Welcome to the AIRAH SA Technical Seminar

‘Lessons Learnt From Commissioning HVAC’

Presented by:
Richard Cooper, AM.AIRAH – Air Con Serve
Alek Wcislo – A G O’Connor
 LESSONS LEARNT FROM
COMMISSIONING CONTROLS

Richard Cooper
 What Affects Commissioning

• Things are not Ready

Rio Olympics
– Power is not available had to cancel Cycling
tests as Velodrome
– The plant is not wired not ready
– It’s not plumbed up
 Not installed as per the specification.
 Been installed as per the specification and still does not work.
 Been value managed by the managing contractor and the mechanical contractor
and something fundamental is now missing.
• Impossible Schedule.
– The Managing Contractor allocated us 2 weeks to do 8 weeks worth of
commissioning.
• 1 week before handover they are still building the building.
• Meters are Modbus when they are supposed to be LONworks.
• We have pressure controlled laboratories to commission and the building is not
sealed.
• WE HAVE ALL BEEN THERE AND WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN?
 LET’S LOOK AT HOW TO AVOID THESE THINGS

• Preparation for commissioning should start from the moment you receive a
purchase order.
– You must have this philosophy.
– If you install what is specified and just let everyone do their own thing, the job
will not commission well.
– If you do the above, and you cut costs, you will be lucky to ever get out of the
project.

 If you coordinated the trades and make sure what you are installing is engineered
to work, the project will commission faster.
 Commissioning time is Money.
 Achieving completion on time is good.
 So what are the most common problems ACS are finding
with systems that we go to commission?

• DX A/C systems are oversized and cannot control evenly and effectively.
• Pumping equipment is sized so marginally that motors fall of their curves.
• Fans are already at 100% speed and have no room to speed up as HEPA filters get dirty
and PC2 Rooms are not sealed.
• Light load chillers are selected with compressors larger than the smallest compressor on
the duty chiller.
• Buffer Tanks are not installed or are too small on chilled water systems
 So what are the most common problems ACS are finding
with systems that we go to commission? Cont’d

• Headers or Heat Separating Buffer Tanks are piped incorrectly.

• Cooling tower Nozzles are not selected correctly.
• Cooling towers have incorrectly size balancing lines.
• Cooling/Heating Coils are too close to each other in de-humidification applications.
• Air distribution is not even, in particular the areas with ceiling based return air, are over
heating, stratification is occurring, and they are not warming up.
 DX A/C Systems are oversized and cannot control evenly and
effectively

• An over sized DX unit is just as bad as an undersized DX unit.

• Oversized single compressor or dual compressor units will short cycle.
• They will over cool & over heat, dump cold air or stratify hot air and will make the
occupants very unhappy.
• As much as everyone will try and blame the BMS there is nothing we can do with an
oversized unit to stop complaints, unless the units were selected with variable or
digital Scroll compressors and still they, need to be sized correctly.

Note we have done some

projects with some Temperzone
digital scrolls selected correctly and
we can control the condensation
levels on test tubes in laboratories.
 Pumping equipment is sized so marginally that motors fall
off their curves

• Designers fall for this all the time.

• It just seems that not enough time is being given to working out the actual
Best Efficiency Point and too many jobs are designed so marginally or using
exactly what was specified, that we are hitting the run-out point where we
are off the curve.

 The wrong Pump size.

 Will reduce the project efficiency.
 Slow down commissioning.
 Cost Money to fix.
 Fans are already at 100% speed and have no room to speed
up as HEPA filters get dirty and PC2 Rooms are not sealed

• Fans like pumps need to be sized with spare capacity, so be proactive and
size with some spare.
• Be astute get on the builders early, and warn them that they need to seal
the space, door frames, GPOs and light fittings.
• Too much time is being lost during commissioning because people just are
not aware how these areas react.
• This adds cost to everyone involved.
 Light load chillers are selected with compressors larger
than the smallest compressor on the Duty Chiller.

