Schools, homes and workplaces
Connect measurements to occupancy, exposure periods, building use and the specific claim or intervention being considered.
TA-14 AUTHORITY GOVERNANCE INSTITUTION · GLOBAL OPEN INITIATIVE
GOIAQG
Global Open
Indoor Air Quality
Governance.
From measuring the air to governing what happens next. Global Open Indoor Air Quality Governance (GOIAQG) is a TA-14 initiative under development connecting preserved environmental evidence, accountable decisions, authorized interventions and verified outcomes.
For researchers, building teams, educators, communities and public institutions worldwide. Explore a shared method, examine its limits, and contribute perspectives grounded in your own operating context.
EDUCATIONAL ARCHITECTURAL DEMONSTRATION · NO LIVE BUILDING CONTROL · NO REGULATORY OR INSTITUTIONAL ENDORSEMENT IMPLIED
↓ EXISTING INDOOR-AIR TECHNICAL REFERENCE v1.0 (PDF)
ONE METHOD · LOCAL CONTEXT
Global participation. Locally established authority.
Indoor-air decisions cross disciplines and borders. The initiative offers an open educational framework for examining those decisions; it does not impose one universal air-quality score, threshold or legal mandate.
Healthcare and sensitive environments
Examine interacting requirements, including ventilation, humidity and pressure relationships, with the responsible professionals.
Smoke events and community response
Consider indoor and outdoor conditions together, preserve changing evidence, and define who can authorize protective measures.
Different countries and resources
Adapt the examination to local law, climate, equipment, measurement capability and institutional responsibilities. Document evidence gaps rather than treating missing information as reassurance.
Open means public access to this guide and an invitation to scrutiny and contribution. It does not require disclosure of private building or occupant data, imply an open-source software licence, or establish adoption by any institution.
THE DISTINCTION
Monitoring is not governance.
A sensor reading may justify investigation. A dashboard may support understanding. Neither automatically creates admissible evidence or permission to change a building. Atmospheric Integrity Records (AIR) address preserved environmental chronology; Environmental Integrity Governance (EIG) examines how environmental evidence is used responsibly. TA-14 tests the boundary between a proposed action and an authorized consequence.
DATA → EVIDENCE FIT FOR A DECISION
Preserve the observation.
Examine the interpretation.
A reading is data. Admissible evidence is evidence shown to be fit for a specified decision within documented spatial, temporal and methodological limits. Provenance alone does not establish measurement accuracy. Record sensor suitability, calibration and quality checks, units, location, timestamps, operating conditions, coverage, missing intervals and uncertainty.
Atmospheric Integrity Records
Preserve original observations and context. Identify corrections, transformations and exclusions separately, with traceable versions. An interpretation must not overwrite the measurements it relies on.
Diagnosis and optimization
Keep diagnostic findings and proposed improvements separately attributable to their evidence, assumptions and limits. Predictions remain predictions until checked against actual outcomes.
Environmental Integrity Governance
Define acceptance criteria, response thresholds, responsibilities, review deadlines and escalation. Address competing requirements and retain accountable ownership through handovers.
Admissible Execution Architecture
Examine the exact proposed action against current evidence, applicable authority and established standing. Bind its scope and constraints, revalidate at commit, and verify what actually followed.
These are distinct responsibilities connected by a common record. A low reading at one location cannot, by itself, establish acceptable conditions throughout a building. This technical use of admissibility does not assert judicial admissibility.
THE GOVERNING QUESTION
Does this proposed consequence have sufficient Admissible Evidence, Applicable Authority, and Established Standing to become reality NOW?
THE EIGHT-ANCHOR EXAMINATION
From reality to verified outcome.
REALITY
Identify the actual occupied-space condition and its operating context.
RECORD
Preserve raw readings, time, location, instrument identity and relevant HVAC state.
CONTINUITY
Keep the record attributable through changes, handoffs and missing intervals.
ADMISSIBILITY
Determine whether the evidence supports this specific proposed action.
BINDING
Connect the evidence, applicable policy and responsible equipment to the proposal.
COMMIT
Confirm established standing and locally applicable authority at the decision point.
EXECUTION
Allow, hold, deny or escalate the bounded action before physical execution.
OUTCOME
Verify what actually changed and preserve the new environmental reality.
WORKED EXAMPLE · ILLUSTRATIVE
A school needs ventilation. Then the outdoor air changes.
An occupied classroom's CO₂ level supports consideration of additional ventilation. Before a prepared HVAC command executes, outdoor PM2.5 rises with wildfire smoke. The earlier observation does not automatically authorize the same command under changed conditions.
Indoor CO₂ supports examining a ventilation response while the original outdoor-air context is acceptable.
