Quantifying Human-Activity Energy Contributions for Sustainable Campus Building Design

Zulkarnain Marzuki (Soegijapranata Catholic University)
Ridwan Sanjaya (Soegijapranata Catholic University)
Antonius Ardiyanto (Soegijapranata Catholic University)

Advance Sustainable Science, Engineering and Technology (ASSET)
Vol. 8 No. 4 (2026): August-October

The movement of students in the corridors and on the staircases generates electric power from each step. In order to analyze this possibility of energy generation, researchers conducted a study over five working days at the busiest locations. Researchers examined the time and the number of people present, temperature, light, CO2 levels and the total number of steps using mobile phones every five minutes. The results reveal that walking and climbing generate about 0.053kWh/week, which is less than 0.01% of total energy consumption of the building (2877kWh/week) and that walking brings additional heat amounting to 80-100W/person during periods of activity. Even though the impact of activity is utterly trivial in respect to the electricity produced by the student flow, the new approach improves building energy models.