Here are six important goals, in no particular order, building owners, building managers, and facility managers will always want to achieve:
These are important goals, but they're not achievable without the contribution of third-party certified testing, adjusting, and balancing (TAB) firm. How so? The building industry has recognized third-party commissioning (Cx) is necessary to ensure the building owner’s building program will fulfill the project’s design intent document, but that is only the half of it. The Cx agent is responsible to monitor and report on the HVAC building systems and confirm the engineer’s design criteria and the contractor’s installation have met the contract document compliance. However, Cx agents overseeing of the equipment/system startup and individual systems' automatic control demonstrations often fall short of delivering a complete HVAC system performance verification.