CAREER: Building Occupant Network Dynamics (BOND) - Multi-scale Experimentation and Simulation in the Built Environment to Achieve Sustained Energy Conservation

该学院早期职业发展(Career)计划奖项的研究目标是了解、改进和预测建筑居住者网络中发生的动态，当这些网络中的个人可以查看他们同行的能源利用时。在追求这一目标的过程中，这项研究旨在解决减少建筑能耗和相关温室气体排放的重大挑战。将在住宅和行政建筑中进行四个能源利用实验，以经验地评估和模拟居住者和居住者网络之间在影响能源使用决策方面的复杂相互关系。这些实验结果将被集成到基于代理的模拟模型中，以预测建筑物居住者网络动态对实现建筑物内和建筑物之间的持续节能的影响。这一职业计划奖项的教学目标是将课堂实验和教学模拟相结合，以实现批判性思维和更高层次的学习，以培养国家工程院和美国土木工程师学会呼吁的未来充满活力的工程师。如果成功，这项研究的结果将通过建立社会和物理网络对实现建筑持续节能的关键影响，增强我们对建筑能效的理解。这项研究将同时有助于实现我们地方和国家政府制定的雄心勃勃的温室气体排放目标，并有助于建立关于网络动态的基础知识。这项研究将为建筑物居住者将自己与节能做法联系在一起的网络以及这些做法在建筑物居住者网络中的传播提供一个新的视角，这些做法将得到衡量和解释。这些发现和由此产生的模拟将被整合到大学和K-12的教学和社区推广中。

The research objective of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program award is to understand, improve and predict the dynamics that occur in networks of building occupants when individuals in these networks can view energy utilization of their peers. In pursuing this objective, this research aims to address the grand challenge of reducing building energy consumption and associated greenhouse gas emissions. Four energy utilization experiments in residential and administrative buildings will be performed to empirically assess and model the complex inter-relationships between occupants and occupant networks in influencing energy use decisions. These experimental results will be integrated into an agent-based simulation model to predict the impact of building occupant network dynamics on achieving sustained energy conservation in and across buildings. The pedagogical objective of this CAREER program award is to combine in-class experiments and pedagogical simulations to achieve critical thinking and higher order learning that fosters the dynamic engineer of the future called for by the National Academy of Engineering and the American Society of Civil Engineers.If successful, the results of this research will enhance our understanding of energy efficiency in buildings by establishing the critical influence of social and physical networks on achieving sustained energy conservation in buildings. The research will contribute simultaneously to the meeting of ambitious greenhouse gas emission targets set by our local and national governments and to the creation of fundamental knowledge on network dynamics. The research will contribute a new perspective on networks within which building occupants associate themselves with energy conservation practices and the diffusion of those practices within building occupant networks that will be measured and explained. The findings and the resulting simulation will be integrated into university and K-12 teaching and community outreach.