Monitoring campaign

The design and construction of the building are the most interesting aspects of the design project. Once the building is finished, the designer delivers it to the end users, the inhabitants, who are the ones able to verify whether or not the intentions of the design—low energy consumption and comfort—have been fulfilled. Following the approach of Lord Kelvin “if you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it”, with the aim of improving the skills of the designer and of the construction companies, together with the owner, it was decided to install a system of monitoring during the construction, to assess and measure the performance of what had been built. The monitoring campaign concerns the building envelope (roof slab and vertical wall) and the indoor microclimate of a room. In this chapter, we present the content and results of the monitoring campaign.