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1) Identify the indoor air pollutant related IAQ hurdles of the building industry.This research will examine the following hurdles of the building industry:a) Identify the indoor air pollutant threats for the buildings and the occupantsb) Identify the problems regarding the current indoor air quality technologiesin commercial buildings.2) Evaluate the types of IAQ options to control indoor air quality and the factors thateffect IAQ in commercial buildings.This step of the research ensures that the model to be created will include a solution bytaking all the factors affecting IAQ into account. This research will also determine thealternative technologies, thus those alternatives will be evaluated in the basis of the finalmodel. The comparison with the feasible region in the model will enable the researcher tomake suggestions towards systems that may not exist but would be a better option thanany existing systems. The types of indoor air quality control options will be generated interms of:a) Improved Ventilationb) Air Cleaningc) Contaminant Source ManagementResearch will include the national ASHRAE standards for acceptable indoor ventilationas a lower constraint assuming that all buildings are mandated to meet at least thesestandards.3) Evaluate the true costs of indoor air quality control techniques by combining LCCanalysis and soft costs.Using the combination of life cycle costs, other hard costs, and soft costs will generatethe true costs of indoor air quality control. From an engineering perspective, LCC are allcosts from project inception to disposal of equipment. The LCC analysis will include theownership and operating costs. The common value engineering methodology will befollowed for the calculations. The required data to build the cost analysis will be obtainedby several financial studies conducted by EPA such as “A Preliminary Methodology forEvaluating Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Indoor Air Quality Approaches” byHenschel, and the actual supplier quotes for the system components. The analysis willinclude determination of soft costs and hard costs. This research will only use theavailable research that use the amount of outdoor air and pollution as the independentvariables in a controlled office environment, in order to determine the function betweenIAQ and productivity. A couple of these studies are mentioned in the literature review.The costs associated with health and litigation may be kept out of the model due to theirpossible stochastic nature.
4) Combine the true costs, guidelines, and the function analysis to define andgenerate a decision model.The methodology for the model will follow the following five-step procedure(Winston, 1993):a) Formulate the ProblemDefining the problem includes specifying the objectives and the parts of thesystem that must be studied before the problem can be solved. In this researchthe objective would either be to minimize the true costs of an IAQ controloption or maximizing the cost-effectiveness of IAQ control options.b) Observe the SystemIn this phase the research will be oriented towards the collection of data thatwould affect the problem determined in the previous section. The data to becollected includes: how much an increase in productivity save the owner incosts; how much an increase in the supplied air amount would increaseproductivity; how much hard costs are associated with a unit increase in theamount of air or the treatment of the air; how much energy cost occurs by the anincrease in the unit of outdoor air supply or recirculation air.c) Formulate a Mathematical Model of the ProblemIn this phase a mathematical model of the problem will be developed. Thismodel will include:- Decision Variables- Objective Function- ConstraintsSome of potential decision variables could be as follows:X1 = Amount of outdoor air suppliedX2 = Amount of air cleanedThe objective function could be configured as follows:Min z = C1X1+C2X2+…..CnXn (Minimize true costs)Max z = ∆ (cost) / ∆ (exposure) (Cost effectiveness)The potential constraints are not limited to:ASHRAE Constraint (Minimum outdoor air)Productivity Constraint (Maximum productivity)Ventilation Constraint (Maximum energy for conditioning OA)Equipment Constraint (Maximum amount of air can be cleaned)This phase will also include the sensitivity analysis in order to determine therange of optimality for the model. This will include the determining the values forthe shadow prices and the reduced costs to present the range of optimality. Figure3 represents a basic example for how the model would be structured.
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