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Commissioning

The combination of more technically advanced facilities and the reality of rising energy costs has increased the need for building systems to perform at high levels. WSP’s commissioning agents leverage diverse backgrounds and skills to help owners and facility managers measure and verify the operational performance of buildings, leading to greater efficiency and lower operating and maintenance costs.

WSP’s commissioning agents provide guidance and benchmarking on behalf of owners’ requirements to measure and verify a building’s operational performance overtime. Facilities that are properly commissioned will perform more optimally, saving on costs over the life of a building. Additionally, the documentation of the commissioning process provides a reference point for correctly setting system baselines, guiding owner expectations over time.

Mitigating Rising Energy Costs

WSP’s Future Ready approach means we help our clients prepare today for a world that will look and feel substantially different tomorrow. Rising energy costs coupled with more extreme weather events present an increased need to ensure buildings are operating as designed, increasing energy efficiency and lowering costs. In addition, expanded adoption of the International Energy Code (IEC) 2015 in cities across the United States has led to a rise in the need for commissioning services, requiring commissioning to be completed on all projects larger than 40,000 square feet.

WSP focuses on getting a baseline energy use for a facility and then finding several energy conservation methods to mitigate the rising costs of utility prices, ultimately saving owners time and money.

Our team provides building condition assessment surveys, new construction commissioning, energy modeling, building enclosure commissioning, existing building and retro-commissioning, and ASHRAE level I, II and III energy audits, working with owners at all stages of projects to provide a dependable route to meet increasingly complex performance objectives.

 

Bringing Diverse Skills to Projects Nationwide

Each project has its own specific complexities. Our national commissioning team includes HVAC technicians, Master Plumbers and Electricians, MEP/FP engineers, building automation engineers, and testing and balancing engineers who come to us from backgrounds working for suppliers and vendors, owners and operators and engineering firms.

Our teams’ wide-ranging skillsets allow us to offer in depth understanding of best practices and energy savings techniques, allowing us to bring unique solutions to our clients’ challenges and deliver a better product.

WSP holds multiple commissioning designations, including as a Certified Commissioning Authority by the American Association of Building Commissioning and a Certified Commissioning Firm by the Building Commissioning Certification Board. Our team members hold various individual professional designations including CxA, CxT, CBCP, CEM, LEED AP, WELL AP, BCxA and TAB certifications.

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