Journal article
Understanding patterns of adaptive comfort behaviour in the Sydney mixed-mode residential context
J Kim, R de Dear, T Parkinson, C Candido
Energy and Buildings | ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA | Published : 2017
Abstract
The role of occupants is important as building energy consumption is significantly attributed to their behaviour. Given the diverse activities within, and high levels of personal control over the indoor environment, occupants’ behaviour is one of the key uncertainties in predicting energy use in the residential sector. With an aim to better understand residential adaptive thermal comfort behaviours, longitudinal field observations were conducted with smartphone surveys and simultaneous temperature measurements in a sample of Australian homes (n = 42). This paper derives statistical models to enable predicting of the percentage of adaptive strategies in use (e.g. operation of air-conditioners..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council's Discovery Projects
Funding Acknowledgements
This research was supported under Australian Research Council's Discovery Projects (project number DP11010559). The methods used in this project were approved by the University of Sydney Human Research Ethics Committee (protocol 2012/1785). This work was conducted as part of the research activities under the International Energy Agency Energy in Buildings and Communities Program (IEA-EBC) Annex 66-Definition and Simulation of Occupant Behavior in Buildings. The authors would like to thank Professor Paul Cooper and Dr Zhenjun Ma of the Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC) at the University of Wollongong, the Sydney team of research assistants, including Dr Max Deuble, Tatiana Schukkert, Paola Cerda, Greg Zheng, Marina Rodrigues, and all 42 Sydney and Wollongong householders who participated in this study.