video – Tom Meyer, Presidente di Praxis Green Incorporated illustra in "The Language of Commissioning" i quattro processi in cui si articola questa nuova tendenza nel green building movement.

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In questo video viene dato un orientamento sul processo di Commissioning, nel settore delle costruzioni e di messa in servizio degli impianti, per far conoscere i procedimenti, i termini, i documenti e i ritorni sugli investimenti in commissioning, retro-commissioning, ri-commissioning e commissioning continuo.
Questa presentazione è stata parte del International Emerging Technology Symposium 2010, un evento di due giorni che ha fornito ai partecipanti l'opportunità di presiedere a presentazioni e discussioni su come i settori delle forniture, della produzione, dei servizi di ingegneria e del commercio hanno trovato soluzioni avanzate attraverso tecnologie emergenti per l'efficienza degli impianti idraulici e meccanici.

Nella colonna a fianco è scaricabile il pdf con le immagini del Power Point della conferenza: "The Language of Commissioning - Tom Meyer"

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What is Building Commissioning
Building Commissioning is a systematic and documented process of ensuring that the owner's operational needs are met, building systems perform efficiently, and building operators are properly trained.

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Building commissioning provides documented confirmation that building systems function according to criteria set forth in the project documents to satisfy the owner's operational needs. Commissioning existing systems may require developing new functional criteria to address the owner's current requirements for system performance.

Commissioning for Existing Buildings
Commissioning for Existing Buildings (sometimes referred to as retro-commissioning) is a systematic process for investigating, analyzing, and optimizing the performance of building systems by improving their operation and maintenance to ensure their continued performance over time. This process helps make the building systems perform interactively to meet the owner's current facility requirements.

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Commissioning for New Buildings
Building commissioning for new buildings "focuses on verifying and documenting that the facility and all of its systems and assemblies are planned, designed, installed, tested, operated, and maintained to meet the owner's project requirements."

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Commissioning benefits
Some of the benefits resulting from commissioning include:
• A fully functional building at first occupancy (within warranty).
• Lower energy and maintenance costs.
• Safer and more comfortable buildings.
• Fewer disputes between building owner and general contractor.
• Fewer change orders where commissioning begins early.
• Problems discovered early when they are less expensive to correct. Numerous real world case studies have quantified these and other benefits.

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Termine del mese
Commissioning - Process by which an equipment, facility, or plant (which is installed, or is complete or near completion) is tested to verify if it functions according to its design objectives or specifications.

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Dizionario tecnico

OPR Owner Project Requirements Documento con le richieste del committente
Commission Delegare, autorizzare; incaricare; commissionare, ordinare, commettere. Mettere in funzione, avviamento
Best Practices Il modo migliore per fare qualcosa. Buone pratiche
Building systems Impiantistica dell'edificio
Facility
Un edificio o uno spazio che provvede a particolari servizi
Warranty Garanzia
Occupancy Occupare, prendere possesso di un edificio

Acronimi

BCA Building Commissioning Association
CxA Commissioning Authority
EBCx Existing Building Commissioning
WEEC World Energy Engineering Congress
www.energycongress.com
AEE Association of Energy Engineers
www.aeecenter.org
CEM Certified Energy Manager
BEP  Building Envelope Project
BER  Building Envelope Requirements

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Parole inglesi assonanti a parole italiane ma con diverso significato

Se dici: accomodate
Stai dicendo: installare
Se vuoi dire: accomodare
Devi usare: repair
Se dici: concrete
Stai dicendo: calcestruzzo
Se vuoi dire: concreto
Devi usare: real, actual

Language of Commissioning

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Tom_Meyer.pdf

Commissioning Existing Buildings

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Best_Practices.pdf

Commissioning Handbook Complete

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EDR.pdf

building commissioning

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BetterBricks_Overview.pdf