Developing English domestic occupancy profiles
| Autor: | Victoria Aragon, Ben Anderson, Stephanie Gauthier, Peter Warren, Patrick James |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Occupancy Full-time 020209 energy media_common.quotation_subject 0211 other engineering and technologies Sample (statistics) 02 engineering and technology Building and Construction General Social Survey Time-use survey Geography Systematic review 021105 building & construction 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Econometrics Quality (business) Civil and Structural Engineering media_common |
| Zdroj: | Building Research & Information |
| ISSN: | 1466-4321 0961-3218 |
| Popis: | Occupancy patterns are necessary to estimate energy demand and evaluate thermal comfort in households. Because of this, many European countries are developing representative domestic schedules to replace outdated criteria. This paper evaluates the state of knowledge of UK domestic occupancy patterns and develops new domestic occupancy profiles for England. The presented research (1) characterizes methods for collecting occupancy data and inferring patterns; (2) identifies and assesses the quality of categories of occupancy patterns used in building simulation; and (3) develops updated occupancy profiles. A systematic scoping review identified social and monitoring surveys as the most deployed data-collection methods. A systematic literature review also established that the occupancy categories most frequently used in UK building simulation are (a) a family with dependent children where the parents work full time; and (b) a retired elderly couple who spend most of their time indoors. The interview sample from the English Housing Survey 2014���15 was used to map household typologies. Results show that categories (a) and (b) combined amount to only 19% of England���s households, which suggest models are over-reliant on these groups. Considering this result, the paper develops occupancy patterns for England derived from 2015 UK Time Use Survey diaries for each household typology previously identified. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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