DESIGN
CONSTRUCTION
PLANNING
POST-CONSTRUCTION
design st age
Design Stage commissioning activities serve to assure that the Owner's Project
Requirements for items such as energy efficiency, sustainability, indoor environ-
mental quality, fire protection & life safety, etc. are sufficiently defined and
adequately & accurately reflected in the contract documents. The Design Stage
is the Commissioning Team's opportunity to assure that building systems and
Incorporate Commissioning
into A/E & CM Scope of
assemblies as designed will function according to user expectations. Further,
Services
specific tests and procedures designed to verify the performance of systems and
Retain Commissioning Agent
assemblies are developed and incorporated into the contract documents.
Services
Review Owner's Project Re-
Incorporate Commissioning into A/E & CM Scope of Services
quirements & Basis of Design
Concept, DD and CD Design
GSA commissioning activities may be more rigorous than A/Es and CMs typically
Reviews
include in their scope of services. Design, Construction & Post-Construction
Update/Refine Commissioning
Plan
commissioning activities must be defined and written into the Architect/Engineer
Develop Commissioning
and Construction Manager scopes of work and executed contracts.
Specifications
By this stage of project development, the GSA Project Manager must have an
Contact Documents Aligned
awareness of how commissioning services will be delivered. GSA's preferred
with Owner's Project
method for engaging a Commissioning Agent is to arrange for the Construction
Requirements
Manager to contract directly with a Commissioning Agent, however there will be
exceptions based on project specific drivers. Should the project team determine
that the CM will contract the commissioning agent, this must be written into the
GSA PM Lead
CxTeam Support
CM's scope of work.
CxA Lead
CxTeam Support
Commissioning services for Design and Construction Management profes-
Customer Agency
sionals shall minimally include, but are not limited to the items listed on the
Lead
following page.
Final Phase
Step
building commissioning
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process
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