Commissioning Process during Design • Review the Schematic Design Narrative, Design Development 50% MEP Narrative for Owner’s Objectives. Work with Owner to confirm design objectives for items not in Narratives. • Attend 3 meetings with the project team during the design phase. Kick-off meeting and comment review meetings. Meetings are assumed to take place via virtual meetings. • Design Review: • Perform a commissioning review of the drawings and specifications for constructability, serviceability, and maintainability. • Perform an independent design review in relation to building enclosure system performance, continuity with adjacent systems, durability, and constructability. • A review will be required at the 100% DD stage and at the 75% CD stage. • Provide mark-ups on drawings in PDF format. • Provide a comment log tabulating drawing and specification review comments in Excel file format. • Attend meetings with the project team to discuss review comments after each review. • Develop full commissioning specifications based on Owner’s requirements. Coordinate and integrate into the project specifications prepared by the project architect and engineers. The commissioning specification shall include a detailed description of the responsibilities of all the parties, details of the commissioning process, reporting and documentation requirements including formats, deficiency resolution, pre-functional checklist requirements, functional testing requirements, test, and balancing requirements, building envelope testing and inspections, training, O&Ms, record document requirements and retesting responsibilities. • The specification should include a “definitions” section that clearly defines what will constitute “engineered system acceptance” within the commissioning process. Formal acceptance may require demonstration of conformance with project performance criteria, successful completion of Functional Performance Test, or both.
