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Provides tips for the documentation of system operation and sequences of control associated with heating and ventilation systems. Use of system schematic diagrams in presenting sequences of control; Identification of design specification requirements; Results of actual program configuration.

Focuses on the importance of commissioning to achieve the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating for building owners. Brief description about LEED; Enumeration of activities for fundamental building systems commissioning; Functions and responsibilities of a commissioning authority.

Determines the relationship between partnering and commissioning process. Execution of a design and construction project; Critical aspects of a project's success; Partnering approaches in the construction industry.

Explores the issues associated with testing, adjusting and balancing work as part of the commissioning consultant's scope of services. Common concerns of owners regarding TAB work subcontracted to either mechanical or general contractor; Conflict of interest of contractors.

Focuses on Testing, Adjusting and Balancing (TAB) in commissioning industry. Processes of TAB to design intent and contract document requirements; Types of approaches for TAB/commissioning interface; Notes of TAB contractor for review of TAB report.

Focuses on the importance of solid training of employees on the continued operation of commissioned systems in the U.S. Preparation of a comprehensive training program; Assessment of the training needs of the owners; Cost associated with videotaping during trainings.

Discusses the relationship between quality control and commissioning, which is about confirming dynamic system performance and preparing operations and maintenance staff to operate heating, ventilation and airconditioning systems. Quality control as the process of confirming static equipment and component installation; Functional testing process; Random checks.

Focuses on the formal punchlists process and commissioning verification test in construction industry. Definition of punchlist process by the American Institute of Architecture; Discovery of operational deficiencies during verification testing; Use of commissioning verification test to test the function or dynamic performance of the systems.

Focuses on the role of commissioning in the reconstruction plans for Pentagon in Pennsylvania. Rewards of commissioning the life safety systems of the building; Cooperation between design, construction and facility operation teams in the commissioning process; Concept of team sport the commissioning procedure.

Focuses on the factors that influence the success of commissioning projects in engineering. Facility owners' hiring of commissioning consultants to solve problems related to the project; Forms of influence that owners can exert over designers and contractors; Assignment of award fees as a positive approach to encourage contractors.

Focuses on the factors affecting the success on various commissioning projects in the United States. Influence of the owners on the success of commissioning projects; Introduction of the commissioning consultant to the rest of the project team; Need for owners to understand the integral part in project completion.

Highlights the commissioning process of central chilled water plants. Components of central plant system; Purpose of central plant system; Plant design; Operational requirements.

Discusses the ins and outs of commissioning services for the maintenance of buildings. Belief that commissioning services has reached a commodity status; Initiatives in the design and construction industry to create standards on the commissioning of building maintenance.

Focuses on the operations and maintenance (O&M) of as-built drawings for changes on documents in the construction process. Importance of as-built drawings on future system changes and tool for O&M staff; Approach to as-built drawing preparation for installation contractors; List of options on the review of manual record drawings.

Focuses on the commissioning process in the installation of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (hvac) systems in buildings. Elements of the commissioning process in building environmental engineering; Details regarding the continuous commissioning process; primary difference between recommissioning and continuous commissioning in building environmental engineering.

Discusses the recommissioning process. Application of the term recommissioning on buildings previously retro-commissioned; Inclusion of system revisiting and retesting; Benefits of recommissioning; Need to reconsider annual retesting of major central systems.

Explains the meaning of the term, commissioning used to refer to various functions of building systems. Retro-commissioning performed in existing buildings that have never been commissioned; Distinctions of continuous commissioning.

Focuses on the importance of commissioning process for consultants. Impact of the midtesting meeting on contractor relationship and cooperation; Factors attributing to the success of the meeting; Participation of contractors in the commissioning process of the company.

Expounds on factors to consider in assessing the quality of a construction project. Meeting of budget allocations; Performance of cost estimates; Payment and change-order processes; Maintenance of a master construction schedule; Meeting of owner's expectations.

Focuses on the importance of measuring and verifying (M&V) the efficiency of energy conservation systems in buildings in the United States. Implication of M&V for payments and compensations of energy performance contractors; Benefits of incorporating the techniques in the verification testing portion of a project; Comparison of commissioning with M&V.

Offers advice on commissioning in design-build (D-B) construction projects. Key differences between traditional and D-B projects; Importance of the commissioning process to D-B projects; Absence of well-documented design and/or as-built drawings.

Discusses the value of the design intent document (DID) as an operations and maintenance reference throughout the life of a building's heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration systems. DID overview; Interpretation of the DID; Use of the DID in future renovation design; Maintenance and updating of the DID.

Provides information on the design intent document (DID), considered the backbone of the commissioning process. Representation of the objectives of the project from a systems performance standpoint; Testing criteria; Importance of the DID.

Looks at one of the costs of not commissioning new or renovated building systems. Commissioning process; Benefits of commissioning.

