Motivation: In the current design practice, the Building Performance Simulations (BPS) makes generalisations about building operation to estimate energy demand. But occupant behaviour is one of the most fluctuating boundary conditions that has a significant influence on a building’s performance. A holistic solution to tackle the regularly expected variations in user-behaviour can be to design robust buildings. This, in turn, can reduce Performance Gap. Evaluating the robustness of a constructed building provides insights about the practical implications of its design and how it is operated; and support the theoretical studies of building performance robustness and robust optimization.
Keywords: Building performance robustness, user behaviour, occupant behaviour, uncertainty analysis, sensitivity analysis, post occupancy evaluation, performance gap