Dr. András Reith attended the IEA-EBC Annex 66 3rd expert meeting on occupant behavior, hosted by Professor Ardeshir Mahdavi, Department of Building Physics and Building Ecology at TU Wien, Vienna, Austria.
The three-day meeting took place from March 30 to April 1, 2016. More than 60 participants from 22 countries (namely, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italia, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, and USA) attended the meeting. The first day of the meeting was allocated to an International Symposium on People’s Behavior in Buildings, with 3 keynote speakers in the morning and two PhD presentation sessions in the afternoon. Altogether, 16 doctoral students presented the latest result of their occupancy-related research work. In the following two days, Annex 66 participants reported on the progress of activities within Subtasks A to E. Panel discussions, structured sub-task breakout sessions, working lunch meetings, and informal encounters provided ample opportunities to discuss progress to-date and project future steps. The meeting benefited from the prevailing good weather and the rich backdrop of the historical city of Vienna. (by Ardeshir Mahdavi)
