Sustainable human-building ecosystems
Subtitle: selected papers from the First International Symposium on Sustainable Human-Building Ecosystems, October 5-6, 2015, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
By: sponsored by Research Coordination Network on Sustainable Human-Building Ecosystems of the University of North Texas ; edited by Yimin Zhu, Ph. D., Khee Poh Lam, Ph. D., Yong Tao, Ph. D.
Contributors: Zhu, Yimin (College teacher), editor; Lam, Khee Poh, 1956- editor; Tao, Yong X., editor; Research Coordination Network on Sustainable Human-Building Ecosystems; American Society of Civil Engineers
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Reston, Virginia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781523101726; 9780784479681
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Sustainable buildings; Congresses; Architecture; Human factors; Buildings; Environmental engineering; Constructions durables; Congrès; Facteurs humains; Constructions; Technique de l'environnement
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Human Ecology and Building Science : A Necessary Synthesis; title: Occupant Behaviors and Energy Use : Creating High-Performance People for High-Performance Buildings; title: Participatory Energy Management in Building Networks; title: One Size Does Not Fit All : Eco-Feedback Programs Require Tailored Feedback; title: Development of Non-Intrusive Occupant Load Monitoring (NIOLM) in Commercial Buildings : Assessing Occupants' Energy-Use Behavior at Entry and Departure Events; title: Default Conditions : A Reason for Design to Integrate Human Factors; title: Assessing Energy Strategies in Active Buildings Considering Human Behaviour; title: Estimating Occupancy in an Office Setting; title: Event-Based Parallel Simulation with a Sensing System for Occupant Distribution Estimation in the Whole Building Scale; title: Effects of Variant Occupancy Transitions on the Energy Implications of Setpoint/Setback Control Policies; title: A Study of Time-Dependent Variations in Personal Thermal Comfort via a Dynamic Bayesian Network; title: Occupant Individual Thermal Comfort Data Analysis in an Office; title: Facial Skin Temperature as a Proactive Variable in a Building Thermal Comfort Control System; title: Advancing Occupant-Centered Performance Simulation Metrics Linking Commercial Environmental Quality to Health, Behavior, and Productivity.; title: Direct Measurement of Occupants' Skin Temperature and Human Thermal Comfort Sensation for Building Comfort Control; title: Incorporation of Future Building Operating Conditions into the Modeling of Building Microclimate Interaction : A Feasibility Approach; title: Measuring the Effectiveness of an Immersive Virtual Environment for the Modeling and Prediction of Occupant Behavior; title: Integrated Project Delivery and Total Building Automation for the Nearly Net-Zero-Energy Q1 ThyssenKrupp Headquarters; title: Green Building Design as If People Mattered; title: Integration of QFD and Utility Theory to Improve End-User Satisfaction in the Design of High-Performance Buildings; title: The Power of Data Visualization : A Prototype Energy Performance Map for a University Campus; title: Using Relationship Mapping to Understand Sustainable Housing Stakeholders' Actions; title: The Weatherization Assistance Program : Social Policy or Energy Policy and Why It Matters; title: Towards Multi-Objective Optimization for Sustainable Buildings with Both Quantifiable and Non-Quantifiable Design Objectives; title: Inequality as a Barrier to Green Building Policy Adoptions in Cities.