At an engineering conference this year, I had the opportunity to sit in and listen to consulting engineers discuss the need for them to commission operation and maintenance (OM) when the job is turned over to the customer. It was a hotly debated forum about guiding the OM responsibilities through the commissioning process. Participants duly noted, when working for an architect, it should be the architect's responsibility to close the loop between project completion and owner acceptance. Unfortunately, these engineers felt the architects were not qualified to fulfill this responsibility, and so the task had fallen on them. Thus, they discussed how to commission OM.
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