Towards Assessing Houses Resistance and Resilience Indicators At Inhabitants’ Actions Using Temporal Sensitivity Analysis

This paper tends to evaluate the robustness of the summer building behaviour under inhabitants’ actions. For that, two indicators are introduced: the resilience and the resistance of a building at the inhabitants’ action. They evaluate by means of time-dependent sensitivity analyses how in amplitude and duration an inhabitants’ action impacts the indoor operative temperature. The inhabitants’ actions under the scope of the study are timerelated and are: the opening of blinds and windows, the use of electrical appliances and the use of mechanical night ventilation. The evaluation of these indicators for two different designs of a low-energy house (with and without overhangs) reveals for both cases that the opening of windows in the morning is the action with the most influence during an heat-wave period in term of intensity and persistence in time.