The results from the extensive POE have demonstrated that even using the adaptive comfort criteria , the concrete formwork system demands the use of mechanical ventilation around 50 % of the time ( in both warm and cold seasons ) in order to provide suitable indoor thermal comfort conditions .
The wide applicability , engineering advantages , and significant financial and socioeconomic benefits derived from MIHP mean that this approach is highly likely to continue and expand in the future . In this context , it is essential that designers , developers and decision-makers implement common sense practices to overcome easily avoidable problems , especially during the early stages of the design process . The current paper provides a clear picture of the overall thermal behaviour of the studied industrialised building system and can function as an indication of the weaknesses of such systems to designers , researchers , and other stakeholders to the further development of MIHP .
More generally , and with regard to the general discipline of environmental design research , the 4D visualisation exercise contributed to a better understanding of the data , especially with regard to comparing different buildings . It also highlighted the potential of novel presentation methods to communicate the results to non-expert stakeholders . The importance of POE surveys can be realised by the wider community only if the logging output is easily understood and not viewed as the domain of the specialist . The integration of such datasets in the wider context of Building Information Modelling can enhance this further and allow the whole life-cycle monitoring of buildings to become a routine part of the design process .
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank Grupo Herso for providing the monitoring equipment for this study . This research project was funded by the National Council for Science and Technology ( CONACYT ) of Mexico . The developer of the case study was not involved in the writing of this paper .
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