Outdoor PM2.5 rises before execution. The evidence context supporting the prepared command is no longer the same.
Refresh the outdoor-air record, examine district IAQ policy and equipment constraints, and confirm locally established authority before a new commit.
HOLDIllustrative disposition: do not release the previously prepared command on stale context. A new decision requires current admissible evidence, applicable authority and established standing.
This is a teaching scenario, not a claim that TA-14 controls a real school or that HOLD is the correct determination for every building.
EXAMINE THE SCHOOL-AIR SCENARIO →ONGOING COMMISSIONING
Keep checking as the building changes.
Initial commissioning demonstrates performance under the conditions tested. Occupancy, weather, filters, equipment and control settings change afterward. Ongoing commissioning combines monitored evidence with investigation, functional testing, justified corrections and outcome verification.
GOIAQG connects that cycle to preserved records and assigned responsibilities: establish the baseline, examine deviations, authorize any necessary intervention, verify results against predefined criteria, and preserve the history. Revised baselines require documented review. An old acceptable record does not authorize reliance after a material change.
This framework supports qualified engineering practice. Live enforcement requires suitable instrumentation, integration, validated controls and locally authorized personnel; the educational showroom itself does not operate building equipment.
EIGHT TEACHING IMAGES · ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY
Follow the evidence through every boundary.
These are hypothetical teaching illustrations, not live readings, certified evidence, or real authorization records. Scroll freely and examine each stage.
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01 — REALITY. We begin with the actual classroom, not a dashboard conclusion. Occupancy, indoor carbon dioxide, outdoor particulate matter, and the operating state of the air-handling system establish the physical context. Observation alone is not permission to intervene.
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02 — RECORD. Preserve the raw readings, instrument identity, timestamp, location, and HVAC state. The Atmospheric Integrity Record must retain what was actually observed and where it came from. A summary cannot replace its original evidence.
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03 — CONTINUITY. The original evidence must remain attributable as it moves through storage, processing, handoffs, and time. Changed conditions do not erase the original record. They change what that record can support now.
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04 — ADMISSIBILITY. A preserved reading may be authentic but insufficient for the proposed ventilation action. The question is whether current evidence is relevant, reliable, and sufficient for this particular consequence.
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05 — BINDING. Connect the evidence to the specific HVAC asset, applicable policy, operating constraints, responsible decision maker, and proposed action. An observation does not independently grant authority.
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06 — COMMIT. Before any physical action, test admissible evidence, applicable authority, and established standing. With wildfire smoke changing outdoor air, the earlier proposal is held pending renewed examination.
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07 — EXECUTION. HOLD means the prepared ventilation command is not released. The equipment remains under its existing authorized control. Capability is not authority.
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08 — OUTCOME. Verify and record what actually happened, including non-execution. Preserve the held command, decision context, equipment state, and new environmental observations. A documented HOLD is an outcome.
PARTICIPATE IN GOIAQG
Learn. Examine. Contribute.
Start with the public resources. If you would like to contribute, bring a defined question, building context or research method. Share only information you are authorized to disclose.
01 · LEARNExplore TA-14 Academy →Free public education, including the 608 Arcade, 14-Step Arcade and the first two completed modules of the developing 120-hour course. EPA 608 material concerns U.S. refrigerant knowledge; local qualification requirements apply.02 · EXAMINETry a school-air consequence test →Explore an educational scenario and ask which evidence, authority and operating conditions support each action.03 · CONTRIBUTEDiscuss your context with TA-14 →Researchers can examine methods and uncertainty; building teams can explore evidence handovers; institutions and communities can discuss requirements, education or a potential scoped pilot.
Exploration and discussion do not establish a partnership, approval or endorsement. Any formal examination, integration or pilot requires separately agreed scope, responsibilities and terms.
REFERENCE LIBRARY
Explore the existing TA-14 architecture.
Environmental Integrity Governance →Examine the governance layer connecting environmental observations to accountable decisions.Atmospheric and Environmental Records →Explore provenance, preservation, continuity and evidence limitations.School Air: The Execution Boundary →Follow a hypothetical ventilation decision when outdoor wildfire smoke changes before execution.School Air Quality Governance · Eight-Image Showroom →Explore the existing visual examination of monitoring, admissible evidence, authorized intervention and verified outcome.Interactive School-Air Consequence Test →Compare proposed actions and their evidence, authority and standing requirements.Public Technical Corpus →Review the published architecture and its documented development history.Smart City Admissible Governance →Explore an educational application of evidence and authority boundaries at city scale.TA-14 Academy →Explore free public learning resources and governance simulations.Discuss a Contribution or Scoped Review →Contact TA-14 about research perspectives, educational use or a separately scoped examination.