Monitoring is one of the primary project management responses to the sustainability challenge and it helps understand the condition of systems and what we value as sustainable. Monitoring has focused on developing the tools necessary to gauge where we are relative to where we want to be.

 

Monitoring is a repetitive observation over time of selected objects and values in the building systems to determine the state of the entire system. In the context of sustainability, a monitoring program establishes a set of markers that help assess whether systems are being managed in a sustainable fashion. In addition to getting what you paid for and what was intended, and reducing project “redo” of systems and components not caught until the end of the project, more specifically, monitoring may be useful to: