What does a commissioning project need?

From a commissioning authority's desk.

Before anything is tested, a commissioning project needs:

• a team that knows how these facilities are built, how they run and how they fail;
• the owner’s project requirements and a basis of design to test against;
• a commissioning plan — the scope, the levels, the roles, who signs what, and the gate between each level and the next;
• design and submittal reviews that take risk out before it is built;
• a test for every piece of equipment and every system, written to its standard before it arrives.

While it runs, it needs one record every party signs, gates that hold until the work is done, deficiencies followed to closure, and a clear account of what is owed, by whom and by when.

The team is ours. The rest is MCX.

MCX

Built by a commissioning authority, for commissioning, from L1 to L5.

• Gigascale campuses modelled in full, from the outset — every building, hall, block and piece of equipment established before the first test.
• The whole test program, ready on Day 1 — checklists for every unit and test scripts for every system, written to their governing standards.
• The commissioning plan and every report prepared, signed and issued within the platform.
• Documents and submittals tracked in real time — what is in, what is missing, what is late.
• Deficiencies managed through to closure.
• Progress visible at every level, from a single unit to the entire campus.
• Every party working on one record, on site or in the office, with or without a connection.
• The turnover package and the final commissioning report, assembled as the work is signed.

And many more capabilities beyond this list — scanning equipment on site among them.

We deliver on MCX

Mission Critical Engineers delivers its commissioning projects on MCX. Other commissioning authorities deliver theirs on MCX in partnership with MCE.

Commissioning your next gigascale campus? Let’s talk.

Alicia Yan, P.Eng., is Principal of Mission Critical Engineers, a commissioning authority for data centres and mission-critical facilities.