THERMAL BEHAVIOR AND ENERGY USE HABITS OF RESIDENTS IN DIFFERENT CLIMATIC REGIONS OF TURKEY: IMPACTS ON BUILDING ENERGY CONSUMPTION

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Being in comfort thermally which is the most basic need in a built environment, is an important issue that pushes the occupants to interact with the built environment and encourages energy behavior, but also includes many factors that cause this behavior to diversify. This interaction is bidirectional, that is, occupants do not only affect but are also affected. This relation was conducted with a holistic literature review and field surveys but with limitations. Due to its complex structure, the factors were limited to the socio-economic and climate diversity of Turkey. The issue of energy use was evaluated in a cause-effect manner, supported by inferential statistical analyses. The residential building has been accepted as an indirect factor representing the socio-economic and climatic region of the occupants, and its thermos-physical quality has been obtained with the knowledge of the respondents in order to measure the energy behavior patterns and to evaluate the climatic thermal comfort preferences. Rather than examining the house structurally, diversifying the occupants within the context of this study's acceptances become a much more important issue. Since it provides a permanent physical environment as a housing structure, the dormitory building was selected to constitute the sample group of the study. It enabled to access a large number and variety of occupants in a single structure. In order to gather data a comprehensive field survey (questionnaire and self-report surveys) was conducted amongst university students residing in dormitories located in İstanbul, Ankara, Kars, Sivas, İzmir, and Balıkesir cities in Turkey and built after year 2009, during the time period covering the heating period. In addition, climatic parameters (temperature, humidity, mean radiant temperature and CO2) and occupant behavior patterns (window open/close state and occupant presence) were recorded by data loggers synchronously with self-report survey. This study contributed statistically to reveal the bidirectional interaction of the occupants with the built thermal environment regarding energy use manner with the context of thermal preferences diversified according to socio-economic factors and climate regions in Turkey, and contributed to keeping future studies with the obtained data.

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Thermal comfort,, occupants’ behavior,, energy consumption, climate regions, Turkey

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Ö. Taner Düzyol, “THERMAL BEHAVIOR AND ENERGY USE HABITS OF RESIDENTS IN DIFFERENT CLIMATIC REGIONS OF TURKEY: IMPACTS ON BUILDING ENERGY CONSUMPTION,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2023.