本研究调查了居住假设对澳大利亚办公建筑设计阶段模拟能源性能准确性的影响。本文的第一部分将介绍作者对澳大利亚有限数量办公楼的入住率调查结果。论文的第二部分利用入住率调查的数据，量化了使用基于调查的一系列入住率值预测的建筑物能源性能与使用澳大利亚国家建筑环境评级系统（NABERS）入住率假设的相同建筑模型预测的能源性能之间的差异。这项研究的目的是确定使用NABERS假设是否会导致建模能源性能的显著失真。 引文:伊利诺伊州芝加哥ASHRAE会议论文

This study investigates the impact of occupancy assumptions on the accuracy of simulated energy performance of Australian office buildings in the design stage. The first part of this paper will present the results of occupancy surveys of a limited number of Australian office buildings performedby the author.The second part of the paper utilises the data from the occupancy surveys to quantify the difference between the predicted energy performance of buildings using a range of values for occupancy based on the surveys and the predicted energy performance of the same building models using the National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) occupancy assumptions. The study aims to determine if use of the NABERS assumptions causes significant distortions in modelled energy performance.