Simulating the Impact of Occupants on Office Building Design Process: A Case Study
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Abstract
Emerging evidence suggests that occupants play a significant role and contribute uncertainty to building energy performance, yet they are modelled using simple schedules that may not reflect reality. This paper examines the impact of occupant-related assumptions on the building simulation-based design process. Thirteen variants of the model of a real office building model were generated representing 13 occupant scenarios. Each occupant scenario was simulated with 32 different design alternatives. The design alternatives were ranked based on their energy performance. The results indicate that the ranking of about one-third of the 32 design features is significantly affected by occupant-related assumptions. The design decisions regarding window materials and ventilation mode are the most sensitive to occupant-related assumptions.
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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
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 |
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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.
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