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Comprehensive Commissioning Benefits for Building Owners during Design, Construction, and Beyond
In February of 2013, the Port of Los Angeles (POLA) began construction of its very first LEED certified terminal building; the administration building for rear berths 136-139 TraPac terminal. POLA’s Board of Harbor Commissioners adopted a policy in 2007 that required all newly constructed buildings over 7,500 square feet to obtain LEED certification. LEED stands for leadership in energy and environmental design, and is a guideline by U.S. Green Building Council to promote sustainable building design and construction. This paper focuses on enhanced commissioning, one of the more important components of LEED for facility owners, designers, building systems engineers, and tenants. Owners and tenants alike want comfortable indoor environments with building systems that operate efficiently, limit maintenance, and ultimately help foster the type of environment that achieves their goals. Enhanced commissioning outlines a process that holds accountable the contractor, the owner, and end user to the goals of the project and each other. The entire process begins from concept to post occupancy. A commissioning agent is required, independent from the design and construction teams who can guide the owner, designers, contractor, installers, users, and maintenance crew to construct, use, and maintain the best building the project parameters will allow. Benefits of enhanced commissioning include operational cost savings, catching installation mistakes, addressing occupant discomforts, enhancing indoor air quality and thermal comfort, prolonging equipment lifespans, lowering the risk of litigation, and training of the users to operate the building more efficiently. Enhanced commissioning has proven to be so successful that many local jurisdictions are adopting it, such as the CalGreen code for California and green building plan check in the City of Los Angeles. Enhanced commissioning is a beneficial process for all.
Comprehensive Commissioning Benefits for Building Owners during Design, Construction, and Beyond
In February of 2013, the Port of Los Angeles (POLA) began construction of its very first LEED certified terminal building; the administration building for rear berths 136-139 TraPac terminal. POLA’s Board of Harbor Commissioners adopted a policy in 2007 that required all newly constructed buildings over 7,500 square feet to obtain LEED certification. LEED stands for leadership in energy and environmental design, and is a guideline by U.S. Green Building Council to promote sustainable building design and construction. This paper focuses on enhanced commissioning, one of the more important components of LEED for facility owners, designers, building systems engineers, and tenants. Owners and tenants alike want comfortable indoor environments with building systems that operate efficiently, limit maintenance, and ultimately help foster the type of environment that achieves their goals. Enhanced commissioning outlines a process that holds accountable the contractor, the owner, and end user to the goals of the project and each other. The entire process begins from concept to post occupancy. A commissioning agent is required, independent from the design and construction teams who can guide the owner, designers, contractor, installers, users, and maintenance crew to construct, use, and maintain the best building the project parameters will allow. Benefits of enhanced commissioning include operational cost savings, catching installation mistakes, addressing occupant discomforts, enhancing indoor air quality and thermal comfort, prolonging equipment lifespans, lowering the risk of litigation, and training of the users to operate the building more efficiently. Enhanced commissioning has proven to be so successful that many local jurisdictions are adopting it, such as the CalGreen code for California and green building plan check in the City of Los Angeles. Enhanced commissioning is a beneficial process for all.
Comprehensive Commissioning Benefits for Building Owners during Design, Construction, and Beyond
Kuo, Rodger (author) / Low, Bryan (author)
14th Triennial International Conference ; 2016 ; New Orleans, LA
Ports 2016 ; 459-467
2016-06-06
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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