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IEQ APPLICATIONS
Column
Assessing Continuous
IEQ Monitor Usability In
Commercial Real Estate
LANE W. BURT, P.E.; CHARLENE W. BAYER, PH.D., FELLOW/LIFE MEMBER ASHRAE
The global pandemic and multiple wildfire seasons may have turned the average
employee into an " armchair expert " on ventilation, filtration, droplets and particulates,
putting additional pressure on building managers and owners to understand
and communicate about their building's indoor environmental quality (IEQ). A
collaboration created an evaluation model whose goal was to determine if IEQ monitoring
in the occupied space and air quality monitoring in moving air in ducts would
enable commercial building-wide IEQ monitoring.
The model intends to provide consumers with realworld
performance assessments of continuously monitoring
IEQ measurement devices, helping guide how
IEQ monitors can and cannot be used in offices and
buildings.
Research Approach
The approach was to focus on distinct testing " gates. "
These included applicability, practicality, plausibility
and accuracy (within the confines of the experimental
design). Each " gate " was evaluated via baseline ambient
monitoring (over a six-week time period) and challenge
testing.
Applicability was defined as the deployment of a particular
device for use under the desired use conditions.
Practicality was assessed by the ease of installation and
integration with the building automation/building
management systems (BAS or BMS) and operation and
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maintenance with a minimum of training required for
the facility managers.
Plausibility was defined as the ability of the device to
confirm what was known to be occurring within the
testing environment.
Accuracy was loosely defined and determined. Absolute
accuracy was not definable within the experimental
design due to the design of the test rig and room, and
since each tested device had different averaging time
frame and firmware calculation parameters. The generated
data from each of the individual devices were
compared to each other, determining generated outlier
data. As designed experimentally, absolute accuracy was
less important than similarity of results among the various
devices. Field-installed, real-time measurements
Lane W. Burt, P.E. is the managing principal of Ember Strategies in San Francisco.
Charlene W. Bayer, Ph.D., is the founder of Hygieia Sciences in Marietta, Ga. Both are
part of the IEQ Proving Grounds collaborative.

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