Campus Units
Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Architecture
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Conference
2020 Building Performance Analysis Simbuild Virtual Conference
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
2020
First Page
681
Last Page
689
Research Focus Area
Environmental/Water Resources Engineering
Conference Title
2020 Building Performance Analysis Simbuild Virtual Conference
Conference Date
August 12-14, 2020
Abstract
Misrepresentative occupancy schedules cause uncertainty in building energy simulations which often results in an undesired gap between actual performance and predictions. To address this issue, stochastic building occupancy models, which commonly use time-use surveys (TUS) as their input, have been proposed as a replacement for the conventional generic static schedules. This paper describes the development of a two-state stochastic occupancy model based on the 2017 American TUS (ATUS) that takes account of differences between weekdays and weekends. In this model, survey respondents were clustered based on the number of residents in their households and a first-order Markov-Chain technique was used to generate occupancy presence schedules.
Rights
For personal use only. Additional reproduction, distribution, or transmission in either print or digital form is not permitted without ASHRAE or IBPSA-USA's prior written permission.
Copyright Owner
ASHRAE (www.ashrae.org) and IBPSA-USA (www.ibpsa.us)
Copyright Date
2020
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Malekpour Koupaei, Diba and Passe, Ulrike, "A Two-State Stochastic Residential Building Occupancy Model Based on the American Time-Use Survey Data" (2020). Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering Conference Presentations and Proceedings. 118.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/ccee_conf/118
Included in
Civil and Environmental Engineering Commons, Urban, Community and Regional Planning Commons
Comments
This proceeding is published as Koupaei, Diba Malekpour, and Ulrike Passe. "A Two-State Stochastic Residential Building Occupancy Model Based on the American Time-Use Survey Data." 2020 Building Performance Analysis Simbuild Virtual Conference. August 12-14, 2020. Posted with permission.