SPECIAL SESSION #08

Gloria Cosoli

eCampus University

• gloria.cosoli@uniecampus.it

Marco Arnesano

eCampus University

• marco.arnesano@uniecampus.it

Silvia Angela Mansi

University of Pavia, Italy

• silviaangela.mansi@unipv.it

The built environment is currently facing the need of addressing the European Union’s mandate for a “Dual transition”, being at the same time “Green” and “Digital”. Deep changes are required to achieve net-zero emission targets as well as circular economy objectives, considering the construction process as a whole, starting with design, continuing with the construction (or demolition) phase monitoring, until the end of life management. In this context, metrology can really play a pivotal role, aiming at providing accurate, reliable, and traceable data supporting the validation of the strategies for sustainable construction.

Indeed, nowadays the construction sector is often relying on sparse data and static models, not updated with the effective changes of the work site. However, the integration of advanced sensing technologies, IoT ecosystems, and Digital Twins can enable a dynamic depiction of the scenario. This Special Session focuses on how innovative measurement strategies and data-driven digitalization for a dual purpose: i) Improving environmental and operational efficiency of the built environment, reducing energy consumption, carbon footprint, and waste production; ii) Developing human-centric solutions for indoor comfort to enhance the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) as well as the perceived well-being (considering different domains: thermal, acoustic, visual, and air quality).

This Special Session aims to promote the latest research contributions in this research field. Original papers are invited to be submitted describing innovative measurement approaches benefitting also from sensor fusion techniques and AI-enhanced data analytics. Particular attention will be paid to the analysis of measurement uncertainty in smart sensing solutions and to the validation of digital tools deployed in real-word construction, demolition, and renovation scenarios.

Topics of interest include but are not restricted to:

• Multi-sensor advanced metrology for IEQ;
• Human-centric solutions based on wearable and non-invasive sensing technologies;
• Personalized comfort assessment;
• High-granularity energy monitoring in the built environment;
• From measurement results to digital solutions;
• AI and metrology for building management optimization;
• Assessment of measurement uncertainty in low-cost IoT-based sensor networks;
• Integrated sensing to leverage BIM for data visualization and lifecycle assessment;
• Robotics and automated solutions for construction: work site monitoring, progress tracking, and environmental surveying.

Gloria Cosoli received the B.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering (with honors) and the M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering (with honors) from Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM), Ancona, Italy, in 2011 and 2013, respectively. She received the Ph. D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the same university in 2017 with a thesis titled “Study and Development of a Novel Radio Frequency Electromedical Device for the Treatment of Peri-Implantitis: Experimental Performance Analysis, Modelling of the Electromagnetic Interaction with Tissues and In Vitro and In Vivo Evaluation”. From 2023 to 2025, she was a research collaborator at DIISM; since May 2024, she has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences (DiSTA) of eCampus University, Novedrate, Italy. She is the author of 40 articles, 54 conference proceedings, and two national patents. Her research interests include non-invasive physiological measurements, numerical modeling, mechanical measurements, signal processing, and NDT. Prof. Cosoli received the IEEE MeMeA 2015 Best Poster Award and the IEEE MetroLivEnv 2023 Best Paper Award.

Marco Arnesano PhD in Mechanical and Thermal Measurements from Università Politecnica delle Marche, he is Full Professor and Director of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences (DiSTA) at eCampus University, Italy. His research focuses on developing innovative measurement systems for living environments: indoor environmental monitoring and control through embedded and IoT sensors, wearable sensors, physiological measurements, signal processing, data analysis, and machine learning. Research activities are conducted within European and National projects as scientific responsible and principal investigator. He is the author of more than 80 peer-reviewed scientific publications for international journals and conference proceedings.

Silvia Angela Mansi PhD in Applied Sciences for Well-being and Sustainability from Università Telematica e-Campus, Italy, is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pavia. Her research focuses on electroencephalography and wearable sensing, with particular emphasis on physiological measurements, thermal comfort, and well-being in indoor environments. Her work also spans cognitive neuroscience, integrating EEG and behavioural tasks to investigate cognitive control, numerical cognition, language processing, and distributed semantics. She is the author of several peer-reviewed scientific publications in international journals and conference proceedings.