The Spanish Association for Standardization presented the new UNE 171380 standard on CO2 monitoring for health prevention. The University of Seville has played a significant role in the development of these regulations through the Architecture, Heritage and Sustainability Research Group: Acoustics, Lighting, Optics and Energy, represented by researchers Samuel Domínguez and Miguel Ángel Campano.

This standard is a great achievement in the prevention of airborne disease transmission, based on everything learned after the SARS-CoV-2 health emergency, and transparent information to the public about the air quality of establishments.

The development of the new Standard UNE 171380:2024 Continuous measurement of CO2 indoors for health prevention and improvement of well-being responds to the need to complement and improve the requirements established by quality standards and current legislation. This conference included experts in ventilation, aerosols and measurements and standards, who have given us a broad vision of the importance of protecting air quality and its consequences, in addition to presenting the recently published UNE standard that provides a comprehensive procedure for the implementation, validation and audit of continuous carbon dioxide (CO2) measurement systems.

The UNE 171380 Standard contemplates the requirements that measurement equipment must meet, the project for its implementation depending on the typologies and uses of the premises, the management and information of the data obtained, the establishment of CO2 concentration thresholds for the air quality and audit procedures for these measurements.

Finally, the UNE Standard has been developed in a working group in the UNE Committee on Indoor Environmental Quality (CTN-UNE 171), led by AIREAMOS and by the Federación de Empresas de Calidad Ambiental en Interiores (FEDECAI), with the impetus of the General Council of Official Colleges of Industrial Engineers and the participation of all interest groups.