Third Party / MEP Commissioning

Every facility operator and building owner wants an efficient and sustainable building. However, as you strive to provide an efficient building, you must take a proactive approach to Building Commissioning. You cannot assume that your mechanical plans and specifications are complete or that your mechanical, electrical, and low voltage subcontractors have installed and interfaced the building management system so that it operates as intended by the designer, as expected by the Owner, or even as specified. Eliminate the risk of inadequate installations and untimely troubleshooting delays. As a Third Party MEP Commissioning Agent, Nova Consulting Services can help you with this.

Through our Third Party / MEP Commissioning Program, Nova strives to ensure that your project’s efficiency goals and design standards, as they relate to the building management systems, are clearly defined and understood at the beginning of the project, and are successfully implemented throughout the life of the project and beyond.

Based on the requirements of the specifications, our responsibilities as your Third Party / MEP Commissioning Agent can include development of a commissioning plan (inclusive of test procedures), reviewing and validating the project drawings and specifications, review of submittals, presiding over coordination meetings with the Contractor and Systems Subcontractors, scheduling commissioning activities, performing on-site progress observations, developing field reports, verifying balancing of the systems, witnessing equipment start-up and testing, and documenting proper functional performance of the equipment and systems.

Coordination among the subcontractors is a very important key to the success of our Commissioning and TCO Management process. Coordination meetings provide a productive forum during which members of the commissioning team can participate in developing the Building Commissioning Schedule. The commissioning team becomes better equipped to identify and address potential scheduling conflicts early on.

Upon completion of the work, each required component will be dynamically tested for individual function and for function within subsystems, systems, and system interfaces under full operation to determine that they perform in accordance with the contract documents. This is achieved first through Pre-Functional testing, and then through Functional Performance testing. The process will include testing under simulated conditions to assess the reaction of systems under irregular conditions. All data and findings will be documented accordingly and will ultimately be submitted as a final Commissioning Report.

As independent scheduling consultants, Nova will also help to facilitate training of operational staff and final turn-over of the facility to the facility operator. If functional performance is deferred for seasonal evaluation, Nova will participate in coordinating and witnessing the deferred testing process when appropriate.