Commissioning, preventive maintenance and facility maintenance windows

Skills you'll practise

• Describe the commissioning process from the owner's project requirements to acceptance, and the test stages common on data center projects
• Read a test result or issues log and decide whether a finding blocks acceptance
• Plan and check a facility maintenance window: redundancy state, pre-checks, go/no-go conditions, return to service and records
• Explain retro- and ongoing commissioning and verify savings with before-and-after measurements

Course outline

1. 1.Commissioning and maintenance windowsVideo · 2 min
2. 2.Commissioning: proving the facility does what was askedLesson · 18 min
3. 3.Preventive maintenance and the facility windowLesson · 19 min
4. 4.Retro-commissioning and ongoing commissioningLesson · 16 min
5. 5.Commissioning, preventive maintenance and facility maintenance windows: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 19 questions
6. 6.Commissioning, preventive maintenance and facility maintenance windows: practical exerciseKnowledge check · 1 question
7. 7.UPS module maintenance: the pre-check that failsScenario
8. 8.Final exam8 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out

Sources it draws on

The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.

• ASHRAE standards and guidelines: titles, purposes and scopes (Guideline 0 The Commissioning Process, Guideline 0.2, Guideline 0.3P, Guideline 1.1, Standard 202, Standard 90.4)
• Uptime Institute Journal: Explaining the Uptime Institute's Tier Classification System (April 2021 update)
• NFPA 4: Standard for Integrated Fire Protection and Life Safety System Testing (scope summary)
• NFPA 70B: Standard for Electrical Equipment Maintenance (scope summary)
• NFPA 25: Standard for the Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance of Water-Based Fire Protection Systems (scope summary)
• OSHA 29 CFR 1910.160: Fixed extinguishing systems, general
• U.S. DOE FEMP: Retro-Commissioning Increases Data Center Efficiency at Low Cost (Savannah River Site case study)
• General data-center facilities operations practice