Our science fiction based ideas of future spaceships paint a picture of perfectly calibrated indoor environments protecting passengers from the inhospitable vacuum of space but also keeping them comfortable, healthy and productive. Our earth based and immobile modern offices have the same ambitions; to ensure occupants are comfortable, healthy and productive thereby improving the efficiency of the company they work for. In a recent article for the Wall Street Journal entitled Why Office Buildings Should Run Like Spaceships, Chris Mims references a 2015 study led by Joseph Allan that looked at the effect of CO2 and VOC concentrations on office workers’ cognitive abilities. Chris concluded from all this that we need more high tech sensors and fancy ventilation technologies to monitor and improve air quality, in order to improve the productivity levels of office workers. Back in 2015 we covered findings of the same report in our article Smart Building Management System Combats Office Drowsiness, […]