Having completed a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Economics and a Master’s degree in Economic Analysis and Policy, specialising in Public Decision Modelling, I have chosen to specialise in research, particularly in the humanities and social sciences.
This thesis, funded by the André project, focuses on the ‘Modelling of energy consumption behaviour in residential buildings’ and is supervised by Professor Jean-Pierre Levy.
Our approach is situated within the context of the energy transition. Indeed, environmental issues such as air pollution, global warming and the depletion of fossil fuel resources are at the heart of major contemporary debates. The energy transition is therefore necessary to reduce the effects of consumption, the real-world impacts of which are devastating on a global scale.
It is within this framework that the building sector emerges as a major driver of energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. This research project therefore aims to model the energy consumption behaviour of residential buildings following a renovation project. The study of residential buildings’ energy behaviour remains both poorly understood and underestimated in models. This difficulty stems from two obstacles: a lack of usable data on households’ actual consumption; and the complexity of conducting surveys on their domestic energy behaviour. The aim is to study, analyse and dynamically model the behaviour of residential buildings, taking into account the interactions between space, household and consumption. It will focus on the impact of the dynamics of household energy behaviour on the building’s final energy consumption.
A survey will be conducted before and after renovation among 62 households living in Noisiel. It will enable the collection of households’ socio-demographic data, household characteristics and, above all, household behaviour. The data from these surveys and that from the sensors installed as part of the André project will be analysed using various statistical models.
