HVAC Commissioning & Qualification Insights

The insights are divided into three categories: Commissioning, Qualification and Beyond HVAC CQ.

• System boundaries: How to draw sensible system boundaries?
• C&Q sequence: What’s the sequence of milestones from Mechanical Completion to Performance Qualification?
• Commissioning delay: How to avoid three classic pitfalls that delay commissioning right at the start?
• System walk-down: How to systematically walk-down a system?
• Air balancing: How to do air balancing for a biopharma facility?
• HVAC Commissioning: How to commission HVAC systems for a biopharma facility?
• HVAC troubleshooting: How to Systematically Troubleshoot HVAC Commissioning Problems?
• Commissioning protocol: Why is a well-written HVAC commissioning protocol a game changer?
• Coming up…
  • How to conduct a Site Acceptance Test (SAT) for an Air Handling Unit (AHU)?

• HVAC quality checks: How to Raise the Quality of HVAC Qualification
• ISO 14644 (latest): What if You’re Stuck on a Flight With Nothing to Read Except ISO 14644
• FDA GMP: What Will You Get if You Pass FDA’s GMP Regulations Through a Special HVAC Filter
• HVAC OQ tests: What to test for HVAC Operational Qualification (OQ)?
• Qualification prerequisites: What are the key prerequisites to HVAC qualification?
• Leveraging: What can be leveraged from commissioning to Operational Qualification (OQ)?
• HVAC qualification: Step by step, how to qualify HVAC systems?
• Warehouse qualification: How to do temperature mapping for warehouse qualification?
• EU GMP: What’s the “Actionable Gist” of EU GMP for HVAC?
• Alarm delays: How to Set Alarm Delays for GMP Differential Pressure Alarms
• Design Qualification (DQ): What is HVAC Design Qualification (DQ) and How To Do It?
• Coming up…
  • What’s inside and outside the qualification boundary of a typical Air Handling Unit system?
  • Why airflow visualization test is not as simple as it appears?

• ISO 14644-16 (Latest): ISO 14644-16: Are 50 Pages Worth $500,000 of Energy Savings?
• Project Management: Project Schedule: A Knife that Divides the Team or Glue that Unites?
• Artificial intelligence: What Happens When HVAC and AI Meet Over Drinks
• Lessons learned: Biopharma Projects – 7 Random Lessons
• Energy saving: How to Save Energy by Trimming Excessive Air Changes (ACH) in Cleanrooms
• Project management: The Law of Karma
• Failing to plan: The Subtle Art of Not Screwing Projects
• High humidity nightmare: Is <65% relative humidity a safe bet with untreated fresh air in Singapore?
• HVAC design review: How to Systematically Review HVAC Design and Improve its Quality?
• User requirements: How to Avoid Extra Cost, Delays and Confusion by One Simple Step: Writing User Requirements at the Very Beginning
• Project choices: How to Avoid Project Choices That Bite Back Later

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The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein