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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