The Effect of Occupants’ Behaviour on the Building Performance Gap: UK Residential Case Studies
, Radwa Salem 1, Anastasia Mylona 2, Agha Usama Hasan 1 and Hexin Zhang 3
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
An important study. It is widely known energy calculations are different from in situ measurements. It is important to know the reasons for this phenomen.
Specify air permeability for each house separately.
Provide a more detailed description of the ventilation of the buildings.
Temperature setpoints for A1-A4 houses seem low (Table 1). Are they correct?
Change the phrase "energy consumption". Energy need or energy demand is more appropriate.
What is energy consumption? Based on the results it is electricity consumption.
Provide a more detailed discussion about ventilation and air permeability. These two parameters have a significant impact on energy demands.
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Reviewer 2 Report
The topic of the paper is meaningful for knowledge and the community. It used seven residential buildings in UK as case study to evaluate occupants’ behaviour on the buildings' performance. References were up-to-date.
It would be better if the background information of those seven residential buildings could be elaborated in the paper.
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Reviewer 3 Report
The paper deals with an interesting topic which is effect of occupants behaviour on energy performance gap. I have the following comments:
-In Tas how are occupants modeeled? Did author use a determministic approach? What do authors think about stochastic aopproaches in occupants modelling? Could it reduce gap?
-What is the impact of infiltration on results? why authors used a value of 0.5 ACH for all cases?
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