User Behavior and Energy Consumption in Apartment Complex Bergstrasse
Examination and Verification of the Consumer-Behavior in the Apartment Complex Bergstrasse, Graz / Competition Austrian Prize for Domestic Architecture 1991
The document was published as part of the ninth symposium on thermic solarenergies at the monastery at Banz in Germany. The publication’s topic is the study Dr. Lari performed regarding the user-behavior in terms of energy consumption in the settlement in Graz, Plabutsch . The objective of this project was to be able to determine the effects the users’ behavior has on the level of energy consumed. Some of the factors that can influence the consumption of energy and which are used as factors for measurements are; ventilation, number of people in the household and when they are there, utilization of the fins and curtains by the windows, thermal loads, average temperature in the building, and the level the temperature sinks down to during the night and how long it takes to reach the desired temperature again the next day.
The evaluation follows in several phases which consist of measurements of the heating systems, as well as documentation of the residents’ consumption behavior. The research project is supported by several cooperation partners and the University of Technology of Graz functions as scientific support. The aim of the research project is to develop strategies for saving energy by means of consumer-behavior in low-energy houses and also to discover possibilities of saving energy which are independent of the consumerbehavior.
Lecture PDF (german)