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Master Thesis An Investigation Into the Building Performance Impact of Occupant Behavior Through Energy Simulations(2023) İlal, Mustafa Emre; İlal, Mustafa Emre; 02.02. Department of Architecture; 02. Faculty of Architecture; 01. Izmir Institute of TechnologyThe building industry greatly impacts worldwide energy consumption. Residential energy use is significant, making it a key area for energy efficiency and environmental concerns. Building simulation tools are used to predict energy consumption. One shortcoming of simulations that are employed is that building occupants are assumed to behave uniformly. This study explores the potential of including variability of occupant behavior in building simulation models and its impact on the accuracy and reliability of simulation results. Actual consumption data and energy simulation results are used in tandem to investigate this topic. The first phase involved a seven-week monitoring program in a dormitory where each room was equipped with an independent air-conditioning unit. The goal was to record and analyze electricity consumption that included this heating system. The second phase of the study explored occupant behavior. Each room was simulated using schedules representing three different behavior patterns: frugal, standard, and wasteful. Finally, simulation results are compared with actual data. The margin of error in the DesignBuilder standard scenario varies between 4% and 38%, while the average margin of error is 16%. In the frugal scenario, occupants could save 30% to 70% of their energy, with an average savings of 50% possible. For the standard scenario, rooms offer an average saving potential of 16%, and in the wasteful scenario, only one room offers a saving potential of 13%. The results of the study underlines the need for considering the variability in occupant behavior in simulation models.Master Thesis Acoustic Design Based on Multi-Aspect Performance Analysis(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2013) Atça, Emre; İlal, Mustafa Emre; İlal, Mustafa Emre; 02.02. Department of Architecture; 02. Faculty of Architecture; 01. Izmir Institute of TechnologyIn current architectural practice, architects, due to time and budget constraints do not analyse their designs and evaluate alternatives from the building physics perspective. They expect this analysis to be carried out by engineers. Unfortunately, engineers mostly get involved late in the design process, after many key decisions are already finalized, leaving them powerless to solve problems employing efficient strategies. However, the rapid advances both in computing and engineering have produced various simulation based tools for evaluating building performance that architects themselves can employ in the early design stages. The proliferation of the utilization of these tools throughout the architectural practice and education is necessary for achieving higher performance levels in the built environment. In this study, the main Lecture Hall at Izmir Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics is diagnosed and documented through measurements and the possibility of predicting this existing level of performance through simulations during the design stage is explored. The brand new Lecture Hall is in urgent need of renovations, with additional costs, in order to improve acoustic, visual and thermal comfort in the space. Architects need to follow a performance based design approach where they consider performance criteria and utilize building simulation tools for design support in order to avoid problems that introduce costs later in the construction and operation of buildings.