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Sep 07, 2024
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ARE 5871 - Commissioning3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits Course Description This course introduces the process of commissioning buildings for use and occupancy. The course covers processes that can be verified by one-time measurements and with hand-held measuring devices and those requiring short-term and long-term monitoring, verification, and analyses. Topics include commissioning of HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and building envelope systems; commissioning planning; recommissioning; and retro-commissioning. (prereq: ARE 5451 or ARE 5161 ) (quarter system prereq: AE 3422 or AE 3622) Course Learning Outcomes Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Identify the benefits that the commissioning process brings to new construction and existing buildings as it pertains to HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and building enclosure
- Define the commissioning process and the roles that commissioning providers, design teams, contractors, facilities, and owner play in the commissioning process
- Facilitate a successful commissioning meeting
- Implement the commissioning process and the steps necessary to create a cohesive team environment and a successful project outcome
- Prepare construction verification forms from design documents, specifications, and equipment submittals
- Identify installation and implementation issues while on site
- Explain sequences of operation in a manner understood by the entire commissioning team. Identify areas of concern or confusion
- Develop functional test documents from existing sequences of operation and controls submittals
- Demonstrate proficiency with hand-held measuring devices and data loggers
- Analyze trend data from controls systems and data loggers to verify proper or improper operation of the control system; provide appropriate samples to communicate concerns; evaluate outcomes of functional testing and the next steps to take to move towards a properly functioning system
- Compose verbal and written communication to address all levels of personnel on the commissioning team, including potential shareholders, with class participation with practice and feedback
Prerequisites by Topic
- General understanding of at least one of the following building systems:
- HVAC
- Plumbing
- Electrical
- Fire protection
- Construction management (from a GC perspective)
- Envelope/enclosure
Course Topics
- Introduction to commissioning, the role of the commissioning provider, the economics of commissioning, the benefits of commissioning, The Building Commissioning Association (BCA) Handbook, and ASHRAE Guideline 0
- Communication skills: verbal and written, use of words
- Participate in the process for creating an Owner’s Project Requirements (OPR) document through a user group meeting session, discussing the tie to commissioning, and creating an OPR
- Review Basis of Design (BoD) documents, including a compare and contrast of BoDs to OPR
- Perform commissioning-based design reviews at various stages of design - schematic, design, construction phase documents
- Construction phase commissioning process, commissioning kick-off meeting, commissioning progress meetings, defining the commissioning team
- Creating and utilizing construction verification forms; understanding what commissioning is looking for during visits to site, creating a site visit report
- Life safety dampers: reviewing the installation and functional testing processes and tie in to fire alarm testing (2 lecture hours)
- Firestopping review
- Students will participate in a tour of a site TBD to see mechanical and electrical equipment in action and to understand from a commissioning perspective what is important to verify both during the installation process and functional testing processes
- Building enclosure commissioning process from the design phase through the construction phase and field testing
- Review electrical distribution and emergency power projects, including information gathered with one-line drawings; discuss implementation on site and commissioning testing strategies
- Review a designer’s sequence of operation; review a controls submittal; facilitate a controls page turn meeting
- Learn strategies for writing functional test documents for the control contractor to utilize for testing on site
- Trends: verify trends, capture trends, review trends, analyze and understand trends
- Tools: use of various handheld measuring devices and data loggers
- Students will participate in functional testing on site if possible or via remote access to the BAS to see mechanical and electrical equipment performing through various control strategies
- Reporting of test data in an effective manner
- Operations phase commissioning process
- Seasonal functional testing
- Recommissioning and retro-commissioning; understand how the commissioning team dynamics differ from a new construction commissioning process, communication, planning, and facilitating the commissioning process
Coordinator Rachel Rueckert, P.E.
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