COMMISSIONING
Commissioning is a quality-oriented process for achieving, verifying and documenting that the performance of the facilities, systems and assemblies meet defined objectives and the Owner’s Project Requirements.
Commissioning is not a product but a process, therefore the value of commissioning process is greatly dependent by the performance of the single individuals working on your project.
The commissioning process integrates and enhances the traditionally separate functions of design peer review, design and construction coordination, equipment startup, control system calibration, testing, adjusting and balancing, equipment documentation and facility staff training, and adds the activities of documented functional testing and verification.
The challenge in commissioning lies not as much in commissioning components, but in commissioning an assembly of components (system) to function repeatedly and reliably in integrated fashion under every conceivable operating condition.
There are numbers of factors that differentiate Synergy Engineering and our approach to commissioning:
We offer increased emphasis on development and facilitation of the Owner’s Project Requirements (OPR), defining functional requirements of a project and expectations of how it will be used and operated. OPR provides the benchmark against which design, construction and project operating performance can be measured.
Understanding the great financial benefits that proper and timely design reviews bring to our clients, we have chosen more comprehensive and quality based commissioning model that goes far beyond just identifying design elements that prevent functional testing, commissionability and maintenance of the system. Our commissioning model includes:
- Comprehensive review of design documents against Owners Project Requirements.
- Utilizing as a reviewer(s) the most senior individuals with at least 10 years experience in commissioning, operations. design, energy management and construction.
- Commissioning process design reviews will occur 4 (four) different times during the project, at 100% schematic design, 100% of design development, 95% complete construction documents and 100% of issued for bid documents.
- Constructability review to minimize potential change orders.
- Quality control review that identifies possibly confusing or conflicting information in the contract documents.
- Value engineering review that does not compromise owner’s project requirements.
- Facilitate building’s operators training and equipment turn-over.