The study has its origins in the Sustainable Energy in Cities summer school held in Shanghai, China, in July 2015.
It statistically explores the effect of temporal and spatial randomness of stochastically generated occupancy schedules on a building’s energy performance.
It adopts a scalarized single-objective optimization to minimize heating and cooling energy needs.
It presents a quality assurance procedure for numerical models of buildings that cannot be calibrated using measured data.
Modeling of high-performance buildings requires a (spatially) detailed and (timely) precise description of occupancy and occupant-dependent input variables.