Location
Identify the space consistently.
Use controlled location choices that match facilities naming across sites.
- Building, floor, room, or zone
- Workstation area or landmark
- Optional precise location
Free indoor air feedback survey builder
Free AI Air Quality Survey Generator
Describe the building and observations to collect. Makeform creates an air quality survey with location, timing, comfort, odor, ventilation, and follow-up questions.
- Unlimited free forms and responses
- Editable before publish
- Anonymous response option
- Location and time-based observations
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Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a prompt, adapt it to your building, or send it to the Makeform builder.
Prompt ready4 formats
Audience
Employees working across office floors and zones
Format
Short recurring survey with ratings and location routing
Prompt size
256 chars
Brief qualitySends to builder
Example survey structure
Short recurring survey with ratings and location routing
Prompt exampleEditable in builder
Building, floor, and work zone
DropdownFirst ask
2
How comfortable did the air feel?
Rating
3
Which conditions did you notice?
Checkboxes
4
Where and when did this occur?
Short answer
5
May facilities contact you?
Yes / no
Suggested routing tags
Odor reports
Ventilation concerns
Facilities follow-up
Ask for the room or zone and time noticed so facilities can compare feedback with schedules and sensor readings.
Step 1
Locate
building, floor, room, zone, and time
Step 2
Observe
comfort, airflow, odors, dust, and moisture
Step 3
Route
conditional details reach the right facilities queue
Step 4
Compare
patterns are reviewed alongside operational data
Useful occupant evidence
Turn vague air complaints into reviewable observations.
Anchor each response to a place, time, perceived condition, and recurrence pattern that a facilities team or researcher can examine.
Pinpoint the affected zone
Use controlled building, floor, room, and zone choices so reports group cleanly.
Reveal details conditionally
After a condition is selected, show relevant questions about intensity, timing, and location.
Keep scales comparable
Reuse labeled scales, then export responses for comparison with operational records.
Designed for different settings
Adapt one survey pattern to the building and audience.
Replace generic locations and schedules with real zones, shifts, class periods, or study intervals.
Workplaces
Run a short pulse by floor, with separate contact permission.
Schools
Identify classrooms, class periods, ventilation use, and recurring conditions.
Multi-unit properties
Collect tenant observations with a separate urgent-maintenance route.
Research projects
Use participant codes, fixed scales, repeat schedules, and export-ready variables.
Survey workflow
Build an air quality survey people can answer accurately.
Design location choices, observation scales, branching, and routing around the review decisions.
01
Describe the purpose and audience
Choose an occupant pulse, room log, tenant survey, or repeated research questionnaire.
02
Replace generic choices
Add real buildings, floors, rooms, zones, shifts, and reporting periods.
03
Add focused follow-up logic
Show condition details and contact fields only when relevant.
04
Route and review responses
Notify the team, tag conditions, and compare exports with work orders and readings.
Feedback methods
Choose structured observations over a catch-all inbox.
Consistent occupant questions complement physical measurements; they do not replace monitors or inspections.
Approach
What it captures
Best use
ApproachUnstructured email or comment box
What it capturesA narrative that may omit the room, time, frequency, or condition.
Best useOne-off context, but difficult to group across a building.
ApproachInstrument monitoring
What it capturesMeasured values from a sensor at a defined place and interval.
Best useObjective trend data, interpreted with placement and operating context.
Approach
Structured air quality survey
What it capturesPerceived comfort and observations tied to zone, time, frequency, and activities.
Best useFinding occupant patterns and deciding where follow-up review is needed.
Field guide
Six parts of a practical air quality survey.
Keep recurring pulses brief and show detailed branches only when needed.
Perception scales
Measure comfort with labeled options.
Ask separately about freshness, airflow, temperature, odor, and acceptability.
- Consistently labeled scales
- Not noticed or not applicable
- The same order each round
Timing
Capture when and how often.
Timing and recurrence help reviewers compare observations with schedules and equipment operation.
- Date and approximate time
- One-time or recurring
- Duration and affected periods
Condition details
Branch from the reported condition.
Use checkboxes first, then show conditional details only for selected conditions.
- Odor character and intensity
- Dust, drafts, or dampness
- Windows, doors, or equipment in use
Identity choices
Separate observation from follow-up.
Choose anonymous, coded, or identified responses and request contact only with permission.
- Anonymous response or code
- Optional follow-up permission
- No unrelated personal data
Routing
Set expectations after submission.
Explain who reviews responses and where urgent building problems should be reported.
- Next review step
- Urgent-reporting instructions
- Zone and condition tags
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Open toolFAQ
Air quality survey questions
Answers for facilities teams and researchers.
What is an air quality survey?
An air quality survey collects occupant perceptions and observations about indoor spaces, such as stuffiness, airflow, odors, temperature, dust, or visible dampness. A useful survey records where and when something was noticed and how often it occurs. It provides feedback for review; it does not itself measure pollutants or replace instruments and inspections.
What questions should an indoor air quality survey include?
Include building and zone, date and time, time spent in the space, comfort ratings, perceived airflow, unusual odors, dust, drafts, visible moisture, recurrence, and an optional description. Add conditional questions for the selected condition and ask for contact permission only if follow-up is useful.
Should the air quality survey be anonymous?
That depends on the purpose. Anonymous responses may encourage participation, while optional contact details help facilities clarify a localized report. Research projects may use participant codes for repeated responses. State the choice clearly and avoid collecting personal information that is not needed for the survey.
Can survey responses be treated as air quality measurements?
No. Ratings describe what occupants perceive at a place and time; they are not sensor readings. Review survey patterns alongside appropriate monitoring, building operations data, inspections, and maintenance records. The survey can help identify where and when further review may be useful.
How often should we send the survey?
Match the schedule to the decision. A short monthly or seasonal pulse can show recurring patterns, while a focused survey can follow a building change or maintenance project. Keep questions and scale labels stable when comparing rounds, and avoid sending so frequently that respondents stop noticing the request.
Can I route reports by building or condition?
Yes. Use dropdowns for buildings and zones, conditional logic for condition-specific details, and response tags such as odor, airflow, dampness, or follow-up requested. Notifications can then go to the responsible facilities contact, while exports provide a combined view for analysis.
Is this air quality survey generator free?
Yes. Makeform supports unlimited free forms and responses, so you can generate, edit, publish, and repeat the survey without a form or response cap. A paid tier is available only to remove the Makeform badge.
How should urgent concerns be handled?
Do not position a periodic survey as an emergency channel. Add clear instructions for urgent building issues and immediate hazards, including the appropriate phone number, help desk, or on-site process. The survey confirmation can explain the normal review timeline without promising a specific outcome.
Give every observation a place and time.
Generate an air quality survey built for useful occupant feedback.
Unlimited free forms and responsesEditable location and rating fieldsConditional observation details