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NC-v4 EAc1:Enhanced commissioning

What is Required to become a CxA

Hello, I have a little experience with performing commissioning on mechanical and electrical systems in buildings, but never on a LEED project.  I've read that:

"The CxA must have documented commissioning process experience on at least two building projects with a similar scope of work. The experience must extend from early design phase through at least 10 months of occupancy"

Can anyone shed some light on how the process works to "prove" you have the required experience?  What is this "documentation" that is being referred to in the text above?  Thougths?

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Scott Bowman
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Thu, 03/15/2018 - 17:06

There are a lot of requirements in LEED that are not fully documented with a submission but could be asked for in a review. The qualifications of a CxA is one of them. There are some global requirements within the standard that are handled and confirmed by the main contact of a design team making the LEED submittal which states the design team professionals will comply with the requirements whether or not it is actually documented. The way I have handled this is to make sure that I could easily show someone was involved in a Cx project through a report where their name would be prominent for the testing, meetings, development, etc. That does not mean that they had to be the CxA (in charge). We developed people through different tasks they would do for a project and then they would advance to being the CxA. If we had ever been questioned in review comments, showing experience would have been easy. The only documentation you provide initially is a statement by the CxA with a couple of projects listed. Pretty much the honor system really.

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