Mobile Laboratory for Monitoring and Analysis of the Indoor Environment of Buildings

MIEQLab – Mobile Laboratory for Monitoring and Analysis of the Indoor Environment of Buildings (FCE CTU) – Designing technical solutions that would secure a stable and balanced indoor environment favourable both for movable/immovable heritage and human users/visitors poses serious challenges. To address these tasks, the MIEQLab utilizes its unique equipment for comprehensive monitoring of individual components of the indoor environment – thermal comfort, indoor air quality including ions, acoustic and light microclimate, electromagnetic fields and psychological microclimate. The instrumentally measured data and subjective inhabitant data obtained from questionnaires are processed and evaluated by the laboratory’s own certified methodology, the output of which provides a holistic view of the state of the indoor environment in the assessed space and indicates problematic locations. The laboratory operates instrumentation for long-term in situ monitoring with remote access or data loggers as well as mobile devices for short-term measurements of air temperature, resulting temperature, relative humidity, air flow velocity, surface temperatures, the air quality in terms of aerosols, particles, gaseous pollutants and ions. Furthermore, the laboratory is equipped with a sound level meter for surveying the acoustic microclimate, a mobile application for infrasound detection and a top-notch spectrometer for light microclimate analysis. The equipment for analysis and medium-term monitoring of electromagnetic fields in a wide range of  frequencies is unique.