Commissioning - Articles - Page 19

Decommissioning & Facilities Operations

Rebecca T. Ellis, P.E.

August 2, 2015

At project demolition, do you recycle, reuse, or replace existing equipment? And who decides?

Leveraging O&M Staff Experience For Retrocommissioning

Rebecca T. Ellis, P.E.

June 30, 2015

Quality communication can boost chances for success both during a project and afterward.

Controls Submittals And Tough Love

The road to headache is paved with trying to save someone a little time.

Rebecca T. Ellis, P.E.

June 8, 2015

One of the most important construction phase commissioning activities is control submittal review and controls integration.

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Know Your Systems

Testing without the team members who can answer the “why?” of functional perfor-mance may be costly.

Rebecca T. Ellis, P.E.

May 7, 2015

Some people consider commissioning to be too much trouble and too much time to tack on to the end of a project.

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Post-Construction Design Team Change

What does (and doesn’t) get scrapped in this uncommon changing of the guard?

Rebecca T. Ellis, P.E.

April 1, 2015

This month, I am continuing my recent exploration of situations where building systems do not pass their commissioning functional performance tests at the end of construction.

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Sometimes Non-Compliant Is Okay

Different isn’t necessarily wrong if all parties agree (and with appropriate follow-up).

Rebecca T. Ellis, P.E.

March 2, 2015

Last month’s column (February 2015) addressed the potential situation where the design engineers specify a change to a system which has already passed its commissioning functional performance test.

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