• We now have quite a few projects where this has

happened, and it is not a good outcome.
• We have seen chiller providers even quote jobs this
way.
• Not enough engineering is being done. Light Load Chiller
• Price base decisions are made with out checking.
• Basically the client ends up purchasing an oversized
backup machine that will not ever run as intended, and
save energy.
• So check the supplier's selections.
• Run the compressor sizing past the controls engineer
who is going to write staging for strategy for the
chillers. Duty Chiller
 Buffer Tanks are not installed or are too small on Chilled
Water Systems

• A buffer tank is not a Minimum

volume tank so do not get the 2
confused.
• Minimum Volume is the amount,
set by the manufacturer, that a
chiller needs to pass to achieve its
Minimum on cycle time with out
faulting.
• Where as a buffer tank must be
sized to maintain the system
Leaving Water Temperature when
ever the chiller cycles off to
maintain and protect the load.
On Primary Only Systems the Buffer Tank
should be located before the pump and chiller.
 Buffer Tanks in Primary Secondary Systems

• On Primary / Secondary Chilled water systems, the buffer tank must be located in
the decoupling line to work correctly.
• It is normally installed to ride out staging times between chillers starting and
stopping.
 Sizing Buffer Tanks on Chilled Water Systems

• If your system flow is 1 LPS and your

chiller cycles off for 15 minutes.
• Your Buffer Tank must be
• 15Min x 60 Sec x 1 LPS = 900 Litres.
• Any smaller and you will loose control of
the system when the chiller cycles off
and effect the load.
• Not good when your system is serving a
Hospital MRI Machine.
• So ask the supplier what is the
maximum starts per hour for the chiller
and work out the minimum off time to
be applied to size an appropriate tank.
 Heat separating Buffer Tanks piped incorrectly

• This problem is surprising as it is so basic but still gets piped incorrectly.

• It is so simple heat rises and cold sinks.
• Deliver the heat from the source to the top.
• Take the heat from the top to the Load.
• Deliver the cold return from the load to the bottom.
• Pull from the bottom back to the heat source.
• The opposite for Cooling.
• Simple Physics.
• But the industry still gets it wrong.
 Cooling separating Tank piped incorrectly

• The CHW is going in and out too close together, and field supply
is not being taken from the cold bottom of the tank.
• This system did not deliver all of the cold water to the field.
• The final modifications were at great cost, and ensured that
cold went IN and OUT at the bottom, and warm went back to
the tank and back to the chiller from the TOP.
• Please don’t get it wrong.
 Primary / Secondary Headers Piped Incorrectly

• This header is piped correctly and will commission very well.

• These systems can be initially commissioned without the BMS controls even being ready.

 The water mixes evenly from the

chillers to the field.
 It has TD and Magnetic flow meters
for monitoring COP and flow in the
primary, and energy and flow in the
secondary.
 All pumps are variable.
 You can achieve positive primary
flow by measuring the °C from
decoupling sensor to ensure you are
sending all the cold leaving directly
to the field.
 It has a turbulator on the return to
allow even mixing back to the
chillers.
 It ticks all the boxes.
 Primary / Secondary Headers Piped Incorrectly

• Example 1 Primary Secondary Header that is difficult to commission.

 With one chiller

running.
 The water mixes
Unevenly from the
Chiller during load up
and supplies half the
field with cold water.
 Building control is lost
during staging and will
take time to recover.
 Primary / Secondary Headers Piped Incorrectly

• Example 2 Primary Secondary Header that is difficult to commission.

 The secondary return

does not go through a
turbulator.
 The water mixes
Unevenly from the field.
 The Chillers will always
load unevenly unless
the system is at full
capacity.
 Primary / Secondary Headers Piped Incorrectly

• Example 3 Primary Secondary Header that is difficult to commission.

 The second chiller some

times feeds on to itself with
out having a chance of
mixing with the first chiller.
 The first chiller receives all
of the load from the field.
 Unless the system is at full
capacity the Chillers will
load unevenly.
 Primary / Secondary Header Piped Correctly

• Primary Secondary CHW Systems with instruments, are good to commission and will
provide ongoing energy savings.

 In a correctly installed and

designed, low loss primary /
secondary common coupled
header.
 You do not have the induced
pressure drops.
 You can control the
equilibrium of flow and
temperature, in both the
primary and secondary piping
loops, to be only what is
required, and optimise the
building demands.
 When these systems are
piped correctly they
commission very quickly.
 Cooling Tower Nozzles are not selected correctly

• Often these days we like to couple the towers together and take advantage of low fan
speed with natural adiabatic cooling to save energy.
• When cooling tower nozzles are not sized correctly for low flow we get dry patches on
the tower fill material and the air bypasses the wet fill and the water does not get
cooled.
• Nozzle selection should be designed to cope with low to maximum flow to allow full
tower optimization and commissioning.
 Cooling Towers have an incorrectly sized balancing line

