What is Commissioning?
Why is Commissioning necessary?

Commissioning is the way of ensuring the performance of building services prior to acquisition of the building.

Commissioning activities facilitates the assessment of the building technical functions against utilization intent of the buyer.

EXERTUS® Approach

Exertus®, grounds on being independent and objective in Commissioning services.

By combining his own experience in Construction, Operation and Maintenance of the building services; with complementing specialist advisors’ knowledge; Exertus® provides an objective and reliable service to fulfil the Client’s expectations.

"Exertus is at your service to facilitate your building to be delivered meets your energy efficiency, indoor air quality and comfort expectations."

EXERTUS® Touch

Technical Due Diligence and Functional Testing:

• Reveals the actual technical performance of the building objectively prior to acquisition or lease of a building.
• Eliminates any unexpected issues effecting value of the investment.
• Enables the investor to avoid any unexpected capital expenditure.

Retro Commissioning

• Insufficiently documented or inadequate Commissioning works of the building requires repetition of the whole Commissioning process after acquisition or lease. Retro Commissioning of such buildings is recommended to fulfil new owner’s expectations.
• Facilitates to detect and rectify any deficiencies -which may cause user complaints- in advance.

What is Commissioning?
Why is Commissioning necessary?

Today’s HVAC systems must be energy efficient, satisfy stringent indoor air quality and comfort expectations, and still be designed and constructed within tight budgets. System designs meeting these demands typically have many components, sub-systems, and controls. Additionally, building construction involves many specialized trades that often work independently of one another. Ineffective communication and coordination between designers and contractors, and among contractors, can produce HVAC systems, fire fighting and others with installation deficiencies that do not perform properly.

Without verification of the correct interaction and operation of all systems and components, system performance as specified and intended is unlikely to occur. Commissioning is a systematic process that addresses these issues. It facilitates and ensures the required communication, coordination, testing, and verification, and results in the delivery of a building whose all systems perform as intended.

Effective commissioning is an intentional, visible, cooperative and proactive process. It includes design review, installation verification, proper system start-ups, functional performance tests, operations and maintenance (O&M) training, and complete documentation of the systems.

In summary, commissioning serves the owner’s best interests by delivering a facility with systems that perform as specified, intended, and paid for.

EXERTUS® Approach

Exertus®, grounds on being independent and objective in Commissioning services.

By combining his own experience in Construction, Operation and Maintenance of the building services; with complementing specialist advisors’ knowledge; Exertus provides an objective and reliable service to fulfil the Client’s expectations.

Exertus® is at your service to facilitate your building to be delivered meets your energy efficiency, indoor air quality and comfort expectations.

EXERTUS® Touch

• Assures the Owner about the technical performance of the building complies with the intent.
• Increases the value of the building by clarifying the performance status.
• Reduces the risk of unexpected problems during the post-occupancy period and prevents possible user complaints proactively.
• Reduces the change orders, additional claims and the risk of project delays
• Minimizes energy and operational costs
• Facilitates Owner advocacy for design and construction decisions
• Records building systems performance at the time of handing over to the Technical Operation service provider, allowing it to be audited by the Owner.

What is Commissioning?
Why is Commissioning necessary?

Today’s HVAC systems must be energy efficient, satisfy stringent indoor air quality and comfort expectations, and still be designed and constructed within tight budgets. System designs meeting these demands typically have many components, sub-systems, and controls. Additionally, building construction involves many specialized trades that often work independently of one another. Ineffective communication and coordination between designers and contractors, and among contractors, can produce HVAC systems, fire fighting and others with installation deficiencies that do not perform properly.

Without verification of the correct interaction and operation of all systems and components, system performance as specified and intended is unlikely to occur. Commissioning is a systematic process that addresses these issues. It facilitates and ensures the required communication, coordination, testing, and verification, and results in the delivery of a building whose all systems perform as intended.

Effective commissioning is an intentional, visible, cooperative and proactive process. It includes design review, installation verification, proper system start-ups, functional performance tests, operations and maintenance (O&M) training, and complete documentation of the systems.

In summary, commissioning serves the owner’s best interests by delivering a facility with systems that perform as specified, intended, and paid for.

EXERTUS® Approach

EXERTUS® supports the communication between the Owner and Designer; by facilitating the transfer of Owner’s expectations to Designer and Owner’s advocacy to design.

Exertus®, grounds on being independent and objective in Commissioning services.

By combining his own experience in Construction, Operation and Maintenance of the building services; with complementing specialist advisors’ knowledge.

EXERTUS® Touch

• Guarantees that the building services perform as designed. Supports Designer brand value with Owner’s satisfaction.
• Eliminates any incompatibility between Design Intent and Owner’s Project Requirement; leading to Owner’s satisfaction of design.
• Identifies functional problems of the building cannot be attributed to Designer.
• Commissioning reports compiles valuable benchmarking data concerning “what we have learned” for Designer.

Technical Due Diligence and Functional Testing

• Purchasing a real estate requires plenty of impartial information. This can be gained through a Due Diligence inspection, which is a property inspection service that is focused on providing valuable and reliable information to help you make the right purchasing decision. Exertus evaluates the existing design with respective to clients intent of utilization; as well as repairs, upgrades and modifications required. The assessment of such issues is based on our vast experience in Construction, Operation and Maintenance of such building services. This survey clears away any uncertainties such as:
  
  • Fire safety
  • Energy performance
  • Thermal comfort
  • Indoor air quality
  • Noise
  • Unwanted air drafts
  • Compliance with local codes
  • Capital expenditure to be considered
• Analyze the quality of the property’s existing care and maintenance:
  • Maintenance standards (SLA)
  • Maintenance Schedule
  • Service Forms
  • Equipment History Data
• Site observations and life analysis
• Capital expenditure budgets

EXERTUS® Retro

In case the building is insufficiently documented or inadequately Commissioned; Exertus® Retro develops a Retro Commissioning Plan based on review of the MEP projects, BMS data and user complaints. To satisfy the intent of the owner, Exertus® Retro tunes up the building to eliminate user complaints and rectifies deficiencies of firefighting system as much as the existing infrastructure allows. Furnishes the owner final recommendation report.

