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Contributions to Books:

A. Mahdavi:
"People in building performance simulation";
in: "Building Performance Simulation for Design and Operation", J. Hensen, R. Lamberts (ed.); Taylor & Francis, New York, 2011, ISBN: 9780415474146, 56 - 83.



English abstract:
This chapter addresses the effect of people's presence and their actions on buildings' performance. It discusses the associated modeling approaches and information input options in view of a more reliable prediction of such effects in the course of building performance simulation studies.

Keywords:
occupancy, control actions, building systems