Building enclosure commissioning—BECx—is intended to assure building quality by establishing an explicit process to verify that a building enclosure is designed and constructed to meet the owner’s ...

PORTLAND, Ore. - Building green has become the answer for many in the commercial building industry as a means to improve the quality, performance, and energy efficiency of their buildings and their ...

We read and hear about building failures and the related tragedies with those failures and ask – what went wrong? The most common and expensive sources of these building failures involve building ...

When embarking on multifamily building projects, there is a key component to ensuring your project is successful: commissioning. Commissioning ensures your building functions per the owner’s plans, ...

I have been reminded recently that building systems commissioning, as it has evolved and been defined in the North American building industry over the past 25 years, is not universally understood by ...

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When an architecture or civil engineering team begins the initial design process for a commercial building, there are several details to consider. While they often place emphasis on analyzing cost of ...