Independent third-party commissioning agent
323 Commissioning is an independent third-party commissioning agent working out of North Texas. We do not design mechanical systems and we do not install them — which is the entire reason our findings are worth anything to the person paying for the building.
Plenty of firms will commission your building. Some of them designed it. Some of them installed it. The work looks identical on a proposal, and it is not identical at all at the three moments below — which are the only three moments commissioning is really for.
Correcting it costs their own crew, their own material, or their own fee. The cheapest finding is the one nobody writes down.
Writing it down costs us nothing. It gets an ID, a severity and an owner, and it stays open until somebody verifies it closed.
Testing is the easiest scope to shorten, and the party holding the schedule is the party deciding what to shorten.
Testing is our entire scope. We report what was tested, what was not, and what that leaves unverified. The owner decides.
The party being asked to come back and fix it is the same party who installed it in the first place.
We run the warranty-period review, so the callback list is not written by the people it is addressed to.
Cooling tower fans, rooftop.
Fire damper and access door — tagged, and reachable for testing.
Topping out. The last beam, signed by the people who built it.
Kitchen suppression cylinders and actuator, behind the cabinet door.
From design review through the warranty year, on the owner's side of the table the whole way.
The building is already running. The question is whether it is running the way somebody once specified.
The documentation a certification body or a code official will actually accept, produced by a third party.
The cheapest point in a project's life to fix anything is before it has been drawn twice.
Systems prepared so the first functional test is a pass rather than the start of a punch list.
One point of contact owning commissioning across every trade, from schedule through turnover package.
Not a report that says the building is fine. A numbered record of every deficiency found, what it was, who owns it, and whether anyone has verified it closed — plus the test scripts that produced it.
| ID | System | Deficiency | Sev | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0114 | AHU-3 | Economizer damper fails to modulate above 42% OA; actuator linkage binding at the blade shaft. | 2 | Open |
| 0118 | VAV-212 | Reheat valve leaking by. Discharge 11°F above setpoint with zero heating call. | 2 | Corrected |
| 0121 | CHW | Differential pressure reset sequence appears in the approved submittal, not enabled in the controller. | 3 | Verified |
| 0126 | EF-7 | Runs continuously. Scheduled shutdown never written to the BAS. | 3 | Open |
| 0131 | AHU-1 | Unit fails to shut down on duct smoke detector alarm. Life-safety. | 1 | Open |
Every deficiency we open goes out in the same form to everyone who has to act on it. Nobody receives a softened copy, and nothing gets closed out in a conversation we were not in.
Tell us the building, the phase, and who is asking. If commissioning is not the right scope for what you are describing, we will say so — there is nothing else we are trying to sell you.