Enhanced Commissioning

James Thornton

Project Manager, Commissioning Group

ccrd

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June 30, 2010

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Tristan Roberts

Representative

Vermont House of Representatives

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Fri, 07/02/2010 - 02:49

James, I would think of enhanced Cx as including or subsuming fundamental Cx, so the fee quoted is for enhanced, but understand that it includes the key components of fundamental. The fee was found in a national study—I don't know which regions it covered.Your comment on functional testing is a great one and a fair critique of the language we chose to use. I will modify it to be more nuanced.

James Thornton

Project Manager, Commissioning Group

ccrd

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Mon, 07/05/2010 - 22:09

Tristan, Thank you for your response. I appreciate the clarification. We usually structure our fee proposals listing the LEED Fundamental Cx Services as a separate set of services from Enhanced Cx so the owner or architect understands he is receiving two distinctly different set of services. Depending upon the nature of the proposal request, we either provide a lump sum for both, or we provide separate pricing. Some owners do not understand the value of Enhanced Cx and just want what satisfies the LEED Cx prerequisite.