• Although system balance valves may be fitted to multiple tower returns, these rarely are so
precise that water returns are evenly balanced to all towers under all operating conditions.
• The result is excessive water may return to one tower, leading to that tower’s basin
overflowing, while the other tower basin may be depleted and start to draw in air to its
pump suction.
• Because the towers rely on gravity and have little head, the balance lines need to be large
or oversized.
• We are often told to put isolation valves on the tower discharge lines, but this limits the
ability to even out basin temperatures, group operate the towers and adds another point of
failure.
• Why use the controls to fix hydraulic issues that can be corrected by good design.
 Cooling/Heating Coils are too close to each other in de-
humidification applications
• Too often we are finding that incorrect selections are being made for
dehumidification applications.
• I have been involved in several jobs now, and when we go to commission the
dehumidification control, we find the cooling coil is often too close to the
heating coil.
• If the heating coil is going to warm the cooling coil by either conduction or
radiated heat, you limit the ability to reach dew point and dehumidify.
• You need distance between the coils for any such system to work.
• The coil arrangement needs the room for the condensate to settle and for heat
not to be transmitted back into the cooling coil.
• Check what arrangement you are getting before you install?
 Air distribution is not even, in particular areas with ceiling-
based return air, are over heating, stratification is occurring,
and they are not warming up
• If you deliver air at 8 to 10°C hotter than space temperature, to a room with
a ceiling return air path, even with the best diffusion, the air will tend to
stratify, and you will loose a good percentage of the heat back out the
return air.
• Whenever the room is colder than the supply air, the supply air will be
buoyant and will rise after delivery.
• Cooler warm supply air will have more room penetration and heat the space
better and faster.
• Typically 28°C to 30°C air will work better for a 22.5°C Setpoint.
• Leaving Air sensors following any heating coil are essential for better
control.
 ANALYTICS / COMMISSIONING

• Analytics is the hot topic at the moment in regard to BMS systems and Fine Tuning
Mechanical Plant.
• Basically as we see it Analytic Rules are applied to a BMS system to try and find
problems that could be causing plant to run incorrectly or could be wasting energy.
• Analytics come in two forms.
– Part of a BMS system either built in, or an add on to the main BMS software.
– Independent to the BMS operated by a 3rd party and the reads information from a
BMS system using BACnet High Level Interface protocol, or from trend information
written to a separate Windows SQL Server.
– There are a lot of people getting into this you would have heard or seen the term,
BIG DATA.
 When coupled with Cloud Storage this can be a powerful tool.
 ANALYTICS / COMMISSIONING

• Initially we were against independent Analytics companies attaching themselves

to our BMS systems.
• We had the attitude that, “what are they going to find if we have set it up
properly in the first place”.
• And this can be true, BUT it was not until an INDEPENDANT Analytics company
put their system on some of our sites and some of our oppositions sites that the
real picture came in to play.
• Our BMS sites came up almost clean.
• When the Oppositions BMS site did not.
• Further the Analytics started confirming some of the mechanical issues that we
had also highlighted on these sites.
• We concluded 3rd party Data Analytics can find BMS and Mechanical faults quite
well.
 ANALYTICS / COMMISSIONING

 We feel analytics in some form will keep moving forward with BMS systems.
 Clients may choose to enter into long term analytics contracts with either there trusted
incumbent BMS contractors or select an Independent analytics contractor.
 The more Data that is brought into a BMS system the more benefit analytics will be to
the client.
 You can’t analyse what is not measured.
 Some essential items to be measured for analytics are proving to be.
 Leaving Air Sensors.

 Multi function meters, the more the better.

 Temperature difference and flow on CHW and HW systems to calculate Coefficients

of performance COP.
 CO2 and air quality Levels.

