Greetings
In 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 ownerfs 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 gThe Guideline of
Building Services Commissionig Processh 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 gcommissioning as usualh and then to the
gcommissioning as businessh. 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 buildingfs 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.
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7/2007 Non-profit Organization Building Services
Commissioning Association, BSCA Nobuo Nakahara THE
CHAIRMAN
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