The original paper contains a high-level explanation of the dataset characteristics, and potential use cases of the dataset. ArchABM can help to quantify the impact of some of these building- and company policy-related measures.
Baseline experiment
A baseline case with no measures and reduced ventilation is first studied. An schedule is set for each event type, along with their minimum and maximum duration $\tau$, and the number of repetitions. The mask is not used anywhere ($m_e = 0$). Meetings and the lunch activity are considered to be collective events.
The places' capacity refers to the maximum number of people that can be present in that specified space. A low natural ventilation rate is established ($\lambda_a = 1.5$, and $\lambda_a = 0.5$ for poor ventilated rooms) and there is no mechanical ventilation ($\lambda_r = 0$).
Building-related experiments
Larger building: each room's area (and thus each room's volume) is increased by 20%. This measure needs to take into account the increase in costs, which would mean an increase of almost 20% in the final construction costs as well.
Separate workspaces: the open office is divided into three identical offices, each one with 110 $m^2$, 16 people (48/3), and a capacity of 20 (60/3).
Better natural ventilation: windows are opened everywhere except in restrooms for better outdoor air supply. $\lambda_a$ is increased up to 5 $h^{-1}$.
Better mechanical ventilation: the flow rate $Q_{AC}$ of the AC system is incremented, assuming a 20% filter efficiency $\varepsilon_{filter}$, a 10% of removal in ducts $\varepsilon_{ducts}$ and no additional $\varepsilon_{extra}$ removal measures. Adding AC to the building would mean an increase of 14% in the building overall costs.
Policy-related experiments
Shifts between workers: this would imply a reduction in the number of people present in each room. For this experiment, the population is reduced by 40%, resulting in 29 people in the open office, 4 in the IT Office, and 1 in each chief office, summing up to 36 people. This measure also entails a non-quantifiable cost to the company.
Limit duration of events: the duration of meetings is limited to a maximum of 30 minutes, setting $\tau = [0.\hat{3} - 0.5] h$. The duration of coffee breaks would be limited to 5 minutes, meaning $\tau = 0.08\hat{3} h$, and lunch would be of 20 minutes, $\tau = 0.\hat{3} h$.
Use of masks: in this case, the mask use is mandatory, meaning that $m_f = 1$ and the mask efficiency, $m_e$, is set to 0.75 in the offices and meeting rooms, to 0.5 in the restrooms, to 0.3 for coffee breaks and leaving it at 0 for lunch breaks, representing the absence of masks while eating.
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