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This month, I begin a few columns about technical commissioning issues.

If someone is special enough to spend millions of dollars to have a building custom-designed and constructed for their use, it is un-derstandable that they would expect perfection.

This past August, I wrote in this column about the opportunity to invest in a niche business providing temporary HVAC design and construction administration.

During the past 12 years, I have had the opportunity to work on many controls projects.

Most people in the major design and construction business understand that commissioning is a process by which a building’s systems are verified to function properly prior to acceptance by the owner.

There are several types of HVAC water systems that are designed with diversity.

In our world of growing concerns with global warming, utility companies across the world are making energy storage more cost effective for energy users.

My data center design experience is old enough to drive this year.

Commissioning professionals, myself included, have always advocated the delay of systems acceptance by and turnover to the owner until the commissioning process is complete. In this sense, “complete” means the systems pass their functional performance tests and the owner’s operations staff has been properly trained.

There is a great line in the classic 1980’s movie Top Gun, where Maverick says to his co-pilot, Goose, “I feel the need,” and they then say in unison “the need for speed.”