 Even Humidity
 ANALYTICS AS A COMMISSIONING TOOL

• When BMS systems are installed on a budget you only get what you pay for.
• The same with Mechanical systems.
• We know of at least 3 significant buildings, in Adelaide, where we have been asked to
review an oppositions BMS, that has been deemed uncommissioned.
• How does this happen, I think we know?
– They were screwed to a ridiculous price,
– The project was design and construct with impossible deadlines.
– The building was occupied before the commissioning was fully finished, access
became difficult
– The list goes on.
• The fact is we were smashed price wise, on all of these building at tender, and I truly
believe this is because we allowed more hours to commission.
• The industry has tried to prevent this from happening by adding the independent
commissioning agent, and in some cases this has been very successful.
 ANALYTICS AS A COMMISSIONING TOOL

• We think however the independent commissioning process could be taken a

step further by Introducing the Independent commissioning Analytics Agent.
– Hired by the client and engaged at the beginning of the design period.
– Oversees the way the building must perform.
– Works with the Mechanical and BMS contractors during design.
– Activates a third party analytics package at practical completion.
– Highlights what is not operating correctly or needs tunning during the
defects liability period.
 A BMS contractor that always allows the instruments and hours to commission
correctly, will have no problem working with this.
 A BMS contractor who does not allow the instruments and hours, as a result of
this process, will soon start allowing to do so.
 It is very important that this Agent is not working for the Managing contractor,
the Mechanical contractor or the BMS contractor.
 They work for the Client to make sure the system is what was the Client paid
for and is commissioned as intended.
 SUMMARY

 If you coordinated the trades and make sure what you are installing is
engineered to work, the project will commission quicker.
• Take more time to review plant that is selected that is application specific and
think about the ongoing operation and commissioning.
• Data Analytics is the way of the future and we believe if applied during
construction will improve the whole industry to a level where projects are
commissioned correctly.
 MECHANICAL SERVICES COMMISSIONING

PROCESS

CHALLENGES

AND LESSONS LEARNT

Alek Wcislo
 PRESENTATION OVERVIEW

• WHAT IS MECHANICAL SERVICES COMMISSIONING

• COMMISSIONING STAGES

PLANNING EXECUTION AND DELIVERABLES

• CHALLENGES

• LESSONS LEARNT
 WHAT IS MECHANICAL SERVICES COMMISSIONING

HVAC Commissioning by ASHRAE definition

is a quality process focused on enhancing the delivery of a project.

The process focuses upon verifying and documenting that the facility and all of its
systems and assemblies are planned, designed, installed, tested, operated, and
maintained to meet the Owner's Project Requirements.

COMMISSIONING THEN AND TODAY…

• Air and Water Balance • Early planning
• Air/Water Balance Sheets • More methodical
• ICA
• Green Star and NABERS
• Complete as installed documentation
• Handover
 WHAT IS MECHANICAL SERVICES COMMISSIONING

… and Who and Why benefits from Commissioning…

Building Owner ? • Comprehensive TAB of equipment

• Complete commissioning documentation
• Building operation to intended design
• Functionality testing of equipment and controls
• Occupant’s comfort conditions
• Problems identified early and rectified
• Improved building efficiency
• Lower maintenance cost

Contractor ? • Fewer call backs

• Customer satisfaction, trust and confidence
• Service DLP within budget

Builder ? • Ability to deliver complete project to customer

Community ? • Better system efficiency

• Lower green gas emission
 WHAT IS MECHANICAL SERVICES COMMISSIONING

Three types of Commissioning

Initial Commissioning, occurs during

construction of a new building or on a
new HVAC system within an existing
building.

Retro-commissioning commissioning focused

on fixing notorious problems of existing
buildings, improving efficiency of plant and
reducing running costs

Re-commissioning is commissioning of HVAC systems

that were already commissioned at construction but
the owner wants to verify, improve and document
their performance
 WHAT IS MECHANICAL SERVICES COMMISSIONING
… and why NEBB?
• Consultant specified NEBB commissioning
• Commissioning conducted as per NEBB
or eg. CIBSE requirements
• Proven “in action” commissioning
procedures
• Calibrated instrumentation and
equipment
• NEBB technicians undergo continuous
training
• Networking
NEBB Australia, working under
licence from NEBB USA is an
organisation dedicated to the
implementation and promotion of
established industry standards,
procedures and specifications for
work in the various disciplines
related to environmental systems.
Established in 2006 has now over
140 NEBB Professionals and
Technicians in Australia and New
Zealand
 COMMISSIONING PROCESS

• COMMISSIONING PRELIMINARIES

• PRECOMMISSIONING

• ELEMANTAL COMMISSIONING

• SYSTEM COMMISSIONING

• FUNCTIONAL AND PERFORMANCE TEST

• PROJECT HANDOVER
 COMMISSIONING PROCESS

PRELIMINARIES
RESOURCES

• Commissioning Team – Internal e.g.

