A Framework to Achieve Large Scale Energy Savings for Building Stocks through Targeted Occupancy Interventions

This chapter presents a framework that defines the relationship between occupants' energy use characteristics and the effectiveness of occupancy‐focused intervention strategies. This approach will lead to the design of cost‐effective and efficient energy policy tools for large‐scale energy savings in building stocks (e.g., university campus, community, and city). This framework will also help in encouraging pro‐environmental behavior for occupants in a stock of buildings and providing a more sustainable behavior pattern. This framework adopted MOA approach from the consumer and social marketing field to establish an analogy that enables occupancy‐focused intervention strategies to encourage the building occupants to adopt the desired energy use characteristics. To identify occupants' MOA level preexposure to occupancy‐focused interventions, an online survey was distributed to the occupants in the case study building. This survey includes 39 questions and focuses on evaluating occupants' control level on energy systems, office environment conditions, energy conservation motivation level, and energy conservation knowledge level.