The paper examines the implications of innovative equipments-used for condition measurement in preventive monitoring purposes-over the design requirements of new buildings and in the re-adaptation criteria of existing ones. The underlying concept is that a progressive, successful implementation of instruments for maintenance-purpose condition monitoring relies - among the others - on a set of architectural/building design-oriented specifications. Within this framework, the state-of-the-art of monitoring/diagnosis equipment in building industry is analysed from the designer's point of view: the degree of compatibility between monitoring intruments and building components varies from the traditional “impact” (static equipment, “brought to” the site) to a closer integration (dynamic equipment, “built in”). Therefore, the architect's perceptions of equipment and monitoring instruments implementation into the building components need to be evaluated, using a specific set of “adaptability“/“compatibility” requirements. With a regard to future innovations, design criteria must consider technology transfer of monitoring tools form other industrial sectors to the building industry, moving towards the implementation of micro-sensors, remote transmission and control of testing results and global automation, both in the inspection techniques and in time-consuming data interpretation.
The "architectural impact" of condition monitoring equipment in design/re-adaptation of building components for preventive maintenance purposes
DI GIULIO, Roberto;
1996
Abstract
The paper examines the implications of innovative equipments-used for condition measurement in preventive monitoring purposes-over the design requirements of new buildings and in the re-adaptation criteria of existing ones. The underlying concept is that a progressive, successful implementation of instruments for maintenance-purpose condition monitoring relies - among the others - on a set of architectural/building design-oriented specifications. Within this framework, the state-of-the-art of monitoring/diagnosis equipment in building industry is analysed from the designer's point of view: the degree of compatibility between monitoring intruments and building components varies from the traditional “impact” (static equipment, “brought to” the site) to a closer integration (dynamic equipment, “built in”). Therefore, the architect's perceptions of equipment and monitoring instruments implementation into the building components need to be evaluated, using a specific set of “adaptability“/“compatibility” requirements. With a regard to future innovations, design criteria must consider technology transfer of monitoring tools form other industrial sectors to the building industry, moving towards the implementation of micro-sensors, remote transmission and control of testing results and global automation, both in the inspection techniques and in time-consuming data interpretation.I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
