Experimental Investigation of Indoor Air Quality in an Open Office Environment

Open offices, where more than one person works, have been used frequently in recent years. However, there are many studies on the efficiency of the indoor air quality of the employees in these offices. It has also been shown that the risk of cross-contamination is higher in such offices during the COVID period, but this risk can be reduced by increasing the amount of fresh air. For both efficiency and a healthy working environment, an experimental investigation of indoor air quality (IAQ) according to scenarios was carried out experimentally with the living laboratory created in the R&D center. Working together with 8 engineers in the open office environment investigation was measured with an indoor air quality measuring device at different points throughout the day. With these measurements, both the comfort of the employees was compared and the possible improvements to be made in the devices in order to increase the indoor air quality were examined. According to the results obtained, it was found that suitable conditions in terms of thermal comfort are provided during working hours and the CO2 level is generally kept below 1000 ppm.