John G. Kalb

We hear it all the time. If the design is solid and the contractors are trustworthy, we shouldn’t need to spend a portion of our limited resources for a formal commissioning procedure. Owners and building…

Contract documents, and particularly the project specifications, often contain a more stringent set of expectations than the local and national codes. While this may be obvious to many professionals, this concept comes as a surprise to some contractors who have been trained to make their installations code-compliant with little emphasis on the owner’s or engineer’s design criteria.