Technical Cx - This is the Way

Technical Commissioning involves your Cx Agent being ON-SITE with their own NEBB-certified and calibrated instruments to verify what your equipment is doing now and if that meets specification and design-intent.

Andy Cooper - another day of working from a mechanical room - not his comfy office chair.

You want your Cx Agent in the room with your equipment, not remoted-in, not relying on someone else completing the checks and tests.

Too many issues are missed if we don't get on-site to observe your equipment ourselves. Is the Cx Agent you are hiring going to use this thorough on-site technical approach? Or are they going to use a 'process' approach?

The process approach involves relying on other contractors to complete checks and tests. This defeats the purpose of commissioning being a 3rd-party to verify your systems are working as intended.

The exact approach to testing, including number of site visits should be specified in a proposal from a Cx firm, and in the contract documents. Remote log-ins to check on systems should only ever be in addition to onsite verifications by your Cx team.

Questions to ask potential Cx Firms:

• How many times will you be onsite during construction, acceptance, and warranty phases?

• How many days total do you anticipate on-site testing to take?

• Are you completing any functional tests remotely? (the answer should be 'no'!)

• Do you use calibration-verified NEBB-certified testing equipment? (The answer should be 'yes'!)

• Who will be onsite performing testing and how much experience do they have? Can you GUARANTEE it will be the experienced agent conducting tests?

  
  

Andy Cooper - observing equipment response in person, not from the comfort of his office.