Takeaways and planning#

It’s useful to gather the survey photos for the building profile if you can - at least anything you are uncertain about or that you can’t easily describe in text. You will need to determine how you will collect them together to put them on your cloud storage.

For the next session, you’ll also need either the actual diary showing who is in the spaces for a period where you have collected thermal monitoring data, or a diary that shows typical building use over the course of week. If it’s useful, you can use this template for that. We intend to mark up the temperature plots automatically with times a space is in use for those who use the template, but this doesn’t work yet.

It’s helpful if you can pass the engineer this information ahead of session 3. If you haven’t done it already, you will also need to find out the timings for the heating system.

If no better source of information exists, it would be helpful if the engineer could use the photographs to produce a brief report about the building documenting what the group thought was important. The group leader may be able to list other sources of information to avoid duplication, like whether there are manuals for equipment, a heating system diagram, or technical desscription of the building available. This is useful both for memory and for engaging professionals later. You can share the report with us - ask us to set up space on our Google Drive if you need that for storing what you have.