Occupancy Schedules

These schedules provide information about occupancy assumptions for different building types used during energy analysis.

Occupancy Schedules define the times at which the heating/cooling set point will be held.

These assumptions are based on ASHRAE standards. The other operating schedules for each building type (such as lighting and HVAC) are based on the occupancy schedules for that building type. See Building Type Data.

Tip: To manually change the occupancy number for analysis:

Place spaces in your model.
Set the Export Category in Energy Settings to Spaces.
Select each space in your model.
In the Properties palette under Energy Analysis, Modify the People parameter with the desired number and heat gain per person.
Run the energy analysis again to see the updated results.

For each occupancy schedule, the following tables provide hourly values for a 24-hour period, starting at midnight (0 to 24 on the x-axis). These values (0 to 1 on the y-axis) are fractional multipliers.

For example, if an occupancy density is 100 people in a building, then...

a schedule value of 1 means that 100 people are assumed to be in the building during that hour.
a schedule value of 0 means that no people are assumed to be in the building during that hour.
a value of 0.1 means that 100 * 0.1 = 10 people are assumed to be in the building during that hour.

Occupancy-Assembly

Assembly schedule on weekdays

Assembly schedule on Saturday

Assembly schedule on Sunday

Occupancy-Health

Health schedule on weekdays

Health schedule on Saturday

Health schedule on Sunday

Occupancy-Hotel/Motel

Hotel/motel schedule on weekdays

Hotel/motel schedule on Saturday

Hotel/motel schedule on Sunday

Occupancy-Office

Office schedule on weekdays

Office schedule on Saturday

Office schedule on Sunday

Occupancy-Residential

Residential schedule on weekdays

Residential schedule on Saturday

Residential schedule on Sunday

Occupancy-Restaurant

Restaurant schedule on weekdays

Restaurant schedule on Saturday

Restaurant schedule on Sunday

Occupancy-Retail

Retail schedule on weekdays

Retail schedule on Saturday

Retail schedule on Sunday

Occupancy-School

The following occupancy schedules apply to elementary through secondary schools (grades K-12) during open sessions on the following dates:

January 6, 1997–April 5, 1997
April 14, 1997–June 8, 1997
August 25, 1997–December 15, 1997

For the closed sessions of the school year, the occupancy multipliers are zero (0) for all hours of the day and all days of the week.

January 1, 1997–January 5, 1997
April 4, 1997–April 13, 1997
June 9, 1997–August 24, 1997
December 16, 1997–December 31, 1997

School schedule on weekdays

School schedule on Saturday

School schedule on Sunday

Occupancy-Warehouse

Warehouse schedule on weekdays

Warehouse schedule on Saturday

Warehouse schedule on Sunday