• How Assumptions About Occupants Can Misinform Building Design

How Assumptions About Occupants Can Misinform Building Design

ASHRAE , 2020

Publisher: ASHRAE

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Thegap between predicted and actual building performance can occur becausedifferences in occupant-related design assumptions between codes and standards,practitioner experience, or building performance simulation tool defaultvalues. This article highlights the potential implications of inconsistency inmodeling assumptions through a simulation-based investigation and proposesstrategies for improving the design assumptions

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