Building Commissioning in Dallas-Fort Worth
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The building commissioning process (CxP) ensures we meet your expectations throughout your project.
McCownGordon strongly advocates incorporating commissioning into your project, citing its diverse benefits and swift payback timelines. CxP verifies and documents the operational status of systems to align with owner expectations. There are six primary types of commissioning: New Building Commissioning, Re/Existing Building Commissioning, Retro/Existing Building Commissioning, Monitoring-Based Commissioning, Building Enclosure Commissioning, and Building Assessments.Â
NEW BUILDING COMMISSIONING
New building commissioning is a quality assurance procedure for recently constructed structures. It involves a methodical process to verify that all building systems, including electrical, plumbing, heating, and ventilation, function as planned prior to occupancy. The objective is to ensure the efficient, safe, and design-aligned operation of the building.
RETRO/EXISTING BUILDING COMMISSIONING
Addressing older structures makes retro/existing building commissioning essential. It requires a thorough assessment of the performance of an already-existing building to pinpoint potential areas for enhancement. This may involve improving energy efficiency, elevating occupant comfort, and lowering operational expenses. Essentially, it resembles a renovation initiative, but with a focus on enhancing the building’s operational efficiency.
MONITORING-BASED COMMISSIONING
Taking a proactive stance on building maintenance, monitoring-based commissioning utilizes advanced technology for continuous surveillance of diverse building systems, such as HVAC and lighting. Alerts are triggered by any deviations from expected performance, facilitating prompt intervention to avert issues and enhance resource efficiency. It can be likened to real-time diagnostics for your building’s well-being. Additionally, this approach can be complemented by optimization, wherein building setpoints, schedules, and sequence of operations are finely tuned to align with the building’s characteristics.
BUILDING ASSESSMENTS
Delivering a comprehensive perspective on your building’s state, our expert team assesses the optimal construction process. Conducting a Building Assessment, we scrutinize the building’s condition and systems to gauge risk and overall performance. With a strong emphasis on quality, we early assess the building and site during preconstruction to minimize the environmental footprint of practices and materials, concentrating on life cycle assessments (LCA).
Utilizing tools like Sefaira and our in-house LCA tool, we swiftly analyze energy consumption against utility, maintenance, and replacement costs, presenting our clients with the most sustainable choice.
Enclosure Commissioning
Building Enclosure Commissioning (BECx) is a quality assurance procedure aimed at verifying that building envelope components such as roofs and windows are properly designed and installed to meet performance goals, thereby improving durability and energy efficiency. This process is essential for minimizing air and water leaks, enhancing thermal insulation, and boosting occupant comfort.
Re-Commissioning
Re-Cx, or Re-Commissioning, involves assessing and enhancing a building’s existing systems to maintain or boost operational performance. Unlike RCx, which targets previously uncommissioned structures, Re-Cx focuses on those that were once commissioned but have since experienced drift due to usage changes, altered schedules, or wear over time. The goal is to realign systems with current needs and original design intent.
Benefits of Commissioning
Energy Savings
- Projects with a comprehensive commissioning approach have up to 5x savings of the projects not commissioned.
- Average savings of 75% of the original savings after 20 years.
- Value of energy savings ranges from $0.02-$0.19/SF
- Value of non-energy savings ranges from $0.23-$6.96/SF
- Average costs are 0.4% of total construction
Affordability + Additional Savings
CxP provides an average of 13 to 16% annual energy savings, 8 to 20% lower equipment maintenance costs, better equipment performance and better indoor air quality (IAQ). The average ROI for CxP ranges from 1.1 to 4.2 years—a strong return on your investment.
Reduces Maintenance + Future Costs
- Average owner maintenance costs of a commissioned building range between 18 to 20% less than a non-commissioned building.Â
- Between 46% and 62% of deficiencies identified during commissioning would manifest as higher repair/maintenance costs in the future.
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