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It covers all Building Services and ensures that your systems operate optimally to meet the defined objectives and requirements.
At Optiflow we are dedicated to offering this specialist service in an integrated way – becoming your project partner to ensure we get ahead of any potential issues and stop them from happening.
As independent Commissioning Managers, we are uniquely focused only on the commissioning, and ultimately, the final stages of the project and its successful completion.
Commissioning Management ensures that all Building Services systems and equipment perform at their optimal levels. Through thorough testing, verification, and optimisation, commissioning identifies and resolves deficiencies, ensuring that systems operate as intended and deliver the expected performance. This results in improved energy efficiency, occupant comfort, and overall system functionality.
Commissioning Management helps mitigate risks associated with design, construction, and operation. By identifying and addressing potential issues early in the process, commissioning minimizes the likelihood of costly errors, delays, and performance problems. It also ensures that safety measures are properly implemented, reducing the risk of accidents and operational hazards.
Effective Commissioning Management can lead to significant cost savings over the lifespan of a building. By optimising system performance, commissioning reduces energy consumption, leading to lower operational costs. Additionally, by identifying and addressing deficiencies during the construction phase, commissioning management helps avoid costly rework and post-occupancy modifications.
Commissioning Management ensures that buildings provide a comfortable and healthy indoor environment for occupants. By verifying HVAC systems, lighting, sanitary, air quality controls, and other environmental factors, commissioning helps maintain proper temperature, humidity, and air circulation, and enhances occupant comfort and satisfaction.
Commissioning Management helps extend the lifespan of equipment and systems by ensuring proper installation, testing, and maintenance procedures are implemented and documented. By ensuring that equipment operates within design parameters and is well-maintained, commissioning reduces the likelihood of premature failures, minimising the need for costly replacements or repairs.
Commissioning Management helps ensure that buildings and systems comply with applicable codes, standards, and regulations. By conducting comprehensive testing and documentation, commissioning verifies compliance and provides evidence of adherence to regulatory requirements, ensuring that projects meet legal and industry standards.
Commissioning Management includes training and knowledge transfer to building operators and maintenance personnel. This helps ensure that they are familiar with the systems, understand their operation and maintenance requirements, and can effectively troubleshoot any issues. This knowledge transfer empowers the facility staff to operate and maintain the systems efficiently.
Under the oversight of an independent Commissioning Management specialist, building owners reap rewards from significant cost-savings over a period of time.
The value-add that building commissioning provides in the long term certainly exceeds the upfront cost.
When fully commissioned, a building is adjusted to run and perform optimally and therefore:
A completed installation can be switched on, and may appear to be functioning, but will only operate correctly once a comprehensive commissioning process has been followed.
As Commissioning Engineers, we understand the processes and procedures for measurement and adjustment of system parameters, as this is our specialisation.
Director Shaun Mathews is an experienced Building Services Independent Commissioning Agent (ICA).
An ICA begins to focus on the outcomes from the very outset – starting at design-stage, through the construction process, into the physical commissioning processes, and finally to demonstration and documentation.
Since every project is unique, the ICA drives the plan and process required to achieve a successful outcome which must be bespoke to its building services.
Our end goal in a commissioning management project is that the occupants will enjoy the comfort, health and well-being from the system, and that it will work efficiently & cost-effectively.
Despite the growing recognition of the value of Commissioning Management, there still is a general lack of understanding of the added value of the process.
We are independent Commissioning Management experts and believe the inherent value of commissioning lies in having an independent advisor with specialist expertise to fulfil the design intent and realise the potential of the systems for the client.
To fully maximise the benefits of engaging Commission Management services, we recommend that we are involved from start to finish.
Scott is a well-known figure in the HVAC industry, having amassed over 37 years’ overall industry experience, 32 of which based in Hawke’s Bay and the last 14 of which as a professional engineer.
Scott’s career has encompassed Building Services HVAC engineering, Project Management, Contract Management and Governance duties for single and multi-disciplinary businesses in New Zealand.
Shaun is a highly experienced engineer who has worked in the HVAC industry for over 25 years, including widely around the UK (predominately in the London/South-east), and in New Zealand. Based out of Hawke’s Bay, he has been actively involved in HVAC projects across the country from Devonport to Dunedin since permanently relocating to New Zealand in 2016.