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College Occupancy Schedules

asked Apr 18

IanVG's avatar

updated Apr 18

Has anyone ever created any occupancy schedules for college buildings? I see that the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has some basic studies on occupancy rates for different college space types, but other than the paper here, titled Occupancy Schedule Development and its Effect on OpenStudio Prototype College Building Model, (which can be found on the ORNL page here), I have not been able to find much. Queries on UnmetHours were also met with no luck.

From the paper I mentioned, I created a few college space occupancy types, but because the paper was not specific enough, I was only able to create rough-ish occupancy schedules for:

  • Schedules based on Occupancy Schedules from OpenStudio Prototype Secondary School Building Model:
    • Generic College Rooms (which ORNL refers can be used for conference rooms and entrance lobbies)
    • College Offices
    • College Lounges and/or Cafes (based on cafeteria schedule from secondary school)
  • Schedules based on Actual Classroom Reservation Schedules:
    • College Art Classrooms
    • College Classrooms
    • College Laboratories
    • College Lecture Halls

I saved this in a basic .cvs format on a GitHub repository, that can be found here. They include a Cooling Design schedule section, which I added because I use Trace 3D Plus.

Edit: I have also sent an email to ORNL to see if they had an .idf file or some data from this project that could be shared.

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answered Apr 21

IanVG's avatar

updated Apr 21

I received a reply from the ORNL researchers with the .idf and .osm file.

The references for this work can be found here: Bae, Y., Yoon, Y., Jung, S., Malhotra, M., & Im, P. (2024). Occupancy Schedule Development and its Effect on OpenStudio Prototype College Building Model, Science and Technology for the Built Environment, 1-15. Bae, Y., Yoon, Y, Jung, S., Malhotra, M., & Im, P. (2022). Development of an Occupancy Schedule for OpenStudio Prototype College Building Model. 2022 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild, 13-16 Sept., Chicago., IL. ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA

Edit: Cannot upload the .idf or .osm file, but if anyone wants them please let me know :-). I tried looking on the OpenStudio Standards GitHub, but I could not find a matching file (could be totally wrong!).

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