Basic Guidelines for Commissioning Scheduling of Public Buildings

The article is meant to set some basic principles when construction projects enter the final turn to completion and to provide some basic guidelines and industry approaches.

In today’s dynamic construction world when final deliverable is not anymore a simple architectural accomplishment but rather a live occupational blend of state of the art equipment and facilities fitted into modern urban standard the project manager needs a team which synergistically to complete the project on time, within the authorized budget and with the specified level of quality.

The Planning phase that encompass the systematic approach of procedures and processes to pave the road for the Execution should entails some allowance for the Commissioning planning as well.

For many projects within the construction sector the commissioning planning starts as early as possible during the project planning phase for several good reasons:

• structuring the commissioning team and setting the right time for their arrival to the site

• establishing the communication plan for the commissioning period and clear settlement of the disciplines point of contact with the Project Manager as well as the way of reporting

• assessment of the potential costs when confronted with the total project cost

• calling for a special attention when health and safety precautions are to be placed for the case of equipment commissioning, start up, testing

• appoint performance testing crews with calibrated instruments

There is no special requirement for the scheduling apart from the project time schedule but since the commissioning crew (technicians, operators etc.) travels from place to place on different projects the exact dates of mobilization for the commissioning personnel, vendor’s technical assistance, consultants and other technical support must be known well in advance.

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