As The Pages Turn: Advances in building autoation and control technologies – FESCH.TV

FESCH.TV INFORMIERT:

David Guberud, CxA
Rachel Rueckert, PE, QCxP, CxA, LEED AP

Abstract:
What is the best way to verify that the Owner, the Designers, the Mechanical Contractor, the Electrical Contractor, the Controls Contractor, and the Cx Provider all understand the project control submittal with its sequences and the interdependencies in the exact same way? The answer to this question is of course, a controls page turn meeting! There is a likelihood we have all seen the benefit of construction phase page turns of the control submittals or other technical submittals. While the benefits to having this meeting are large, the most important benefit is communicating in person and making sure that the team is on the same page. This is best conveyed in a face to face meeting – seeing people’s eyes of truthfulness, actual buy in, understanding by all. Our presentation is two sections: Section 1: We will focus on clarifying who should attend, how to properly prepare, and how to efficiently run this meeting. Section 2: We will perform an ‘on the spot’ inter-active page turn. We propose accomplishing this by having attendee’s role play as either an owner, contractor, building operator, or designer to review actual control submittals that we will provide, for questions that could or should be asked from all perspectives. As attendees are looking over information (we love your App, we can do this) we will be going over the core parts of the page turn (section 1). Our audience will likely be diverse in experience – some will want to hear and see the basics of section 1, others will be diving into the material provided. As we complete our ‘basics’ or section 1 presentation, we become the facilitator to go through the submittal pages provided to hear in an organized fashion what questions are being asked and then determine the answers by our roles (sidebar to ‘abstract reviewers’ this will be a fun challenge of Rachel and I to maintain control of a bunch of really smart people playing the roles of others). For the outcome, we will either come to the same conclusions or we will see the varying opinions and thoughts of the group.

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