Illustrates the reduction of construction project cost with commissioning in the United States. Inclusion of clear bid and commissioning requirements in the contract documents; Prioritization of design and commissioning investment; Payment method for commissioning.

Focuses on factors affecting success of commissioning programs. Need for long-term marketing in implementing commissioning programs for long-term projects; Importance of ongoing documentation of benefits realized due to the commissioning process to be ready for owner staff turnover; Role of a commissioning consultant in the tracking and reporting of benefits.

Focuses on the commissioning process during construction. Need for coordination and cooperation of all parties associated with a design and construction project; Commissioning consultant's identification of tasks added to the construction phase; Enforcement of scheduling requirements.

Assesses the significance of quality control and commissioning in overseeing the implementation of construction projects in the United States. Aspects of commissioning; Definition of quality control; Implication of operation and maintenance on equipment and systems.

Offers advice to building and facility owners/operators about hiring commissioning services. Need for in-house investment of time and program definition; Development of a master plan; Collaborative effort between the capital projects people, the facilities operations and maintenance people; Selection of a third-party commissioning consultant.

Details steps involved in selling commissioning (cx) for a design-construction project. Prediction of benefit from commissioning; Challenges facing the Cx community includes documentation of a track record of commissioning; Recording of number of change-orders executed and number of deficiencies discovered; Evaluation of the results of the Cx effort.

Discusses how commissioning can help in the development of a preventive maintenance (PM) plan. Review of operations and maintenance (O&M) manuals; Tailoring the commissioning process to address the PM program development; Equipment maintenance.

Discusses the importance of including building operations and maintenance (O&M) personnel in all phases of the commissioning process. Characteristics of a good commissioning plan; Responsibilites of the O&M staff; Need for O&M personnel to be involved throughout construction.

Discusses the importance of starting the commissioning during a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning project's design phase. Effect of not starting commissioning in the design phase; Benefits of early start of commissioning.

Focuses on the commissioning of building systems. Communication breakdown among project team members; Hardware installation problems; Introduction of direct digital controls on heating, ventilation and airconditioning systems.

Categories various types of building owners in terms of their commissioning of services. Needs for commissioning; Involvement in the construction project; Level of knowledge on building systems.

Discusses the benefits that design and construction team members can realize if they help make commissioning work. Design intent document; Occurrence of fewer problems following formal testing and problem resolution stage in the design process; Major benefits of commissioning for installing contractors; Primary objective of a commissioned project.

Compares electrical and mechanical commissioning of heating, ventilating and airconditioning systems. Mechanical system operation; Mechanisms of electrical insulation failure under the influence of applied voltage and surge voltages; Control schemes such as smoke evacuation and ground fault protection.

Discusses the basic elements of a focused, non-competitive, logical approach to problem solving resulting from the integration of a commissioning consultant into the design and construction team. Includes well-defined team member roles; Mutual respect for professional capabilities; Listening to and responding to other people's ideas, experiences and needs.

Looks at basic steps in the process of recommissioning existing buildings. Meeting with the facility owner and designating user groups and operating engineers as appropriate; Interviewing the building owners, occupants and operators to learn the history of the building and its systems; Reviewing available original and subsequent renovation design documents.

Explores the options regarding who will provide commissioning service for the heating, ventilation and air conditioning industry. Job responsibilities of an installation contractor; Capabilities of a balancing contractor; Familiarity of the design engineer with the systems to be commissioner; Responsibilities of a third-party professional.

Examines the cost implications of commissioning in construction projects. Factors that affect the cost of commissioning; Description of the type of building; Commissioning cost; Design cost; Construction cost; Operation cost.

Focuses on warranty-period commissioning activities of building systems. Commissioning tasks; System performance tests; Commissioning specification; Mechanism for holding payment; Ten-month checkup; Performance monitoring.

Presents tips for documenting system configuration, operation and commissioning. Commissioning plan; Design intent document; Schematic diagrams; Sequences of operation; Training plans; Verification; Corrective action.

Provides information on intensive systems training, one of the commissioning fundamentals. Operations and maintenance personnel training as a specified responsibility of contractors installing new or modified equipment; Types of training; Goal of training.

Presents tips for conducting verification tests in a construction project. Prerequisites for verification testing; Participation in hands-on verification; Analysis of deficiency.

Discusses commissioning process during construction of buildings. Focus of the process; Objective of a commissioning agent in evaluating the construction documentation; Commissioning requirements.

Outlines the commissioning tasks that are best performed during the predesign, programming or conceptual design phase of a building project. Account on the fundamentals of the tasks; Documentation of the tasks using the Design Intent Document (DID) report.

Discusses the design intent document as being integral to the commissioning process of a building design. Significance of the D.I.D.; Objectives which a commissioning agent must have in mind when reviewing the design documents; Information on the commissioning specification section developed by the commissioning agent for the official project manual; Function of the construction documents of the project.