Coordination and participation in IEA EBC Annex 79

The purpose of the project is to enable coordination and participation of a project under the international energy agency (IEA), named Annex 79: “Occupant behaviour-centric building design and operation” which is a project under IEA’s program for “Energy in Buildings and Communities” (EBC). The overall goal of annex 79 is to integrate and implement occupancy and occupant behaviour into the design process and building operation to improve both energy performance and occupant comfort. The purpose of the Annex is to provide new insight into comfort-related occupant behaviour in buildings and its impact on building energy performance. An open collaboration platform for data and software will support the use of data-mining methods and advanced occupant behaviour models. It will further promote the usage of this knowledge in building design and operation processes by giving policy support, preparing proposals for standards and providing guidelines for practitioners. Results of the Annex will be widely disseminated among others through conference and journal publications, books, technical reports, and guidelines. The project will disseminate the outcomes to relevant Danish stakeholders in the building sector.