International Workshop on Implications of Occupant Behavior for Building Design and Operation: Now and the Future

1558853 P.I：董兵：该奖项部分支持“居住者行为对建筑设计和运营的影响：现在和未来”国际研讨会。本次研讨会将于2016年4月2日在奥地利维也纳科技大学举行。随着建筑系统的日益完善和人们在建筑中的时间越来越长，建筑的使用行为成为一个重要的研究课题，使用行为成为影响建筑能耗的主要因素之一。占用行为是指空间或建筑物中占用的存在和数量，以及人与建筑物的相互作用，如开/关窗户、百叶窗、开/关照明，以及占用者的偏好，如热舒适和照明舒适。建筑物使用行为研究面临的挑战是：(a)使用行为具有随机性和复杂性；(b)隐私问题使数据收集变得困难；(c)监控占用行为依赖于各种传感器，成本相对较高。由居住者行为引起的建筑环境变化也会对居住者产生生理和心理上的影响。到目前为止，基于占用行为的应用已经通过模拟和现场研究评估了潜在的节能效果。然而，目前的大多数研究都是个体和个案的，没有一个系统的和可扩展的方法。此外，现有的建筑基础设施阻碍了基于占用行为的工业产品和应用的发展，这将是讨论的主题之一。使用行为研究的最终目的是提高下一代节能建筑的设计和运行的同质化。本次研讨会的目的是确定现有占用行为研究的研究差距，包括学术研究和行业研究的障碍是什么，以及未来研究方向的确定。要讨论的主题包括：(1)建筑物占用率的建模和模拟；(3)基于占用行为的工业应用。本次工作坊的目标是：(a)通过圆桌讨论提高建筑科学、工程和网络物理系统的一般知识；(b)通过小组演讲和密集的技术讨论，促进建筑环境占用行为研究方法发展的知识；(c)为机械、土木及电脑工程学院及研究生提供一个交流意见的合作平台；(d)提供未来的研究方向，并鼓励教师和学生更多参与研究；(e)为未来的节能建筑提供更好的建筑设计和运作的见解。

1558853 P.I.: Dong, BingThis award is in partial support of the International Workshop on Implications of Occupant Behavior for Building Design and Operation: Now and the Future. This workshop will be held on April 2, 2016 at the University of Technology, Vienna, Austria. Occupancy behavior in buildings is becoming an important topic of research as building systems become more sophisticated and people spend more time in buildings, making occupancy behavior one of the leading influencers of energy consumption in buildings. Occupancy behavior refers to occupancy presence and numbers in spaces or a building, and human-building interactions, such as opening/closing windows, blinds, and turning on/off lighting, as well as occupant preferences, such as thermal and lighting comfort. The challenges to study occupancy behavior in buildings are: (a) occupancy behavior is stochastic and complex in nature; (b) privacy issues make data collection difficult; and (c) monitoring occupancy behavior relies on various sensors with relatively high costs. The changes of built environment caused by occupancy behavior also affect occupants physiologically and psychologically. To this date, potential energy savings from occupancy behavior based applications have been evaluated both by simulations and in field studies. However, most current studies are individual and case by case, without a systematic and scalable approach. In addition, existing building infrastructure impedes the development of occupancy behavior-based industry products and applications, which will be among the topics of discussion.The ultimate goal of occupancy behavior research is to improve building design and operation in a homogeneous way for next generation energy efficient buildings. The objective of this workshop is to identify the research gaps in existing occupancy behavior research including what the obstacles are and what is needed from both academic research and industry, and the identification of future research directions. The list of topics to be discussed includes: (1) Modeling and simulation of occupancy presence in buildings; (2) Human-building interactions (3) Occupancy behavior based applications in industry. This workshop is targeted to: (a) advance the general knowledge of building science, engineering and cyber-physical systems through round-table discussions; (b) advance the knowledge of methodological development in occupancy behavior research for built environment through panel presentations and intensive technical discussions; (c) provide a collaborative platform for mechanical, civil and computer engineering faculties and graduate students to exchange ideas; (d) provide future research directions and encourage more involvement of faculties and students to participate in those research; (e) provide insights on better building design and operation for future energy efficient buildings.