Methods for the prediction of intermediate activities by office occupants

Building and Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1366-1372

  Tabak, Vincent ^a   de Vries, Bauke ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Building evaluation; Building performance; Occupant activities; Occupant behavior

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY BEHAVIOR; BUILDING PERFORMANCE; COMPUTER MODELS; EXPERIMENT DATA; INPUT DATAS; OCCUPANT ACTIVITIES; OCCUPANT BEHAVIOR; PARAMETER VALUES; PREDICTION METHODS; S-CURVE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

BUILDINGS;

BUILDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; WORKPLACE;

EID: 75949098313     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2009.11.018     Document Type: Article

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