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The building commissioning process (CxP) ensures we meet your expectations throughout your project.

McCownGordon highly recommends involving building commissioning in your project for its wide array of benefits and short payback timelines. CxP validates and documents that systems are in working condition together to meet owner expectations. There are six primary types of commissioning: New Building Commissioning, Re/Existing Building Commissioning, Retro/Existing Building Commissioning, Monitoring-Based Commissioning, Building Enclosure Commissioning, and Building Assessments.

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New Building Commissioning

Retro Building Commissioning

Monitoring-Based Commissioning

Building Assessment

Enclosure Commissioning

Re-Commissioning

Retro-Commissioning at McCownGordon is designed to reduce building energy loss.

NEW BUILDING COMMISSIONING

New building commissioning is a quality assurance process for newly constructed building. It’s a systematic process that ensures all the building systems, from electrical and plumbing to heating and ventilation, work as intended before people move in. The goal is to guarantee that the building operates efficiently, safely, and in line with its design.

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RETRO/EXISTING BUILDING COMMISSIONING

When dealing with older structures, retro/existing building commissioning becomes crucial. It involves a comprehensive evaluation of an existing building’s performance, with the aim of identifying areas for improvement. This could include optimizing energy usage, enhancing occupant comfort, and reducing operational costs. Essentially, it’s like a renovation project, but one that focuses on making the building run more efficiently.

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Building Assessments provided by McCownGordon

MONITORING-BASED COMMISSIONING

Monitoring-based commissioning takes a proactive approach to building maintenance. It leverages advanced technology to continuously monitor various systems within a building, like HVAC, and lighting. Any deviations from expected performance trigger alerts, enabling timely intervention to prevent issues and optimize resource utilization. Think of it as real-time diagnostics for your building’s health. Additionally this can be layered on with optimization where the building setpoints, schedules and sequence of operations are fine tuned to meet the buildings personality.

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BUILDING ASSESSMENTS

Our team of experts provides you with a holistic view of your building’s condition to determine the best process for construction. Through a Building Assessment, our team investigates the building condition and systems to evaluate risk and overall building performance. With a high level of attention to quality, we evaluate the building and site early during preconstruction in order to reduce the environmental impact of practices and materials and focus on life cycle assessments (LCA). We use programs like Sefaira and our in-house LCA tool to quickly evaluate energy usage versus utility, maintenance, and replacement costs to provide our clients the most sustainable option.

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Enclosure Commissioning

Building Enclosure Commissioning (BECx) is a quality assurance procedure aimed at verifying that building envelope components such as roofs and windows are properly designed and installed to meet performance goals, thereby improving durability and energy efficiency. This process is essential for minimizing air and water leaks, enhancing thermal insulation, and boosting occupant comfort.

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Re-Commissioning

Re-Cx, or Re-Commissioning, involves assessing and enhancing a building’s existing systems to maintain or boost operational performance. Unlike RCx, which targets previously uncommissioned structures, Re-Cx focuses on those that were once commissioned but have since experienced drift due to usage changes, altered schedules, or wear over time. The goal is to realign systems with current needs and original design intent.

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Emily Tilgner

SVP, Building Performance Solutions

Jereme Nollett, Sr Commissioning Manager at McCownGordon

Jereme Nollett, PE, CCP, EMP

Commissioning Executive

Andrew Shaver

Commissioning Manager

Emily Tilgner

SVP, Building Performance Solutions

Emily Leads multiple departments, including our MEP (mechanical, electrical and plumbing), Structural & Soil, Commissioning, Sustainability, VDC and QAQC teams. She brings a wealth of experience to the team, adding crucial knowledge when it comes to the systems of complex projects. With a long history in design, Emily’s unique perspective helps projects spot potential issues long before they happen.

Jereme Nollett, PE, CCP, EMP

Commissioning Executive

Leveraging his years of experience, Jereme specializes in building performance optimization, life- cycle cost analysis, cost-benefit analysis, carbon footprint reduction and energy conservation measures. He has a diverse background in system design, new and retrocommissioning, energy management, and test & balance with apassion for sustainable design and building optimization, resulting in an extensive understanding of MEP systems, their functionality and interaction with one another.

Andrew Shaver

Commissioning Manager

Andrew brings a different viewpoint to the commissioning process. Coming from a background of facilities management and program management for construction activities in multi-site organizations, Andrew has spent time across the table as the owner. He has lead activities such as directing design decisions, operating procedures, leading multiple design-build projects, and understanding the cost associated with mechanical systems and their requirements. Over the last decade, he has worked to institute new and retro-commissioning in the facilities he served and advocated for optimization to prolong the life of mechanical systems, reducing operating costs, and aligning real-world metrics with design intent for optimal occupant comfort and usability.

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Commissioning Benefits

1. Energy Savings

Projects with a comprehensive commissioning approach have up to 5x savings of the projects not commissioned.
Average savings of 75% of the original savings after 20 years.
Value of energy savings ranges from $0.02-$0.19/SF
Value of non-energy savings ranges from $0.23-$6.96/SF
Average costs are 0.4% of total construction

2. Affordability + Additional Savings

CxP provides an average of 13–16% annual energy savings, 8–20% lower equipment maintenance costs, better equipment performance, and better indoor air quality (IAQ), the average ROI for CxP range from 1.1 to 4.2 years—a solid return on your investment.

3. Reduces Maintenance + Future Costs

Average owner maintenance costs of a commissioned building range between 18-20% less than a non-commissioned building.
Between 46% and 62% of deficiencies identified during commissioning would manifest as higher repair/maintenance costs in the future.