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A. Mahdavi, F. Tahmasebi:
"Accounting for the diversity of use patterns in representations of office plug loads in building performance simulation";
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 71, 6 pages.

This paper explores the relationship between inhabitants' presence, the installed power for office equipment, and the resulting electrical energy use. This exploration is based on long-term observational data obtained from a continously monitored office area in Vienna, Austria. The findings facilitate the formulation of both simplified and probabilistic models to estimate annual and peak office plug loads. Aside from a general comparison of the performance of simple and stochastic models, the present contribution focuses on the question if an to which extent consideration of the diversity of the inhabitants influences the reliability of plug load predicitions.

(no german version available) This paper explores the relationship between inhabitants' presence, the installed power for office equipment, and the resulting electrical energy use. This exploration is based on long-term observational data obtained from a continously monitored office area in Vienna, Austria. The findings facilitate the formulation of both simplified and probabilistic models to estimate annual and peak office plug loads. Aside from a general comparison of the performance of simple and stochastic models, the present contribution focuses on the question if an to which extent consideration of the diversity of the inhabitants influences the reliability of plug load predicitions.

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