Occupants’ Adaptive Actions

People adapt the indoor environment to restore their preferred comfort sensations intervening on building’s controls. Such adjustments have a great impact on the building performances, especially in the nZEB contexts. As a consequence, the investigation and understanding of human-building interaction patterns can help to bridge the gap between real and predicted energy consumptions and to design buildings tailored for users’ preferences and needs. In this perspective, the current chapter investigates many adaptive actions, highlighting, in particular, the most recurring and frequent behaviours the occupants perform in buildings.

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