Energy performance assessment of adaptive transparent building envelope through test-cells and in-field monitoring

Adaptive building envelope will probably constitute the future for new building belonging to the Nearly Zero Energy Buildings typology. These innovative façade concepts are almost “self-sufficient” building skins that show a dynamic behavior and incorporate different technologies, requiring different approaches for what concern their energy performance assessment. In this paper the attention is posed on adaptive transparent building envelope. Some case studies are described and the methodology to evaluate the energy behavior is discussed. Furthermore a review of the testing facilities and of the main potential and criticism in the measurement process, is reported.