water balance and air balance teams,
MechElec and BMS
• Commissioning Team – External e.g.
water treatment, HEPA Filters, Thermal
Plant… non-HVAC Systems…
DOCUMENTATION

• Mechanical Specification
• Standards and Regulations
• For Construction Drawings, Schematics
• BMS Functional Description
• Commissioning Procedures - Project Specific
• Commissioning SWMSs – Project Specific
• Equipment Technical Data, fan/pump curves etc
• Fire Matrix
• Commissioning Report Proformas
• COMMISSIONING PLAN !!!
 COMMISSIONING PROCESS

COMMISSIONING EQUIPMENT AND INSTRUMENTATION

• Duct Air Leakage Test Rig

• TAB Instrumentation Air and Water

• Temperature and Humidity

• Other as required (refrigeration, rotation, sound meter…)

• CALIBRATION CERTIFICATES !!!…

 COMMISSIONING PROCESS

PRECOMMISSIONING

• CONSTRUCTION ITPs – construction team

• CHW and HHW PIPE PRESSURE TEST – HVAC plumbers)

• DALT – DUCT AIR LEAKAGE TESTING

• EQUIPMENT PRE-COMMISSIONING

• AIR DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM PRECOMMISSIONING

• WATER SYSTEM PRECOMMISSIONING

• CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
• Builders Works Complete – zone safe to work in
• MSSBs Commissioned and COC-ed
• Mechanical Works (ductwork, air diffusion installed, piping, equipment installed
• Control Valves, Dampers Point to Point Tested
 COMMISSIONING PROCESS

DALT
• Duct Leakage impacts on:
• energy efficiency
• greenhouse gas emission
• system performance
• commissioning progress

• AS 4254.2:2012 Testing of
systems >3000 L/s is mandatory

• Minimum of 10% of duct systems to be tested

• Testing involves construction and commissioning teams

• Test Equipment and Instrumentation

• Recent projects prove rising awareness among installers and

improved installation standards
 COMMISSIONING PROCESS

ELEMENTAL COMMISSIONING
• AHUs, FCUs, Fans, Evap. Coolers etc…
Initial Set-up and Start-up

• Pumps, Make-up units, VSDs, Initial Set-up and Start-up

• Thermal Plant: Chillers, HHWUs, Heat Exchangers

• DX Systems

• Duct Heater Banks, Humidifiers

• Non-HVAC Plant e.g. Fume Cupboards, CRAC Units, HEPA filters

• Cool Rooms, Cold Rooms, Freezer Rooms

 COMMISSIONING PROCESS
SYSTEM COMMISSIONING
• Air Balance
• Commissioning procedure
customised and project specific
• Water Balance
• Commissioning procedure customised
and project specific
• Thermal Plant Integration
• Involves Mechanical Services, BMS and
Plant Commissioning Crew
• Non-HVAC Systems
• Compressed Air and Lab Gases
• Fume Cupboards

• Fire/Smoke Management Systems

• AHU/Fans Plant and Systems
• Stair Press
• Smoke Exhaust
• Smoke Dampers
 COMMISSIONING PROCESS

FUNCTIONAL AND PERFORMANCE TESTS

• Smoke/Fire Management System Commissioning

• Thermal Plant Functional and Performance Testing

• Air and Water Distribution Systems

• System optimisation
• Operating Set Points

• System Automation and Tuning

• Trendlogs
 COMMISSIONING PROCESS

PROJECT HANDOVER

• Plant and Systems Statutory Certification

• Chillers, Air/Gas Receiver: Pressure Vessels
• HHWUs and Boilers: appl. Type “B”
• NATA Certification: HEPAs, Fume Cupboards
• Electrical and Gas COCs

• Final Witnessing

• System Monitoring and Data Logging

• Handover Training

• O&M manuals
 COMMISSIONING PROCESS
COMMISSIONING FLOW DIAGRAM - sample
 CHALLENGES

FIRE/SMOKE MODE COMMISSIONING

• Significant mile-stone in commissioning process

• From simple Fire Shutdown to Complex Fire/Smoke Management System Commissioning

• Requires coordinated planning and involves many trades

• Fire Matrix
• Fire-Mechanical Services-BMS Interface Testing
• Functional Testing (Fire Matrix)
• Operation of non-HVAC plant and equipment (e.g. Smoke Curtins, gas shutdown etc…)
• Performance Testing
• Stair Press Systems,
• Smoke Exhaust Systems,
• Operation of AHUs/Fans etc…

