Thursday, November 29, 2018

Steps In Overseeing Successful Building Commissioning

By Joyce Walker


In the engineering industry, it would be almost impossible to use the term construction without building commissioning also being used. This is the process used in verification of new constructions subsystems, interior systems, sustainable and control systems, water and lighting and security systems in an attempt to achieve the owners visionary purpose of the of the proposed project. The article below highlights some of the merits.

Commissioning is required for almost all constructions of new buildings and when well-studied and enforced accordingly, one has more benefits to rip from the process than there are constraints. This may not the cheapest process as it will require a lot of resources and also state of the art technologies put to it and this is a factor that sees many refrains from the process only to incur losses later.

However, not all choose this process due to its costs as it, not the easiest as it has a long procedure that must be followed for over the top success to be achieved. But ignoring this process often proves to be a bad decision as the failures associated with it are very damaging and usually, lead to the collapse of the construction systems which can prove to be very dangerous and brings in a lot of uncontrollable loses.

Without commissioning then systems failure is inevitable as no precaution has been taken to the buildings construction strategy and there will not be information gathered on it. It is known that failure to plan is a plan to fail and this is a truth when it comes to construction. One will find themselves plagued with constraints that would have otherwise been avoided.

The prior activities have been done lightly but for equipment testing, one will need to get into deeper details and conduct a pre-functional performance testing. When it comes to successful construction, the best of equipments should be put to use and for this to actually happen the commissioning agent will test all equipments in detail and ensure that the right equipment is installed in the right place.

Commissioning not only has after benefits but also has the before construction benefits, during the process contractors are able to measure the levels of success they are most likely to achieve and can also familiarize themselves with the risks they may encounter in the process. This helps in allocating the right amount of resources to the process without overdoing it or under doing it.

Your final step will be to monitor your commissioning and this has become a bit easier with the emerging technology trends in the field of engineering that see to it that operations run smoothly and effectively with reduced bulk of paperwork. It uses analytical software and sensors that will ensure continuous monitoring hence being a very good tool when it comes to energy saving.

It is best advised to not walk into traps you have set for yourself through poor decision making or because of misguided information. It is better to have a future-oriented goal than plan for just a few years. Always go for quality over quantity.




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