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A. Mahdavi, F. Tahmasebi, W. O´Brien, H. Burak Gunay:
"The diversity challenge in models of occupants' presence in buildings";
Talk: Building Simulation Applications - 3rd IBPSA-Italy Conference Bozen-Bolzano 8.2.17 - 10.2.17, Bozen, Italien; 2017-02-08 - 2017-02-10; in: "Building Simulation Applications Proceedings", M Baratieri, V. Corrado, A. Gasparella, F. Patuzzi (ed.); bu.press (publisher of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), 3. (2017), ISSN: 2531-6702; Paper ID 70, 6 pages.

This contribution is concerned with a number of basic questions regarding inhabitants' presence in buildings: How diverse are office inhabitants' presence patterns? Aside from the difference in the absolute values of the defining markers of such patterns (e.g. arrival and departure times), to which extent do the respective distributions of the marker values differ from inhabitant to inhabitant? Are tendencies regarding presence patterns in one location transportable to other locations? Can the diversity of presence patterns amongst the inhabitants be reproduced via randomisation of the marker's mean values? To explore these questions, we use monitored presence data from two offices in two different locations. The findings point to considerable differences amongst inhabitants and locations. Moreover, empirically observable diversity of office workers' presence patterns cannot be simply reproduced based on randomisation of generic presence patterns.

(no german version available) This contribution is concerned with a number of basic questions regarding inhabitants' presence in buildings: How diverse are office inhabitants' presence patterns? Aside from the difference in the absolute values of the defining markers of such patterns (e.g. arrival and departure times), to which extent do the respective distributions of the marker values differ from inhabitant to inhabitant? Are tendencies regarding presence patterns in one location transportable to other locations? Can the diversity of presence patterns amongst the inhabitants be reproduced via randomisation of the marker's mean values? To explore these questions, we use monitored presence data from two offices in two different locations. The findings point to considerable differences amongst inhabitants and locations. Moreover, empirically observable diversity of office workers' presence patterns cannot be simply reproduced based on randomisation of generic presence patterns.

Occupancy, Presence patterns, Offices, diversity, building performance modelling