When buildings don't perform as specified, occupants are often blamed for failing to change habits. According to Lester Shen, this is the wrong way to think about building efficiency. Shen challenges us to reframe our approach to high performance building via the concept of Human Building Interaction (HBI). HBI reveals assumptions, habits, and constraints that govern our relationship to buildings, and instead of forcing occupants to change, leverages existing behaviors to achieve performance objectives.

1. March 5, 2014
HUMAN BUILDING INTERACTION
Solving the Occupant Problem
Lester Shen
Director of Innovative Technologies

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3. Learning Objectives
From this session, attendees will learn:
• What does Human Building Interaction (HBI) mean,
• What is design thinking, and
• How we can use both to design new ways that our
interactions with buildings can use less energy.
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98. Lester Shen
lshen@mncee.org
612-335-5883
Questions?
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