1 Introduction 1��1 Motivations 1��2 Objectives 1��3 Work outline 2 Structure health monitoring in urban areas-state of the art and current practice 2��1 Structure health monitoring methods in civil engineering 2��2 Environmental factors to be considered in SHM 2��3 Current practice in building monitoring during underground works 3 Modeling the behavior of buildings and monitoring systems when subjected to thermal effects 3��1 Conceptual model 3��2 Implementation of the conceptual model 3��3 Modeling the movements of building subjected to external actions 3��4 Least square adjustment by indirect observation equations 4 Experimental work test area Campus Nord UPC 4��1 Area selection process 4��2 Overall design of the systems and sensors 4��3 Systems and sensors installation 4��4 Data acquisition processes 4��5 Data continuity/availability of final filtered data 5 Matching the model with real world results 5��1 Sensitivity analysis 5��2 Real monitoring results obtained with the standard system in the Campus Nord test area 5��3 Numerical simulation of the standard monitoring system-approach D 5��4 Comparing the real monitoring results with the simulated ones ��approach D�� 6 Formulation of the strategy to consider thermal effects in building monitoring 6��1 Introduction 6��2 Approach B 6��3 Approach K 6��4 Overview 7 Conclusions and future work 7��1 Conclusions 7��2 Future work References