Cognitive barriers during monitoring-based commissioning of buildings

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dc.contributor.authorHarris, Noraen
dc.contributor.authorShealy, Trippen
dc.contributor.authorParrish, Kristenen
dc.contributor.authorGranderson, Jessicaen
dc.contributor.departmentCivil and Environmental Engineeringen
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-15T12:47:35Zen
dc.date.available2019-08-15T12:47:35Zen
dc.date.issued2019-04en
dc.description.abstractMonitoring-based commissioning (MBCx) is a continuous building energy management process used to optimize energy performance in buildings. Although monitoring-based commissioning (MBCx) can reduce energy waste by up to 20%, many buildings still underperform due to issues such as unnoticed system faults and inefficient operational procedures. While there are technical barriers that impede the MBCx process, such as data quality, the focuses of this paper are the non-technical, behavioral and organizational, barriers that contribute to issues initiating and implementing MBCx. In particular, this paper discusses cognitive biases, which can lead to suboptimal outcomes in energy efficiency decisions, resulting in missed opportunities for energy savings. This paper provides evidence of cognitive biases in decisions during the MBCx process using qualitative data from over 40 public and private sector organizations. The results describe barriers resulting from cognitive biases, listed in descending order of occurrence, including: risk aversion, social norms, choice overload, status quo bias, information overload, professional bias, and temporal discounting. Building practitioners can use these results to better understand potential cognitive biases, in turn allowing them to establish best practices and make more informed decisions. Researchers can use these results to empirically test specific decision interventions and facilitate more energy efficient decisions.en
dc.description.notesPublic domain – authored by a U.S. government employeeen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2018.12.017en
dc.identifier.eissn2210-6715en
dc.identifier.issn2210-6707en
dc.identifier.otherUNSP 101389en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/93141en
dc.identifier.volume46en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedicationen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/en
dc.subjectMonitoring-based commissioningen
dc.subjectEnergy management and information systemsen
dc.subjectCognitive biasesen
dc.subjectBehavioral decision scienceen
dc.subjectRisk aversionen
dc.titleCognitive barriers during monitoring-based commissioning of buildingsen
dc.title.serialSustainable Cities And Societyen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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