🚨New paper published by members of the Thrive IAQ team including: Dr Henry Oswin, Mr Lucien GLACHANT, Ms Savinda Heshani, Ms Behnaz Alinaghipour, Ms Saima Bakht khan, and Prof Lidia Morawska.
This paper titled, “Using Indoor CO2 Concentration Thresholds to Understand and Improve the Air Quality of Public Buildings: A Practical Approach”, published in Energy and Buildings, aimed to develop a simple approach to tracking CO2 concentrations within a variety of indoor spaces, relating this to the number of occupants within the space, and then using the data to provide recommendations, improving the air quality within the space.
Highlights from the paper include:
👉 Indoor CO2 thresholds provide clear identification of poorly ventilated spaces.
👉 Occupancy monitoring is key to understanding CO2 data.
👉 CO2 based occupancy thresholds can improve indoor air quality.
👉 Maximum occupancy densities can be used to directly compare different spaces.
👉 Such datasets can be used to quickly identify future ventilation faults.
Read the paper🔗: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2025.116254
Australian Research Council (ARC), QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
