Abstract
Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) is an important topic which impacts on occupant health, productivity and also energy consumption in buildings. The four main parameters for IEQ evaluation are: Thermal comfort, indoor air quality, visual comfort and aural comfort. The occupant behavior in buildings defines as any direct or indirect act which an occupant selects to change the displeasure environmental condition into the comfort conditions. The selected behavior by human has a significant impact on the energy consumption in buildings. This paper reviews the methods which used to simulate IEQ parameters, energy consumption and human behavior in buildings. It aims to promote the idea of more consideration about the relation between occupant behavior and energy usage in buildings. This summary of existing studies about the importance of human behavior factor in energy simulation software helps to identify new methods and strategies for simulating IEQ, Energy and behavior.
Highlights
These Most people spend more than 90% of their time indoors [1]
The aim of this paper is to review the relation between Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and energy consumption in building based on Occupant behavior
The poor IEQ is caused sick building syndrome, less human productivity and more energy consumption.One the most important reason for considering IEQ in buildings is reducing the amount of energy usage.the heating, cooling, ventilation, water heating, lighting and electronics equipment are the main reasons for increasing building energy consumption, but the occupant activities affect on all of them.Occupant behavior is a physical and psychological response to the environmental conditions to manage the dissatisfied conditions .This is why, the human behaviour is closely related to the energy usage in residential and commercial buildings and should be consider as an important factor in the field of built environment
Summary
The importance of Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) is it impacts on energy efficiency and productivity and health of occupants. Thermal comfort, indoor air quality, visual comfort and aural comfort are four main physical parameters which are normally used to determine IEQ. There will be a rising focus on energy consumption and indoor environmental quality in existing buildings and the future buildings. There is a significant relation between energy consumption and the features which are considered in the indoor environment (temperature, ventilation and lighting) and building design and operation. The aim of this paper is to review the relation between IEQ and energy consumption in building based on Occupant behavior. Based on United States Green Building Council (USGBC), Water efficiency, materials and resources, energy and atmosphere, sustainable sites and indoor environmental quality should be consider for a green building. Measuring of IEQ is commonly validate by four aspects: i.e. Thermal comfort (TC), Indoor air quality (IAQ), Aural comfort (AC) and Visual comfort (VC) [3, 4]
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