Designed for commissioning agents and owner's representatives, as well as design professionals, project managers, and operations managers, the ARCHIBUS Commissioning applications captures building information from design and construction. The application collates BIM models, CAD drawings, schedules, as-builts, shop drawings, Operation & Maintenance manuals, preventive maintenance procedures, regulations, warranties, emergency operating procedures, schedules for permits and renewals as well as space and equipment inventories. The product keeps all materials instantly searchable and directly-accessible over the Web. More importantly, the product collates the data in a structured, meaningful electronic form, one that you can put immediately into action for operational functions, such as equipment check out, preventive maintenance, and space management.
Current commissioning practice involves manual hand-off of countless files in different formats -- including spreadsheets, manuals, and drawing files. To view and modify these design files often requires specialized construction applications that are not available to all stakeholders. After locating the proper file, you often need to manually extract data to use it. Management of this data in this format is unwieldy for one building, and impossible for an entire campus.
In contrast, the ARCHIBUS Commissioning application uses Web Services to collect and coordinate both graphic and non-graphic data transparently from all stakeholders and share it, instantly, over the Web. You can access your data using nothing more than your Web browser or a mobile tablet. You gain consistent visibility into the project, high accuracy for the data, and verifiably complete building documentation. Additionally, you can never lose a file, a manual, or a piece of building data because you always know exactly where it is -- in ARCHIBUS.
The Commissioning application includes the following processes to automate your workflow:
- Commissioning Agents submit design submissions for milestone statuses.
- Design professionals review these submissions and provide refinements.
- Commissioning agents submit revised submissions.
- When the design is finalized the design professional uses the Approve Documentation action to approve the submissions, ensuring that only approved submissions are available in the Construction phase for use as construction checklists or test procedures.
- Project managers generate assessment items and assign them to commissioning agents.
- Commissioning agents review and, if needed, print the construction checklist, and upload a revised document with their field notes.
- Construction project managers use reports, such as the Commissioning Project Scoreboard, and Highlight Locations with Commissioning Issues.
- The Commissioning Project Close-out task walks project managers, commissioning agents, and building occupants through the close-out process by showing work packages color-coded by their degree of completeness. This report enables you to evaluate projects that are completed and those that are behind.