Construction Magazine February 2018 | Page 12

LEADERSHIP & STRATEGY

are being upgraded to address this risk , so it ’ s going to become an essential part of design .”
Commissioning Modern buildings are exceedingly complex and any which are not properly commissioned will use upwards of 25 % more energy than they would have used , as well as not functioning to their optimum capacity . For Al Abbar , a mechanical engineering graduate , this is very much a bugbear that is all too prevalent within the industry . He does believe though , that with more companies using third parties which specialise in commissioning , the problem is being mitigated somewhat .
“ The historic practices of allowing MEP contractors to carry out their own testing and commissioning is like asking school children to mark their own exam papers , without
12 February 2018