Adapting the commissioning process in d-b projects is easy if everyone is on the same page.
Up until now, commissioning has been defined, applied, and evaluated, for the most part, for very traditional design-bid-build construction projects. These are projects where there is a clear differentiation between the designers (architects and engineers) and the builders (contractors) and between the design phase and the construction phase.
Over the past several years, for various reasons, the design-build (D-B) project delivery method has become more popular and, in fact, actually in vogue. Facility owners who wouldn’t consider such an approach ten years ago (including the federal government) are now open to trying a D-B approach. Does the commissioning process have a place in a D-B project? If so, how?