Faculty of Business Administration

AIM Seminar

Occupant Behavior Modelling for Building Simulation, Current Status & Future Challenge

Dr. Da YAN

Associate Professor

Department of Building Science

School of Architecture

Tsinghua University

Abstract

Occupant behavior is a key issue for building design optimization, energy diagnosis, performance evaluation, and building energy simulation due to its significant impact on real energy use and indoor environmental quality in buildings. However, the influence of occupant behavior is under-recognized or over-simplified in the design, construction, operation, and retrofit of buildings. Occupant behavior is complex, stochastic and multi-disciplinary. Having deep understanding of occupant behavior and being able to model and quantify its impact on use of building technologies and energy performance of buildings is crucial to design and operation of low energy buildings. Despite of current efforts in occupant behavior modeling, there are still significant and fundamental scientific problems remaining to be addressed on occupant behavior in buildings, including: data collection, model development, model evaluation, and model application.

Date: 05 Dec 2019 (Thu)

Time: 11:30-12:30

Venue: E22-3010

A Short Biography

Dr. Da Yan is a tenured associate Professor in School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, China. He earned his Ph.D. in Heating and Air Conditioning Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2005. Dr. Da Yan has made significant original contributions across a diverse set of research areas and projects.

His research focuses on energy efficiency of buildings in the areas including: human energy-related behavior, DeST research and development, building energy code and standards, and national building energy and policy study. His research has great impacts on both academic and industrial fields. He has published more than 50 referred SCI journal articles. He has also been involved in publishing dozens of books and building energy standards.

Dr. Da Yan serves as the chair of China HVAC Society’s Building Simulation Committee, the association focusing on the building energy modeling and simulation in China. He is the operating agent of IEA EBC Annex 66 with more than 100 participants from more than 20 countries. Dr. Da Yan serves as the associated editor of the International Journal of Building Simulation, and as the editorial board member of the Journal of Building Performance Simulation. In addition, he acts as the president of IBPSA-China (International Building Performance Simulation Association-China) and vice chair of ASHRAE OBB.MTG.