Basic Documentation
Table Of Contents
- About this Application Guide
- Chapter 1–Introduction
- Chapter 2–Goals of the Laboratory Environment
- Chapter 3–Unique Ventilation Needs of a Laboratory Facility
- Chapter 4–Ventilation Systems Classification
- Chapter 5–Laboratory Facility Exhaust Systems
- Chapter 6–Laboratory Containment Units - Ventilation
- Chapter 7–Room Ventilation, Makeup Air, and Pressurization Control Systems
- Chapter 8–Laboratory Temperature and Humidity Control Systems
- Chapter 9–Laboratory Emergencies - Ventilation System Response
- Chapter 10–Laboratory Ventilation System - Validation
- Chapter 11–Laboratory Ventilation System - Commissioning
- Glossary
- Index
Chapter 11–Laboratory Ventilation System - Commissioning
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• Commissioning Smoke Management Systems
It is very important to clearly document the responsibilities of each individual contractor
associated with the commissioning process in their respective section of the project
specifications. This will enable each prospective contractor to account for and acknowledge
their responsibilities when providing a cost proposal or bid on their portion of the project. In
general, the individual contractors should be aware that they will have to verify the complete
and proper installation of all equipment and components furnished as part of their contract,
and also submit signed certification forms that attest to their verification. In addition, certain
contractors should be made aware that they will have to maintain a representative on site
during all or much of the commissioning process to address issues pertaining to that
contractor’s work.
Development of the commissioning plan is particularly critical with regard to the contractor
responsible for furnishing and installing the facility control and monitoring system associated
with the facility ventilation system. Since a facilitywide control and monitoring system is
usually the most technically sophisticated of all building systems, it requires an extensive
amount of testing and verification. It is especially important that the system supplier provide
documentation certifying that each and every individual sensor and control element of the
overall control and monitoring system is correctly installed and that it functions properly. In
addition, each and every function of the overall system must be tested then adjusted and
tuned as necessary to achieve proper operation. This contractor must also provide adequate
owner and user training on the capabilities and use on the entire facility monitoring and
control system.
Each prospective control and monitoring system supplier should be required to produce
evidence of having a detailed comprehensive commissioning plan of their own that
addresses all of the items indicated in the preceding paragraphs in order to be approved as a
bidder on a laboratory facility project.