pages

To achieve sustainable development goals, it is necessary to establish a positive organization so that employees can pay attention to their strengths and talents and engage in more proactive behaviors, such as taking charge behavior. Taking charge be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,993 Views
18 Pages

12 November 2019

This study aims to provide an experimental assessment of energy consumption in an existing public building in Poland, in order to analyze the impact of occupant behavior on that consumption. The building is naturally ventilated and the occupants have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,620 Views
15 Pages

Workers’ health surveillance (WHS) is an important preventive activity aimed at prevention of work-related diseases. However, WHS is not regularly implemented in some EU-countries. As occupational physicians (OPs) have to play an important role in im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,005 Views
25 Pages

19 December 2024

The use of photovoltaic systems in residential buildings represents a solution for reducing CO2 emissions and users’ bill costs. To fully experience these advantages, however, correct use of the solar technology is necessary. Many researchers h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,453 Views
13 Pages

Assessing Environmental Control Strategies in Cage-Free Egg Production Systems: Effect on Spatial Occupancy and Natural Behaviors

  • Andrés F. Gonzalez-Mora,
  • Araceli D. Larios,
  • Alain N. Rousseau,
  • Stéphane Godbout,
  • Cédric Morin,
  • Joahnn H. Palacios,
  • Michèle Grenier and
  • Sébastien Fournel

24 December 2020

Animal welfare concerns have been a challenging issue for producers and international marketing. In laying hen production, cage-free systems (CFS) have been identified as an alternative to ensure the laying hens’ well-being. Nevertheless, in CF...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,374 Views
33 Pages

6 October 2018

With ever-increasing population and urbanization, it is crucial to decrease energy density in the built environment without sacrificing occupants’ comfort and well-being. This requires consideration of technological developments along with the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,525 Views
20 Pages

Airborne Particulate Matter in Two Multi-Family Green Buildings: Concentrations and Effect of Ventilation and Occupant Behavior

  • Allison P. Patton,
  • Leonardo Calderon,
  • Youyou Xiong,
  • Zuocheng Wang,
  • Jennifer Senick,
  • MaryAnn Sorensen Allacci,
  • Deborah Plotnik,
  • Richard Wener,
  • Clinton J. Andrews and
  • Gediminas Mainelis
  • + 1 author

There are limited data on air quality parameters, including airborne particulate matter (PM) in residential green buildings, which are increasing in prevalence. Exposure to PM is associated with cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, and since Americ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,905 Views
31 Pages

19 November 2022

Traditional building energy consumption prediction methods lack the description of occupant behaviors. The interactions between occupants and equipment have great influence on building energy consumption, which cause a large deviation between the pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
927 Views
34 Pages

26 September 2025

This study presents a stochastic Markov-based modeling framework for occupant behavior and residential lighting demand in Luxembourg. Integrating demographic data, time-use surveys, Markov chains, and dual-layer optimization, the model enhances the a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,514 Views
36 Pages

26 January 2025

This study presents a cooperative system where drones and ground robots share information to efficiently complete tasks in environments that challenge the capabilities of a single robot. Drones focus on exploring high-interest areas for ground robots...

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