I was added to the project after construction due to staffing changes. An OPR was never produced. The design meets and exceeds the owner's goals and commissioning has been completed. The CxA was on board at 50% DD and their comments were addressed by the design team. It seems that the intent of the prerequisite was met, but an actual OPR was not produced? Any ideas on how to adress this within the credit form? Do I have the owner not check the boxes and attach a document expalining the circumstance?
Thanks
Scott Bowman
LEED FellowIntegrated Design + Energy Advisors, LLC
LEEDuser Expert
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January 23, 2013 - 11:56 am
Unfortunately this occurs all too often. The OPR and BOD seem to be forgotten in the early part of the project, and yet are so important in establishing the sustainability expectations of the owner. I have written an article for a risk control group that is part of our professional liability insurer promoting well written and communicated OPR and BOD as not just part of the process, but a vital risk management tool.
Enough lecture, that is now what you came here for! I feel that you need to work with the owner to “recreate” the OPR based on the original project program and materials communicated early in the project. The owner should be the author of this document, but we often help our clients develop this based on information that was used early in the project and put it into a form that can be called an OPR. We have done this on projects where fundamental commissioning was brought on quite late, or on a few project where one of the early Action Items was that no OPR existed.