BSRIA has launched a new guide (BB 44/2013, ISBN 9780860227182 ) to ‘seasonal commissioning’.
The consultancy, test, instruments, and research association for the building services sector, said: “The concept of seasonal commissioning recognises that some aspects of the systems need to be commissioned when the external temperatures and indoor occupancy patterns are close to the peak conditions for which the system was designed. For most of the time, however, most systems are operating at part load, and it is important to establish that they also operate correctly under those conditions.” The new guide ‘defines what seasonal commissioning is, and the reasons for carrying it out’, explains which tasks and activities fall under its scope, and discusses the requirements for such commissioning within various environmental assessment tools, such as BREEAM and LEED.
