Effective Project Management

Section S Commissioning and Setting To Work

And see! she stirs!

She starts – she moves – she seems to feel

The thrill of life along her keel.

‘The Building of the Ship’, 1849, line 349, Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

On the basis of involving the user in the earlier stages, it is important to get the client's operations personnel involved in the commissioning process. Get them to start taking ownership by using them to witness tests for vendor equipment.

1

Get the right people; see Section D Mobilization, paragraphs 1.1 to 1.5.

1.1

Review and approve staffing for the commissioning representative (or team) in the home office and the team for the field.

1.1.1

Get the commissioning representative involved in the design process early on and build relationships with the client's users.

1.2

Agree the measurement tolerances for tests and proving runs as soon as possible in the design phase. As time passes, it will be much more difficult to get them approved. See similar references; Section O, paragraph 2.2.1, and Part III, Section E, paragraph 2.24.

1.3

As project manager, think about facilitating the transfer of power from the construction manager to the commissioning manager. This must happen before systems go live/hot and process fluids are involved.

1.4

Initiate commissioning start packs early in the construction phase. This involves changing the project perspective from an area basis to a systems basis.

1.5

Review and approve plans and procedures ...