• Certificate of Occupancy depends on Fire/Smoke Management System Commissioning

• Very challenging… physically and mentally

 CHALLENGES

CONSOLIDATED FUNCTIONAL COMMISSIONING

• Close cooperation with BMS contractor

• Needs development of Specific

Functional Test Schedule

• At the end of construction process… no time

allocated by builder

• Often “dragged over” PC date into DLP

• … and how important it is for the building

owner to take over functionally tested
HVAC systems?
 CHALLENGES

MANAGEMENT ISSUES
• For Construction documentation not followed by subcontractors
• Working of superseded drawings, equipment schedules…
• Electrician installed wrong size O/Ls, VSDs…
• BMS contractor selected wrong control valves…
• ITPs not followed

• Poor communication between trades

• Duct contractor poorly managed e.g. balancing to start now and no registers fitted

• PtoP testing incomplete

• No time for proper functional/performance commissioning

• Fire testing poorly coordinated

 CHALLENGES

INSTALLATION ISSUS

• ACCESS • ACCESS • ACCESS

• Equipment, dampers, valves…

• Incomplete building and HVAC works

• Poor Workmanship
• Duct joints leaking
• Plastic foil left in ductwork
• Crossovers….Most Notorious
• Pipes
• Ducts
• Control and/or Balancing Valves installed back to front
• Temperature Sensors
• VRF Systems – Piping and Controls Wiring

• CTRL/Balancing Valves
• not enough straight pipe up/downflow
• no ID Tags, poor access to binders
 CHALLENGES
DESIGN/ENGINEERING ISSUES

CHW-HHW-CW SYSTEMS

• Undersized expansion vessels –

excessive system static pressure

• Undersized by-pass valve, or oversized without

balancing valve

• No Low Load Chiller

• CHW Loop – insufficient loop volume, no

buffer tank… chiller will short-cycle

• Buffer Tank – no bypass installed

 CHALLENGES
DESIGN/ENGINEERING ISSUES

CHW-HHW-CW SYSTEMS

• STAD-STAF valves oversized – line size – need

to be engineered

• PICC Valves selected at near max

setting – no margin left

• CTRL Valves kv – select 25mm valve…

• CHW System – how to control

Pump Speed and By-Pass Valve ?
 CHALLENGES
DESIGN/ENGINEERING ISSUES

AIR DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS

• No branch dampers

• VAV registers used in constant flow systems

• Different type registers make balancing difficult

• Swirl diffusers, adj. geometry diffusers - wrong selection,

installed incorrectly causing noise, draft…

• Fire dampers – curtain in flat ducts – restricts flow

• FCUs with V-belts in ceiling space – not a great

idea

• Flow Control Air Valves – selected with

small margin
 CHALLENGES
DESIGN/ENGINEERING ISSUES

AIR DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS

• Fans - poor inlet conditions

• AHUs with Plug Fans

• Fan Effect no allowance for
pressure drop
• Duty stand-by
• No manual 0-10 V signal

• FCUs sized for Cooling with excess AirFlow

• AHUs with adjustable pulleys and VSDs ???

• Mission Impossible Ductwork

 CHALLENGES

DESIGN/ENGINEERING ISSUES

AIR DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS

• R/A Path not though of…

• Undersized Flex/cushion heads

• Balancing Damper installed in cushion head

• Undersized O/A duct not picked at in-house engineering

• Fan Assisted or Not - O/A path

 LESSONS LEARNT

• Most of those issues are PREVENTABLE

• Ensure ALL subcontractors working of up to date drawings, equipment selections…

• Manage regular commissioning meeting

• Early involvement; eg examination of for construction documentation, access…

• Commissioning Crew to start on site Not Too Early Not Too Late

• Push PMs to execute ITPs

• Enforce DALT testing, duct risers in particular

• Pre-commissioning is vital to successful outcome

 LESSONS LEARNT

• Fire Mode Test Coordination needs to start early and involve ALL participants

• Access to BMS speeds up commissioning process eg. VAV boxes

• CW system commissioning can start only when Water Treatment is available

• VRF System – Commission ONE at a time

• By-Pass Valve – install away from chillers

• Air/Dirt Separators seem like a good idea

• Enforce Cleaning Strainers

• Suction diffusers – work well, remove fine mesh after preclean

Thank you for your attention