The
ABC
Green Council hosted a roundtable meeting on “Commissioning for Sustainability & Maintainability” presented by Bryan Welsh of Welsh Commissioning
Group, Inc. Bryan shared how commissioning and retro-commissioning helps to ensure that facilities can be maintainable and sustainable. Welsh defines commissioning as “a systematic and documented process of ensuring that specific building systems perform interactively according to the design intent and the owners operational needs.” According to the Building Commissioning Association, some of the direct benefits from commissioning are:
• Savings in energy cost
• Improved building performance
• Improved air quality
• Increased productivity by building users
• Early detection of problems allowing them to be fixed sooner and less expensive
• Fewer change orders during construction
• Better building documentation
• Trained building operators and maintenance staff
• Reduced maintenance, operation, and equipment replacement cost.
For more information on commissioning, check out industry resources and white papers at www.wcxg.com or www.bcxa.org. The next meeting is a site tour of Glacier Recycle on June 4th. Contact Kim Trautman at ABC with questions regarding the ABC Green Council or to register to attend the next roundtable event at (800) 640-7789.