After the East-Japan earthquake disaster, we have realized the importance of energy and its constraints more than we did before. To overcome this critical situation, we declare that commissioning is essential for efficient energy usage in buildings and maintaining indoor comfort.
1. The energy consumption of every building can be reduced - generally significantly.
Various energy conservation measures can be found in buildings including operational measures and retrofit measures by carefully examining their building service systems.
2. The commissioning process is essential to improve building performance.
Commissioning can achieve the intended performance of building services, including comfort, safety and proper use of energy. This is a process of optimization and verification that has not been established in the conventional building construction process.
3. Energy Conservation measures can be identified in every phase of the building lifecycle.
Initial commissioning which verifies and ensure that buildings meet the owners' intent from the planning and design phase to the operation phase, retro-commissioning which is for existing buildings, and on-going commissioning for continuous verification can be applied during any phases of the building lifecycle.
4. A sustainable building cannot be realized without verification through commissioning process.
For utilization of renewable energy, such as solar energy and other un-used thermal energy from the natural environment as well as urban exhaust-heat, applying the commissioning process contributes to making the system more sustainable. Commissioning measures also verify the energy performance and provide the highest grade of stability and disaster protection performance for the existing energy sources.
5. Proper knowledge of building services is a key to better buildings.
Commissioning can also clarify how the building services actually work, by analyzing operational data and verification. If performance analysis is conducted by computer simulation, the results can be used for optimization of system design or operation.
6. Building commissioning can help alleviate energy shortages.
7. We spare no effort to provide proper information on energy conservation in building services for persons who are related to building management.
8. We are dedicated to promoting certified commissioning engineers with the ability to achieve the objectives shown above. |