Chapter 6 recap
After handover
The key takeaways from this chapter’s 2 lessons.
Commissioning
- Commissioning checks, tests, adjusts and demonstrates each system (ventilation, heating, power, controls, fire, lifts) against the design.
- It follows a plan: pre-commissioning checks, testing and balancing, integrated systems tests, witnessing and handover.
- Results (measured values, settings, certificates) are part of the handover information.
- Linking results to asset tags turns them into the operator's baseline.
The owner and the facilities team
- The owner (asset owner, client) keeps and runs the building, often as part of a larger estate.
- The FM team manages maintenance, repairs, space, energy, compliance and services, using systems like CAFM and BMS.
- They need information in their structure, linked to their codes, that loads into their systems.
- Involving them early (soft landings) is the best way to make handover information useful.