Building commissioning process and documentation: a literature review and directions for future research

Abstract

The motivation of this paper is to examine and review the current study, gaps and trends in commissioning process and documentation in the architectural, engineering, construction, operation, and facility management (AECO-FM) industry and to propose future directions for imminent research area to revolutionized commissioning documentation in AECO-FM industry. In this paper, 66 research papers are studied to narrate the evolution of the commissioning process and documentation. This study discussed the current approach and studied adopted by the various retrieved research papers. Followed by identification of research gaps associated with on-going commissioning process and documentation. It has been found that limited studies focus on effective and automated building information sharing during commissioning and closeout stage for efficient building handover and O&M through its lifecycle. The automated digital practices to perform commissioning and handover process are still largely unknown. This study proposes novel approach for building information sharing through digital commissioning process. A scenario is presented to illustrate the application of digital commissioning process for building information sharing and verification of building assets. The proposed approach shows automatic and real-time information sharing with a holistic approach to perform building commissioning.

KEYWORDS:

• Building commissioning
• documentation
• real-time information
• digital process
• review

Acknowledgements

This research project was supported by the Stellar Group Inc, Jacksonville, Florida

Disclosure statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.