Monitoring vertical displacements of an engineering object with masonry walls

The paper presents a method for conducting measurements and processing the results that makes it possible to determine the vertical displacements of measurement and control network points stabilized outside and inside a building in which changes in the form of scratches and cracks on the external and internal walls were noticed. These changes were so disturbing that a number of technical opinions were issued on the technical condition of the building, the ground and water conditions as well as the location of other buildings in relation to that object. The measurement methodology is generally known, but the problem of correctly defining a reference system and estimating the values of vertical displacements still remains to be solved. Moreover, the paper presents the characteristics of the object subjected to research, its technical condition in 2006 and in 2015 as well as an analysis of the impact of a heating duct on the behaviour of the building.