My client was late in committing to LEED for an interior renovation, so is this prerequisite achievable if commissioning was not incorporated into the project until the construction phase? Also, can a Cx be brought into a project during the bidding phase thru completion and still qualify for this prerequisite?
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Jan Wei
Director of Commissioning & Critical SystemEdwards & Zuck
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February 19, 2011 - 9:55 am
The practical situation is that the GCBI is a little lenient on the timing of this prerequisite credit. Usually they are willing to accept this prerequisite under certain conditions 1) The project needs to be early in the construction phase (preferably during submittal review process). So the commissioning requirements and any recommendations from the CxA can be incorporated into the project. 2) The client and the project team needs to incorporate the commissioning requirements into the project specification (usually done as an addendum or bulletin), and implement the commissioning plan. Keep in mind that this typically is a change order to the client for the contractors to participate and implement commissioning effort. 3) The client and the project team needs to put together an Owner's Project Requirement, and Basis of Design (BoD) to be review and commented by the CxA. The owner and the project team needs to be willing to review CxA's comments and incorporate any changes that make would improve the operation and maintenance of the systems to be commissioned.