Commissioning Elements of LEED

The Commissioning Process

Presenter Gilad Mail, PE, LEED AP
September 25, 2013

About Glumac

Established San Francisco office in 1971

Locations: San Francisco, Silicon Valley,
Sacramento, Seattle, Portland, Las Vegas,
Los Angeles, Irvine, and Shanghai
300+ Employees | Over 100 LEED APs
30 Commissioning Agents
Dedicated Mission Critical Department
Dick Glumac
Company Founder

SERVICES

Commissioning | Mechanical | Electrical |

Plumbing | Sustainable Design | Energy
Modeling | BIM, Revit, CFD Technology
Integration | Lighting Design

Agenda/Objectives

What is Mission Critical

Commissioning Process

Five Levels of Commissioning

Commissioning Tools

Mission Critical

Mission Critical

24 x 7 Operation
Impact to critical business operations
Potential for large economic losses
Potential for large disruption to customer or services

Types of Mission Critical Facilities

Data Centers
Central Plants
Pharmaceutical Research and Development
Biomedical Research and Development
Medical Facilities
Industrial Process Facilities

Why Commissioning

Occupant Comfort
Verify design intent achieved
Confirmation of equipment & system operation
Energy Efficiency
Verify inter-system operation: Elec Mech BMS
Verify ability to distribute power and cooling
Control automatic systems and controls
Verify component failure and system Fault Tolerance
Verify Failure Modes
PUE

Commissioning - Design Phase

Review
BOD/OPR

Design Review

Submittal Review

Develop
Commissioning
Specifications

Develop DRAFT
Commissioning
Plan

Commissioning
Kick off Meeting

Construction and Start-up Phase

Submittal
Review

Commissioning
Kick-Off
Meeting

Commissioning
Progress
Meetings

GC / Contractor
Progress
Meetings

Final
SU & Cx
Schedule

Controls
Pt to Pt &
Programming

Equipment
Checklists

Site
Observations

Final Functional
Test Procedures

Equipment
Start-up

Training Review

Preliminary O&M
Manuals

Construction
Complete

Commissioning and Validation Phase

Functional
Testing (L4)

Integrated
Systems
Testing (L5)

Issues
Resolution
Log

O&M
Manuals

Operations
Maintenance
(O&M) Training

Warranty
Information

Substantial
Completion

Owner
Occupancy

Project
Close - out

Post Occupancy/Warranty Phase

Seasonal
Testing

Final Cx Report

10-Month
Warranty
Meeting

Systems
Manual

Level 1 Commissioning

Level 1
Submittal Review
Factory Witness Testing

Level 2 Commissioning

Level 2
Equipment Installation
Pre Start-up Check-list

Level 3 Commissioning

Level 3
Component Start-up
Installation Verification

Level 4 Commissioning

Level 4
Systems Interface Testing
Functional Performance Testing

Level 5 Commissioning

Level 5
Integrated System Testing

Level 5 Commissioning

Post L5
Client Facilities Training
O&M
Close-out, final documentation
LEED certification

Commissioning Elements of LEED

OPR BOD Review

PEER Reviews

Commissioning Specification

Commissioning Plan

Issue Test Scripts

Commissioning Meetings

Develop an Issues Log

Perform Level 4, 5 Test Scripts

Final Documentation and

Training Reviews

Upload to GBC Website

Issue Final Reports

Warranty Review

Commissioning Tools - Cx Plan

Defined Roles and Responsibilities

Systems Commissioned

Commissioning Process

Commissioning Schedule

Expectations for pre-functional,

functional and integration testing

Commissioning Tools - Scheduling

Commissioning Tools - Tracking Spreadsheets

Commissioning Tools Functional Procedures

Commissioning Tools - Cx Issues Log