Conference Paper

Proceedings of ASim Conference 2012: 1st Asia conference of IBPSA-China, Japan, Korea

A study of lighting energy consumption model for office buildings

Xiaoxin Ren, Da Yan, Xin Zhou

Abstract: The paper focuses on a survey of several single offices in office buildings, where occupants’ movement, light-control behavior, lighting energy consumption and indoor illumination are measured. It reveals the key factors of lighting energy consumption in office buildings like the illuminance level, occupancy patterns and occupant behaviors, and how the factors work. The quantitative model of a typical person by moving and control behaviors is set out on the base of the analysis result of the survey. When it is expanded to more occupants, the different characteristics of lighting energy consumption among different scales office buildings due to the crowding effect can be simulated, which means that more occupants in the office (building) will result in a more regular schedule, a longer light open time and less influence by different behaviors.
Pages: 149 - 156
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