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 GreetingsIn the event the global environment issue becoming critical, the life-cycle quality assurance of the HVAC and other building services systems during the building design, construction, and maintenance is most important in order to realize energy saving with the constraint of reasonable indoor air quality. As everyone knows, it has also become an important subject in our country from the viewpoint of securing sustainable social stock and transforming into recycling society. To secure the higher quality of an architecture and the building services systems for any new construction as well as existing building, it has been recognized that a commissioning process, through which the quality of energy and environmental performance are defined, documented, verified, tested and monitored through phases of programming, design, construction testing and adjusting and operation and maintenance, plays a decisive role. Commissioning of a new building is the process of defining building owner’s project requirements on the indoor environment and energy performances, managing the process to realize thus defined performances through the design, construction and operation phases by check-and-review, verification, documentation, functional performance tests, staff training and seasonal performance verification, and thus advising building owners to accept operational systems and fulfill their social obligation as well. Application of this process should result in a hygienic, healthy and comfortable indoor environment that was requested by the building owner, by which the areal and global environmental protection through energy saving and reduction of environmental load.such as heat and global warming will be realized. Usability and sustainability of buildings will also be established. We established the (NPO) Building Services Commissioning Association, the BSCA, in August, 2004, in order to solicit Japanese society for this urgent problem and to prepare engineering infrastructure in response to social requirements, which was motivated by the issue of “The Guideline of Building Services Commissionig Process” from the Society of Heationg, Air-Conditioning and Sanitary Engineers of Japan, SHASE. Our activity aims at propagation of the commissioning process over the construction society of Japan, that is, building owners, building services design and construction engineers and technicians, operation and maintenance engineers, at establishments of standard documentation ad technical tools for commissioning process, and at training and education of commissioning engineers. Immediately after establishment, we have promoted propagation of commissioning concept through various activities such as lecture meeting and symposiums either on our own planning or in corporation with other functions such as academic societies and governmental bodies. Also, we were given in trust the research and practical commissioning business in specific facilities of real projects, through which live document models and testing protocols of functional performance tests have been stocked. We are preparing now the registration system of a new profession, the commissioning authority and relating commissioning engineers to bring up sufficient amount of capable engineers and/or managers to meet the social requirements in the coming ages. As the international activities, we have joined the international research projects organized by IEA/ECBCS/Annexes such as Annex40 and Annex 47 foe building and HVAC commissioning. The close exchange of information by persons and by documents publicized on the website with the leading commissioning NPO in USA, PECI, the conference site of NCBC, the National Conference on Building Commissioning, and BCA, the Building Commissioning Association have been accelerated. Unfortunately, some big scandals have recently taken place in Japan, where the authorized architects made miscalculation, not knowing whether intentionally or compulsorily under the pressure of construction relating parties caused by cost or fee matters. The incidents resulted in the loss of reliability on building construction process and raised a lot of questions and discussions among professionals, amateurs, scholars and academic societies and, of course, bureaucracies and legislators, which has resulted in reforming architectural and engineering licensing system in Japan. Due to this unhappy event, though it may seem too late, earnest and pragmatic methodology of a substantial quality assurance in building production will be developed, in which the status of the commissioning process, especially for energy and environmental engineering systems, will be given the civil rights towards the saying “commissioning as usual” and then to the “commissioning as business”. Qualification system and specific insurance regime for commissioning business will be developed, too. The environment and energy system which our association aims at, is different from the scandal issue both in aspect and quality, but more global, however, it is the same in a point to intend for performance realization of an individual building’s services. Taking it in our mind, exchanging information closely and collaborating on research and development projects in cooperation with allied industries and associated agencies are our strategy to contribute to society. May we ask for your
understanding for our intention and for a warm support to our
activity. 7/2007 |
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Non-profit Organization Building Services
Commissioning Association, BSCA 906-8-4-1,Haruoka,Chikusaku,Nagoya,Aichi JAPAN 464-0848 |
