Better home energy audit modelling: Incorporating inhabitant behaviours

Building Research and Information

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 409-421

  Ingle, Aaron ^a   Moezzi, Mithra ^a   Lutzenhiser, Loren ^a   Diamond, Richard ^b  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asset models; Energy; Energy models; Home energy audits; Homeowners; Housing; Inhabitant behaviour; Low carbon; Renovation; Retrofit; United States

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HEATING; HOUSING; MODELS; RETROFITTING;

ENERGY; ENERGY AUDIT; ENERGY MODEL; HOMEOWNERS; INHABITANT BEHAVIOUR; LOW CARBON; RENOVATION; RETROFIT; UNITED STATES;

ENERGY UTILIZATION;

EID: 84901241702     PISSN: 09613218     EISSN: 14664321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09613218.2014.890776     Document Type: Article

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