/ ASHRAE MTG.OBB
Multidisciplinary Task Group on Occupant Behavior in Buildings

Full committee conference call

10-11am PDT, November 4th 2016

Agenda

  1. Chair updates: Tianzhen Hong

Roundtableintroduction. A total of 22 Participants attended the Conference Call:

1)Tianzhen Hong, LBNL (Chair)

2)Da Yan, Tsinghua University (vice-Chair)

3)Simona D’Oca, LBNL (Secretary)

4)Jared Langevin, LBNL

5)Bing Dong, UTSA

6)Rob Hitchcock

7)AbhjeetPande, TRC Solutions

8)Glenn Friedman, Taylor Engineering

9)KheePoh Lam, National University of Singapore

10)William O’Brien, Carleton University, Canada

11)Zheng O’Neil, University of Alabama

12)Jay Zhao, DELOS

13)Dane Christenses, NREL

14)Gang Tang, University of Wyoming

15)Frederick Marks, Salk Institute

16)Julia Day, KSU

17)Donald Horn, GSA

18)Elyse Malherek, TWGI

19)Kimberly Barker, SIEMENS

20)Michael Malherek, LUTRON

21)Mike Blanford, US HUD

22)Tom Justice, ZENE

  1. Research ideas for RTAR.

1)Bing Dong: occupancy, occupant location, using social mining techniques.

  1. No information about comfort (not at this stage, there are already similar studies on thermal votes), just focus on presence.
  2. The location will be defined as typology of room occupied (i.e. office, classroom) and building type. No information on fenestration to outdoor/lighting is collected.
  3. Discussion on the final outcomes of the study, i.e. design of space use, schedules for building simulations, connection to ASHRAE TC4.7 Chapter 19 Fundamentals (occupant schedules as diversity factors)
  4. RTAR circulated to the MTG for review.

2)Rob Hitchcock: integration of the obXML (as described in the DNAS framework) withBIM (gbXML, EnergyADE). Draft to be ready before the LV conference.

3)Zheng O’Neil: uncertainty quantification of OB for building simulation. Development of a computation framework to be integrated with energy simulation tools (i.e. E+). Draft to be ready before the LV conference.

4)Frederick Marks: impact of darkness to improve occupant’s health.

  1. Seminar ideas for the summer conference in Long Beach

Oneseminar at the Las Vegas Winter Conference

1)Tianzhen Hong, LBNL: MTG.OBB

2)Marina Sofos, DOE: HIL controls

3)Bing Dong, UTSA: occupancy-based controls

4)Jay Zhao, DELOS: occupancy application and case studies

3 proposed ideas for seminars at the Long Beach Summer Conference.

1)Da Yan, Tsinghua University: integration of OB models into MPC to improve operational outcomes in real case study building applications (CERC 2.0)

2)Jay Zhao, DELOS: impact of OB on comfort and health

3)Jared Langevin, LBNL: decision science and technology adoption

Seminar proposals to circulate before the Las Vegas winter meeting.

Bing Dong will share template for Seminar Proposal

  1. Outline of a white paper

A first outline of the WP was sent via email.

Preliminary comments are collected and will be merged into a Google Doc.

Additional comments emerged during the Conference Call:

1)Rob Hitchcock: which behavior are we referring to? Occupant Behavior or Behavior of Designers/Occupants? How to describe the link?

2)William O’Brien: other than mechanical issues related to the implementation of behavioral models into BPS, there are still uncovered “theoretical” concerns related to correct practical usage of behavioral models, i.e. how to avoid cheating, how to best describe occupant diversity, how to drive building energy codes through real case study applications.

3)Jared Langevin

  1. How to include the topic of decision science as one of the aspects related to occupant behavior?
  2. Primary energy reduction goals must be supported by references, i.e. EIA 2016 Outlook, Scout 2030 projection (Determine the energy use associated with building components, equipment, and other end uses in residential and commercial buildings).

4)Dane: describe different needs of understanding and integrating occupant behavior for specific use cases over the entire building life cycle. Correlation between different OBs in buildings having a high-intensity usage (i.e. high miscellaneous = high heating energy consumption). Defining PDF of residential set point choices based on climate variation

5)Jay Zhao: Interaction OB/comfort and health, i.e. based on age, gender, etc.

  1. Other topics for discussion at the Las Vegas conference

Set up of the BaseCamp project management/collaboration tool, to share drafts and develop comments and feedback.