EXERTUS® MICRO

Exertus® MICRO delivers survey and troubleshooting services for specific problems of the buildings.

• Local temperature and air quality problems
• Room/space pressure relationship testing
• Fumehood testing
• Sound and vibration testing
• BMS and fire detection system field communication problems
• Thermal ımaging
• RCD safety switch test
• Lightening protection
• Grounding
• Harmonic analysis
• Light level testing

About Exertus

EXERTUS is a group of engineers with minimum ten years of diverse experience in Building Services of Construction, Operation, Maintenance and TAB. Our organization is furnished with multidisciplinary knowledge in every aspect of building services also equipped with online service management system particularly important for large scaled projects.

References

Due to confidentiality reasons, we cannot disclose detailed information related to the projects. Upon your request, we can arrange a presentation concerning our experience.

EXERTUS® C²

Exertus®, starts Commissioning services at pre-design phase to support the building systems to be designed and constructed as intended by the Investor. It facilitates and ensures the required communication, coordination, testing, verification and results in delivery of the building whose building systems performed as intended. It includes design review, installation verification, proper system start-ups, performance tests, O&M training and complete documentation of the building systems. In summary Commissioning, serves the Owners best interest by delivering a facility with systems that perform as specified, intended and paid for such as:

• Fire safety
• Energy performance
• Thermal comfort
• Indoor air quality
• Noise
• Unwanted air drafts
• Compliance with local codes

EXERTUS® CP

In some certain cases the Owner may tend to start the Commissioning process in construction phase. In such cases, Exertus® develops a Commissioning plan issuing specification section covering the contractor’s Commissioning responsibilities in the beginning and the remaining process is similar to Comprehensive Commissioning to satisfy all the needs of the Owner.

EXERTUS® VOC

Should the specifications assigned the Commissioning Authority (CxA) as a sub-contractor to the General Contractor, but reporting to the designer and the Owner ;as well as to the Contractor. With the consideration this situation may jeopardise the objectivity and independence of CxA, a third party service may be deemed necessary. Exertus® VOC prepares a Commissioning Verification Plan and implements with direct measurement.

EXERTUS® Retro

In case the building is insufficiently documented or inadequately Commissioned; Exertus® Retro develops a Retro Commissioning Plan based on review of the MEP projects, BMS data and user complaints. To satisfy the intent of the Owner, Exertus® Retro tunes up the building to eliminate user complaints and rectifies deficiencies of firefighting system as much as the existing infrastructure allows. Furnishes the owner final recommendation report.

EXERTUS® RC

After the occupation of the building, the intent of the use may vary and revision of the building even deteriorates the validity of the capacities any system balances. In such cases Exertus® RC develops a Re-Commissioning Plan based on review of the MEP projects, BMS data and user complaints. To satisfy the intent of the Owner, Exertus® RC tunes up the building to eliminate user complaints as much as the existing infrastructure allows. Furnishes the owner final report, including energy performance recommendations as well. It is suggested that Re-Commissioning should be repeated with max 10 years intervals.

EXERTUS® MICRO

Exertus® MICRO delivers survey and troubleshooting services for specific problems of the buildings.

• Local temperature and air quality problems
• Room/space pressure relationship testing
• Fumehood testing
• Sound and vibration testing
• BMS and fire detection system field communication problems
• Thermal ımaging
• RCD safety switch test
• Lightening protection
• Grounding
• Harmonic analysis
• Light level testing

Energy Management

Contrary to classical and outdated approaches; our Energy Management approach ties together 5 core principles:

• Commissioing –based process:

  Emphasizes on elements of both Existing Building Commissioning and Test, Adjustment and Balance (TAB).

• Data-driven approach:

  Specifies a commitment to raw data collection and focuses on field testing and detailed anaylsis.

• Optimum "performance+efficiency":

  Most traditional approaches tend to rely on limited solutions that do not address overall building performance. Our approach is broader than energy audit programs /protocols and incorporates the implementation and validation of energy efficiency and performance improvement measures.

• Cost optimization:

  Instead of focusing on replacement of energy inefficient equipment; we adopt a broader approach also emphasizing optimization of operation parameters and scenarios with no cost.

• Manageable "Energy Management":

  We implement energy management software that alerts technical manager for any anomaly effects the energy consumption.

EXERTUS® C²

Exertus®, starts Commissioning services at pre-design phase to support the building systems to be designed and constructed as intended by the Investor. It facilitates and ensures the required communication, coordination, testing, verification and results in delivery of the building whose building systems performed as intended. It includes design review, installation verification, proper system start-ups, performance tests, O&M training and complete documentation of the building systems such as:

• Fire safety
• Energy performance
• Thermal comfort
• Indoor air quality
• Noise
• Unwanted air drafts
• Compliance with local codes

In summary Commissioning, serves the Owners best interest by delivering a facility with systems that perform as specified; also supports the communication between the Owner and Designer and Owner’s advocacy to design.