Course Catalogue.

After participating in this course, you will be able to:

• Detail the major components of the building envelope
• Recognize commissioning and recommissioning processes as accepted practices for building owners and manufacturing process managers
• Incorporate the commissioning process in a successful design and construction approach, as well as transition from the current design-build-supervise process to the commissioning process
• Specify the key steps and tools used in the commissioning and total building commissioning process
• Adopt the total building commissioning process principles in your organization

Description
Building commissioning, a tool originally developed for HVAC systems, is being extended to all new building systems. Many major companies and government agencies now require the commissioning process on new construction and renovation projects. Owners of institutional, commercial, and industrial buildings and large multi-unit residential buildings must use proven quality management tools and process systems that match their needs, meet their budgets and schedules, and reduce operating problems (cost quality, energy efficiency).

In this course, you will consider the primary goals of the building commissioning process for new construction and explore the activities and roles of recommissioning for existing buildings that have already been commissioned, retro-commissioning for buildings that have not yet been commissioned, and continuous commissioning.

Who Should Attend
Project Managers • Contractors and Trade Representatives • Municipal Engineers and Managers • Civil Engineers

Course Syllabus

Day I

The Total Building Commissioning Process:  New Construction

• Introduction to building commissioning
• The fundamental objectives of the commissioning process
• Definition of commissioning
• Benefits of the total building commissioning process
• Do we need a building commissioning authority

The Building Envelope

• Objectives
• Definition of each of the components of the building envelope
• Review of each of the components of the building envelope

Building Commissioning Phases

• Pre-Design/Design Phase Commissioning Process
• Objectives
• Pre-design/design commissioning process
• Pre-design/design commissioning team
• Developing the commissioning plan
• Commissioning specifications
• Design phase commissioning process activities & responsibilities
• Pre-design/design phase activities
• Commissioning process progress reports

Construction Phase

• Objectives
• Construction phase responsibilities and activities
• Construction phase commissioning process
• Update the commissioning plan
• Commissioning responsibilities matrix (CRM): sample
• Review submittals
• Developing test procedures/data records
• Site observations inspections
• Issues log and deficiency resolution
• Construction phase documentation/progress reports
• Team Meetings

Acceptance Phase

• Objectives
• Acceptance phase responsibilities and activities
• Functional performance verification test (FPVT)
• Deferred testing
• Issue log and deficiency resolution
• Verification phase-test execution and functional performance verification
• Functional performance test forms: sample of standard procedure for variable frequency drives
• Training direction and verification
• Commissioning a corrective action report
• Record documents, operation and maintenance information
• Systems manual review and verification
• Updating the commissioning plan, the OPR and BOD
• Final commissioning report
• Acceptance phase documentation

Day II

Commissioning for Energy Management (LEED Building Commissioning)

• Continuous commissioning (CC) and team members
• Continuous commissioning process
• Uses of commissioning in the energy management process
• Commissioning measures
• Operational efficiency measures for AHU systems
• Ensuring optimum building performance
• Commissioning new buildings for energy management
• Sustainability principles and LEED
• Advantages of LEED certification
• The role of commissioning in LEED certification
• Fundamental building commissioning
• Commissioning report components
• Standards and guidelines
• Best Practice commissioning
• Measurement and verification
• International performance measurement and verification protocol (IPMVP)

Commissioning of Building Envelope Systems

• Commissioning of electrical systems/special electrical systems
• Commissioning of HVAC systems
• Commissioning of plumbing systems
• Commissioning of fire protection systems
• Design phase, construction phase, and acceptance phase activities of these systems

Building Recommissioning

• Decommissioning guide
• Rcx Benefits/Costs
• O&M assessment, Rcx and energy audits
• Rcx process
• Phase 1: Planning: recommissioning team, what makes a good candidate for recommissioning
• Phase 2: Investigation: pre-site investigation phase, typical HVAC information, problems that
• drives energy costs up
• Phase 3: Implementation
• Phase 4: Hand-off and persistence strategies
• Key strategies for success

Retro-commissioning

• Definitions
• Owner responsibilities
• Retro-commissioning authority responsibilities
• Certified TAB firm responsibilities
• Design professional responsibilities
• Contractor or vendor responsibilities
• Minimum instrumentation
• Retro-commissioning report
• Current building requirements (CBR)
• Processes

Investigation/Analysis Phase - Site Investigation Activities

• HVAC Activities
• Building envelope activities (investigation and tests)
• Electrical systems activities
• Site investigation: building lighting load and quality study
• Building lighting control study: building electrical study
• Building power quality and grounding inspection
• Electrical system M&V: building electrical investigation and tests
• Building energy analysis
• HVAC systems analysis
• Building envelope system analysis
• Electrical system analysis: plumbing system analysis
• Problem solutions
• Retro-commissioning corrective action report

Questions and Answers, Feedback on Achievement of Learning Outcomes