September 9, 2002—The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) says that its proposed Guideline 0P, The Commissioning Process, would provide a quality delivery process for constructed projects and buildings to assist with carrying the owner’s project requirements from pre-design through one or more years of occupancy.
The proposed guideline opened for public comment on Aug. 9. The review will remain open until Sept. 23, 2002.
The guideline’s objectives are to:
- Clearly document the owner’s project requirements;
- Provide documentation and tools to improve the quality of deliverables;
- Verify and document that systems and assemblies perform according to the owner’s project requirements;
- Verify that operation and maintenance personnel and occupants are properly trained;
- Provide a uniform and effective process for delivery of construction projects;
- Deliver buildings and construction projects that meet the owner’s needs at the time of completion;
- Implement statistical quality-verification practices; and
- Verify proper coordination among systems and assemblies, and between all contractors, sub-contractors, vendors, and manufacturers of furnished equipment and assemblies.
Once approved, the guideline also will be used by the National Institute for Building Sciences as its Total Building Commissioning Process Guideline.
An electronic draft of ASHRAE Guideline 0P is available on the organization’ s Web site.
