RONALD J. WILKINSON , P.E. Staff Engineer, State of Montana, Architecture and Engineering Division, Helena, Mont.

Commissioning: A Quality Assurance Process

Commissioning is not primarily a process of error identification. It is a quality-assurance program-undertaken while the workforce is still on the site and before the damage is done. When the commissioning process begins in the planning and design phase, it can be the ounce of prevention that eliminates the pound of cure required in the final project stages.