Simulation-aided occupant-centric building design: A critical review of tools, methods, and applications
Abstract
Occupants are active participants in their built environment, affecting its performance while simultaneously being affected by its design and indoor environmental conditions. With recent advances in computer modeling, simulation tools, and analysis techniques, topics such as human-building interactions and occupant behavior have gained significant interest in the literature given their premise of improving building design processes and operating strategies. In practice, the focus of occupant-centric literature has been mostly geared towards the latter (i.e., operation), leaving the implications on building design practices underexplored. This paper fills the gap by providing a critical review of existing studies applying computer-based modeling and simulation to guide occupant-centric building design. The reviewed papers are organized along four main themes, namely occupant-centric: (i) metrics of building performance, (ii) modeling and simulation approaches, (iii) design methods and applications, and (iv) supporting practices and mechanisms. Important barriers are identified for a more effective application of occupant-centric building design practices, including the limited consideration of metrics beyond energy efficiency (e.g., occupant well-being and space planning), the limited implementation and validation of the proposed methods, and the lack of integration of occupant behavior modeling in existing building performance simulation tools. Finally, future research directions are discussed, covering large-scale internationalmore »
- Authors:
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- Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)
- Carleton Univ., Ottawa, ON (Canada)
- The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia (Cyprus); Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (Norway)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
- Univ. of Waterloo, ON (Canada)
- Univ. of Toronto, ON (Canada)
- Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States)
- Concordia University, Montreal, QC (Canada)
- Univ. College London (United Kingdom)
- Monash Univ., Melbourne, VIC (Australia)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Building Technologies Office; Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (ADEK); Center for Integrated Facility Engineering; National Science Foundation (NSF); European Union’s Horizon 2020
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1784287
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; AARE18-063; 1461549; 1836995; 680529
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Energy and Buildings
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 224; Journal ID: ISSN 0378-7788
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; Building design; Occupant-centric; Building performance simulation; Occupant behavior; Human-building interaction; Performance metrics
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Azar, Elie, O'Brien, William, Carlucci, Salvatore, Hong, Tianzhen, Sonta, Andrew, Kim, Joyce, Andargie, Maedot S., Abuimara, Tareq, El Asmar, Mounir, Jain, Rishee K., Ouf, Mohamed M., Tahmasebi, Farhang, and Zhou, Jin. Simulation-aided occupant-centric building design: A critical review of tools, methods, and applications. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.110292.
Azar, Elie, O'Brien, William, Carlucci, Salvatore, Hong, Tianzhen, Sonta, Andrew, Kim, Joyce, Andargie, Maedot S., Abuimara, Tareq, El Asmar, Mounir, Jain, Rishee K., Ouf, Mohamed M., Tahmasebi, Farhang, & Zhou, Jin. Simulation-aided occupant-centric building design: A critical review of tools, methods, and applications. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.110292
Azar, Elie, O'Brien, William, Carlucci, Salvatore, Hong, Tianzhen, Sonta, Andrew, Kim, Joyce, Andargie, Maedot S., Abuimara, Tareq, El Asmar, Mounir, Jain, Rishee K., Ouf, Mohamed M., Tahmasebi, Farhang, and Zhou, Jin. Sun .
"Simulation-aided occupant-centric building design: A critical review of tools, methods, and applications". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.110292. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1784287.
@article{osti_1784287,
title = {Simulation-aided occupant-centric building design: A critical review of tools, methods, and applications},
author = {Azar, Elie and O'Brien, William and Carlucci, Salvatore and Hong, Tianzhen and Sonta, Andrew and Kim, Joyce and Andargie, Maedot S. and Abuimara, Tareq and El Asmar, Mounir and Jain, Rishee K. and Ouf, Mohamed M. and Tahmasebi, Farhang and Zhou, Jin},
abstractNote = {Occupants are active participants in their built environment, affecting its performance while simultaneously being affected by its design and indoor environmental conditions. With recent advances in computer modeling, simulation tools, and analysis techniques, topics such as human-building interactions and occupant behavior have gained significant interest in the literature given their premise of improving building design processes and operating strategies. In practice, the focus of occupant-centric literature has been mostly geared towards the latter (i.e., operation), leaving the implications on building design practices underexplored. This paper fills the gap by providing a critical review of existing studies applying computer-based modeling and simulation to guide occupant-centric building design. The reviewed papers are organized along four main themes, namely occupant-centric: (i) metrics of building performance, (ii) modeling and simulation approaches, (iii) design methods and applications, and (iv) supporting practices and mechanisms. Important barriers are identified for a more effective application of occupant-centric building design practices, including the limited consideration of metrics beyond energy efficiency (e.g., occupant well-being and space planning), the limited implementation and validation of the proposed methods, and the lack of integration of occupant behavior modeling in existing building performance simulation tools. Finally, future research directions are discussed, covering large-scale international data collection efforts to move from generic assumptions about occupant behavior to specific/localized knowledge, improved metrics of measuring building performance, and improved industry practices, such as building codes, to promote an occupant-in-the-loop approach to the building design process.},
doi = {10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.110292},
journal = {Energy and Buildings},
number = ,
volume = 224,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Jul 12 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Sun Jul 12 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}
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