This course shares building enclosure commissioning (BECx) lessons learned, highlighting how mock-up testing helps teams verify performance.
Learning objectives
- Discover examples of how solving both large and sometimes simple issues can save a huge amount of hardship.
- Identify how BECx can be adapted to confirm the performance of unique systems or situations.
- Understand how building enclosure (BE) mockups are critical to the final building.
- Learn how to work with BECx providers to understand objectives, test protocols and finally developing proper testing requirements for one-of-a-kind projects.
This course will present BECx lessons learned from projects, as well as a discussion of mock-up testing. It will cover an interesting, unconventional test method for one-of-a-kind components and samples of unique test strategies developed to confirm BECx components when field conflicts occur. Mock-up testing is an invaluable tool that is used to allow onsite pre-testing before components are installed on the main buildings.
Presenters:
Jeffrey Ng, AIA, LEED AP, Senior Manager, Intertek, Fairfield, Connecticut
Stephen Seller, P.Eng., EIT, BECxP+BE, Turnover/Commissioning Manager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Stephen Seller, P.Eng., E.I.T., CxA, BECxP, is Senior Project Turnover & Commissioning Manager at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. With extensive experience in building enclosure planning, MEP commissioning and project turnover, he previously held engineering roles in HVAC and refrigeration.
Many topics related to commissioning, AI advancements, building technology and energy management will be discussed at CxEnergy 2026, a conference and expo taking place April 21–24, 2026, in Chicago. Save the date and learn more at www.CxEnergy.com.
