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The Complete Guide to Project Commissioning

Autodesk Construction Cloud

The main driving force behind a successful project is improved commissioning—and that’s what you’ll learn about below. . Why is Project Commissioning Important? Project commissioning, also referred to as Cx, is a series of milestones that includes the testing of systems, materials, and staff who will be operating the systems.

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Energy Efficient Commercial Building Tax Deduction 179D: What Owners Need to Know

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Let’s dig into the m a bit further. #1: Energy Model. A whole-building energy model using DOE-approved software must be either created for the building or updated from an existing model that was created for the building department or LEED submittal. The applicable ASHRAE 90.1 2: Inspection. if applicable) #4: Certification.

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Construction Project Closeout

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In order to get occupancy you need a number of documents from your consultants and various agencies but ultimately it’s the building inspector who grants occupancy. Some of the documents they will be looking for include: Letters from each of the consultants confirming that the project is built to drawings and specs.

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COBIE Guide Released for Public Comment – July 2012

Building Information Management

These products cover the entire facility life-cycle from planning, design, construction, commissioning all the way to operations, maintenance, and space management. This guide provides best-practice guidelines for these requirements. It is assumed that readers of this document have viewed these two on-line presentations.

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COBIE Guide Released for Public Comment – July 2012

Building Information Management

These products cover the entire facility life-cycle from planning, design, construction, commissioning all the way to operations, maintenance, and space management. This guide provides best-practice guidelines for these requirements. It is assumed that readers of this document have viewed these two on-line presentations.

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Code Compliance & Beyond: Upping Baseline Building Energy Performance

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In this case, an energy model is used to document the savings of the aggregated energy performance of the design over the code baseline. When projects pursue this method of code compliance, the code compliance energy model that is developed can also be used to further optimize the energy performance. What you can do about it.

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Open information exchange of Heating, Ventilating and Cooling systems (HVAC) – A Important Standard? – HVAC information exchange – HVACie

Building Information Management

Accompanying the technical documentation are instructions for creating the HVACie files using commercial design software. At this intial stage of the project we are working on defining the requirements for design deliverables at the Construction Documents Statge of Design (100% Design) and at the Construction, Ready For Fabrication stage.