Standard or body
ASHRAE
Also: ASHRAE 62.1, ASHRAE 55
The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, whose standards 62.1 and 62.2 (ventilation for acceptable indoor air quality) and 55 (thermal comfort) are the most widely adopted engineering benchmarks for buildings worldwide.
Why it matters indoors
ASHRAE standards set minimum outdoor-air rates per person and per floor area, filtration classes, and comfort ranges; they are written into building codes across North America and used by reference in the Gulf states and Asia. Standard 241 (2023) added a control-of-infectious-aerosols target after the pandemic. ASHRAE does not set pollutant concentration limits — it specifies the ventilation that should keep them acceptable.
In the literature
- Multi-pollutant indoor air quality, ventilation, and cognitive status among nursing home residents with dementia: a pilot cross-sectional environmental assessment in Oklahoma, USA (2026). doi:10.55092/ijee20260012 CKB 1046
- Jia Quantifying crowding-ventilation effect on respiratory infections (2026). Nat Commun. doi:10.1038/s41467-026-73470-w CKB 1235
- Determination of indoor air quality in collective living spaces utilizing Fuzzy logic analysis Ahmet Çoşgun (Main and Corresponding Author) (2020). Revista de la construcción. doi:10.7764/rdlc.19.3.288-300 CKB 0035
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Coridum Research. ASHRAE. Coridum Knowledge G-0086, 5 September 2026. https://coridum.com/k/G-0086/