by Jeff Yirak, P.E., CPMP, LEED AP BD+C, O+M This article is part of Wood Harbinger’s newsletter series. Whether its groceries, clothes, or commissioning consultants, more and more consumers and clients are interested in what they’re getting for the price they’re paying. While we may not come with stickers denoting us as local and organic, […]
Tag Archives: quality
Getting Antsy for ANSI Accreditation
by Bruce Pitts, CPMP, CSBA, LEED AP This article is part of Wood Harbinger’s newsletter series. Two and a half years, 72 documents, and 14.9 GB of data. That’s what it took for the Building Commissioning Certification Board (BCCB) to submit for American National Standards Institute (ANSI) ISO 17024:2012 accreditation. As of February 16th, the […]
Feedback Loop—Part 2: Design Experience in Commissioning
by Nick Baker, EIT, CCP, LEED AP BD+C This article is part of Wood Harbinger’s newsletter series. In the Part 1 companion to this article, we explored how the field experience of a commissioning engineer can aid in project design. Now we’ll explore how the specialized expertise of design engineers can help make the commissioning […]
Feedback Loop—Part 1: Commissioning Experience in Design
by Nick Baker, EIT, CCP, LEED AP BD+C This article is part of Wood Harbinger’s newsletter series. My uncle, who’s an Electrical Engineer, gave me this coffee cup:
Harnessing the Power of Hindsight in Quality to Cost Decisions
By Paul Greenwalt, EIT Recently, I had a conversation with a coworker about how hindsight works – sometimes we will endure amazing conditions created by certain choices, but when we look back, the better choice seems so clear and we wonder why we ever did what we did.