Our scope of work included:
Preparation of commissioning plans. We created a commissioning plan that included a communication plan, testing plan, and roles and responsibilities matrix. This commissioning plan helped team members from the owners, designers and contractors understand the commissioning program.
Development of basis of design documents. We participated in meetings governing operations, commissioning planning, design and construction teams, and vendors, allowing us to verify the commissioning was incorporated into the project planning and documents. We wrote the commissioning specifications, drafted a preliminary commissioning schedule, prepared the OPR document, reviewed the basis of design, identified systems to be commissioned, identified acceptance criteria, and wrote the preliminary commissioning prefunctional checklists and functional performance tests.
Review of construction documents. We conducted commissioning design reviews at the 50% and pre-final design stage. These design reviews were from an O&M perspective focusing on each system and equipment’s ability to be serviced, maintained and balanced. By conducting these reviews, we addressed coordination and design errors before they became issues.
Coordination of commissioning activities milestones. We worked with the general contractor to input the main commissioning activities into the master schedule.
Directing and facilitating commissioning during construction. Our commissioning team facilitated the project’s construction phase commissioning process by leading commissioning meetings with the project team and stakeholders to coordinate necessary tasks. We also provided reviews of contractor-generated reports, site observations to witness the ongoing installation status of equipment, and regular updates to the project’s issues log.
Review of construction submittals. Our team reviewed construction submittals to verify compliance with the design intent in the areas of energy conservation, operations and maintainability.
Maintaining issues log and commissioning field notebook. We used the Facility Grid commissioning software platform to distribute real-time information to the project team concerning the status of issues log items. The project team was also provided access to the commissioning field notebook and commissioning checklists through the Facility Grid platform.
Post-occupancy site visits. Our warranty review included a survey of O&M staff and key stakeholders, review of trend data, and testing of any issues not previously verified. The final commissioning report was updated with an appendix to include data gathered during the warranty review.