If you ask 10 construction-project managers to define commissioning, you are likely to get 10 different answers - sometimes overlapping, sometimes divergent. Rather than attempting to definitively define what commissioning is "supposed to be," this article focuses on a specific and highly effective aproach to commissioning a commercial boiler system. Today's boilers/burners are the end result of 150-plus years of industrial development and are among the most widely applied and robust pieces of heating equipment in the world. However, although the basic boiler may stay much the same, it comes in a number of designs, is asked to play a variety of roles, and often serves as the "base" for a wide array of supporting or dependent equipment. These supporting pieces and components must be closely matched to a specific job, and it is with these pieces that much of our commissioning work is done. The goal is to provide a building owner the most stable, efficient, and maintainable system possible given the overarching goals and constraints of a project. The process requires spending a great deal of time onsite, examining components as they are being installed and studying component manuals to determine how they can best be operated, controlled, and interfaced.
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