Evaluating the Need and Potential of Equipping North American Houses with Multi-Zone VAV Systems
Bibliographic record
Abstract
To identify potential energy savings and improvements to thermal comfort in the Canadian residential sector, a survey on occupant behaviour and control of thermal environment was conducted from April-June 2009 in low-rise dwellings in Ontario, Canada. A total of 396 completed responses were received. Survey results show that approximately 20% of the respondents were not satisfied with their room temperature in the winter. Inadequate level of controllability to room temperature is perceived as the most serious problem. Problems associated with overheating during the winter and overcooling during the summer was also identified. Observations from the survey results helped identify the deficiencies of the heating equipments built today and suggest improvements should be made to increase the controllability of current systems. Thermal simulation was then conducted to identify the problems with single-zone systems commonly built today, and to investigate the potential retrofit alternative. Simulation results show that a multi-zone system can effectively mitigate the deficiencies suffered by existing systems and can drastically improve the energy performances of houses.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".