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Commissioning is a process focused on anticipating quality for the benefit of operations. It is a management tool designed to achieve actual energy savings while reducing building operating costs.
Commissioning is defined as a set of tasks to complete a new installation, ensuring it achieves contractual performance levels and establishing the conditions for their ongoing maintenance.
The scopes typically covered by the commissioning process include technical installations (HVAC systems: heating/ventilation/air conditioning, plumbing equipment, electrical installations, building automation and control systems or BMS) and all equipment related to indoor environmental control and fire safety for one or more buildings.
Our commissioning approach begins as early as possible during the design phase, starting from project programming. It then continues throughout the construction process up to the handover of a building, whether new or renovated, and extends into the initial years of operation.
By ensuring enhanced long-term sustainability and durability of installations, it reduces their overall operating cost, minimizes breakdown risks, and contributes to the long-term value enhancement of real estate assets.
Guaranteeing Energy and Environmental Performance
Commissioning aims to meet the project owner's expectations. It ensures efficient management of technical equipment by operation, cleaning, and maintenance teams. It also allows for anticipating and monitoring occupant comfort and indoor air quality criteria while optimizing and reducing the site's actual energy consumption. Furthermore, it ensures, as required, compliance with environmental certifications and comfort quality labels such as HQE, LEED, BREEAM, EFFINERGIE, WELL, or OsmoZ.
Within the framework of the BACS decree and the decree related to the Tertiary Eco-Energy Scheme, which mandates a 60% reduction in energy consumption (compared to a reference year defined between 2010 and 2019) across all tertiary building complexes exceeding 1000 square meters by 2050, its importance is paramount.
Sinteo's Commissioning Expertise
Leveraging its engineering design office, Sinteo offers the most relevant technical solutions and is capable of optimizing extensive real estate portfolios. Depending on the requirements, we deploy our qualified engineers who hold the CBCP (Certified Building Commissioning Professional) certification, attesting to their expertise and experience in Commissioning and Retro-commissioning.
We thus support project owners across various building types (offices, hospitality, collective housing, etc.) and along five key areas:
- Design: Anticipating potential operational issues and optimizing building maintenance.
- Construction Monitoring: Supporting teams during execution.
- Handover: Conducting tests and trials upon work completion, assessing the performance of technical installations.
- Knowledge Transfer: Ensuring that construction teams provide the necessary technical knowledge to those responsible for operations.
- Monitoring: Conducting seasonal tests during the initial years of operation and monitoring consumption and maintenance quality.
We remain particularly attentive to the technical simplicity of the solutions employed and to resource preservation. Even though client expectations often lead to increasing technological complexity in buildings, we are convinced that it is not always systematically necessary.