lighting schedule for school

I do not know of a document but this should not be very hard to explain. How many hours/year is the facility open with the lights on? Sounds like the reviewer is indicating that the hours of run time for the lighting is lower than they would expect given the typical operating hours of such a facility. If there is an explanation for why the run hours are low then provide that, if you don't have an explanation then it sounds like you should check the lighting schedules to make sure you are accurately reflecting the operation of the facility.

A pro, pro...the most important thing is that the schedules are the same for both baseline and proposed models...but since I'm getting into mimicking of user behavour through simulation, a statistic of how much users switch lights on and off would be interesting. Some simulation programs (EQUA's IDA ICE) can incorporate Lightswitch-2002 (Reinhart, 2004), which models this probalistic nature. I know you use energyplus. You can achieve similar user based control if you consicer some of the options in the lighting controls, but you need to implement daylighting controls to mimick this and consider the probability of changing state events ontop of regular glare and light level control. Alternatively, you could implement EMS or eplus now also has Functional Mock-Up Interface (FMI) interface, which allows it to bind in external programs (also check out PyFMI is based on FMI Library, see http://www.jmodelica.org/FMILibrary). As far as I'm aware e+ will be developing more sophisticated user mimicking in the future, starting with window ventilation and lighting. *http://archive.iea-shc.org/publications/downloads/task31-Lightswitch-2002.pdf IMO as long as the control settings are the same for both baseline and proposed models, this kind of lighting should be more than acceptable.

Just keep in mind that savings cannot be claimed for manual controls. As long as the schedules are the same it should be fine.