An epistemic indoor air quality assessment protocol for air-conditioned offices

An epistemic approach for assessing an acceptable office IAQ against certain indoor air pollutant exposure limits is proposed for that study. Thanks to the prior understanding of failure rates of IAQ determimed from a number of extensive survey studies, a sample test result of pollutant levels has been quantified along with the uncertainties of different sampling schemes and the probability of satisfactory IAQ for an assessed air-conditioned office. The accuracy of the failure rates has been improved by the application of sampling correction factors and Bayesian statistics.