The document discusses best practices for commissioning management companies during the construction phase. It recommends maintaining communication with project teams and understanding the project through site visits. It also emphasizes completing pre-functional checklists, contributing solutions rather than just problems, and customizing functional performance tests based on equipment specifications and control sequences. The overall goal is to prevent issues early and ensure teams are informed and prepared for acceptance testing.

1. Commissioning - Best Practices
During the Construction Phase
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2. Commissioning Best Practices
• Staying abreast of project updates and developing a rapport with all the
parties involved in the project are important aspects of the commissioning
process.
• Interestingly, there are handful of best practices that the best commissioning
management company in the UK can integrate into each stage of the
commissioning process to make it more effective.
• Keep reading to know about such practices that you can use during the
important phase of construction.
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3. Conducting a Great Initial Meeting
• When conducted appropriately, the initial meeting should make the project team feel
quite confident that the commissioning management firm is available at all times to
ensure the project completes successfully.
• Scheduling the meeting mindfully. It should not be scheduled too early. Reason being,
contractors may forget about the commissioning process if too much time passes by.
• It may appear obvious, but the initial meeting must include a complete review of the
commissioning authority process.
• Maintaining the momentum of the meeting is important. This can be done by visiting
the site soon after the meeting and interacting with contractors while showing
interest in their work to understand the project in a better way through keen
observation.
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4. Completing Pre-Functional Checklists
• Instead of depending on installation contractors, the commissioning authority should
take the responsibility to complete the documentation of pre-functional checklist.
• While acting as the most effective supporter of the project owner, the commission
authority can check appropriate installation early on in order to prevent systemic
problems from occurring in the first place.
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5. Becoming Part of the Solution
• Project teams admire commissioning management companies that work
beyond generating lists of problems. That is to say, the commission authority
should put in efforts to be part of the solution.
• The commissioning deficiencies log is certainly a crucial communication tool
to track deficiencies that cannot be fixed immediately. Every deficiency is
assigned to a suitable member of the project team.
• This log should define every deficiency with clarity while offering suggestions
on how to resolve the issue.
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6. Customising Functional Performance
Testing
• After the approval of submittals, Functional Performance Testing (FPT)
documentation must be completed.
• The documentation should describe any particular installation or operational
requirements from the manufacturer, along with test procedures developed
through years of commissioning experience.
• Specific control sequences should be used that are developed by the design
team to check the response of equipment to changes in the status, like
transition from heating to cooling or enabling the economizer mode.
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7. To Conclude
• The true value of commissioning is achieved in the design phase – when
the impact is highest and the costs are lowest.
• As the project proceeds into the construction phase, avoiding costs
becomes tougher.
• The best practices discussed above will help ensure that members of the
project team are well informed, costly equipment failures are prevented
and the project is ready for successful acceptance and testing phases.
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8. Contact Us
• Address: Global Commissioning Management and Software Ltd, Unit
2, Chestfield Business Park
Whitstable | Kent, CT5 3JB
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