My doubt is if it´s possible to Certificate a building with the Operation and Maintenance Manual made by the CxA, or if it´s needed to wait the 10 months required for the Enhanced Commissioning.
Would someone help me with this?
Thank you.
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Susann Geithner
PrincipalEmerald Built Environments
1297 thumbs up
August 18, 2011 - 3:19 pm
You don't have to wait till the review after 8-10 months. You can even submit for certification with the commissioning report still in progress. However you will have to provide a contract showing that you have contracted the CxA to do the work and the reviewer might asked for the completed commissioning report in between the reviews.
Shenhao Li
Atkins7 thumbs up
January 20, 2014 - 5:48 am
If owner's staff become the CxA of one project, how to prepare contract between them, since the requirement of Upload EAc2-2. Provide the contract between owner and CxA ensuring CxA involvement post-construction
Scott Bowman
LEED FellowIntegrated Design + Energy Advisors, LLC
LEEDuser Expert
519 thumbs up
January 21, 2014 - 9:08 am
That is not a problem, as the Owner (as long as they have the required qualifications) can be the CxA. I would upload a letter from the Owner indicating the staff that will be doing the 10 month review instead of a contract.
Mauricio Ramirez
34 thumbs up
May 28, 2014 - 5:54 pm
Hello Scott
I've just received a LEED Preliminary Review from my CI-2009 Project. In this case the Owner has designed an in-house CxA to make the Commissioning for Fundamental and Enhanced Scope. The Owner is a construction company, so they have in their staff many engineers with experience in Commissioning. The CxA is not part of the project team, his unique responsibility to the project is doing the Comm. project. In my submittal I add a letter signed by the CxA to the Owner in which they submit the final commissioning report, point out the open issues and states the current status of the systems. In this letter the CxA already indicates that the seasonal testing will be made and actually commits to do that in August with the results of the Comfor survey. However, in my review, they say that I need to add a contract to ensure post-occupation activities. There is no Comm. contract as it is a work assigned internally by his boss... So, what do you recommend to answer... attach an internal work order or something like that? Any comment will help! Thanks!
Scott Bowman
LEED FellowIntegrated Design + Energy Advisors, LLC
LEEDuser Expert
519 thumbs up
May 29, 2014 - 9:06 am
Mauricio;
I have two suggestions. First, email the review team and repeat the information in your post about the relationship. My guess is there was nothing uploaded in that box, so you got a comment. That might get it resolved.
Second, and what I tell teams to do, is to upload a letter from the owner that states internal commitment of the company to this effort, what the scope is that will be done, and when. Not a contract, but it does commit the owner to that action and comes from management instead of the CxA.
This is a good tactic on any credit that you are doing something a little out of the norm. Always tell the reviewers what is being done, and always submit something in any spot that requires it, even a simple document saying that something “does not apply in this case because”…and then lay out why.
Mauricio Ramirez
34 thumbs up
May 29, 2014 - 9:13 pm
Thanks for your quite quick response. I'm doing that.
I already know the tip that we shouldn't leave any box empty, so instead of the contract I put the commitment from the CxA. But you're right it will be stronger if I put something from not from myself as Owner Primary contact but actually a letter from the highest position in the Office Management, and look what happens.
I let you know what the reviewers final comment is! Thanks.. Your input is really helpful!