This website is intended to provide anybody the opportunity to develop a highly customized quality control program for their project.  The quality control process will include a series of forms  to be completed by hand or electronically.  The website is designed around new building construction commissioning.  It may also accommodate any project that would benefit from a similar quality control process.  The website will provide templates and starters to be utilized directly or as a basis for the development of a highly customized process.

Once the process has been developed for any particular project, it will be fully accessible over the internet.  The originator of the project will have control to grant various levels of access to any of the project team members.  The various team members will help generate and fill-out the forms.  The development and completion of the forms will be automatically tracked, the status of which will directly reflect the status of the project.

Commissioning is a quality control program that applies to building construction.  Similar quality control programs are applied to numerous industries such as naval construction, aeronautics, pharmaceuticals, etc.  The intent of the Commissioning process is to create a series of checks and balances that reduces or eliminates errors.  Commissioning is very broad and can be highly tailored.  The level of customization for the commissioning of any project depends upon the level of importance for reduced errors.  Mission critical facilities must have a very robust commissioning process while non-critical facilities may utilize a very generic commissioning process, if any commissioning at all.

In today's new building construction industry, several contributors can lead to lower quality construction.  First and foremost, budgets are becoming tighter.  This effects building owners as well as contractors, architects and engineers.   While the budget of the project is cut, Contractors, Architects and Engineers continue to watch their bottom line.  Everyone wants the project to be a success, but not at the cost of their company's profit.   Meanwhile, building designs are becoming more and more complex as architects strive to stand apart and engineering goals set new efficiency records.

Owner's
The term Value Engineering is a common reference to a list of things a building can do without.  When a project budget is stretched, the Architect and Engineers provide a list of items that can be cut with minimum effect to the project.  The Construction Managers will provide a cost for each item so the Owner can choose which items are worth cutting.  In some instances, this is where long term energy savings ideas are scrapped to save money up front.

Contractors
Contractors are becoming more specialized, which makes sub-contractors more expensive and managing them more difficult.  Contractors are becoming verify discipline specific.  A different contractor is hired for every other installation.  Even disciplines are being sub-divided.  Controls contractors hire sub-contractors to install equipment, conduit and wire.  Different contractors are utilized for plumbing and fire protection.  This has made it nearly impossible for the contractor team leader to know all the building details.  Ten years ago, the primary contractor was known as the General Contractor.  They might be a non-discipline specific contractor or any of the major contributing contractors.  However, even if the General Contractor wasn't one of the major contractors, they were somehow directly involved in part of the construction.  Nowadays, the primary contractor is known as the Construction Manager.  Construction Managers are generally hands-off.  They do not construct the building, they manage the contractors.

Designers
Design professionals are paid to provide  the design.  From their  perspective, after the contract documents are provided to the contractor, the contractor is legally responsible to meet their requirements.  However, the owner must call upon the expertise of the design professionals to verify the contract requirements have been met. 

Modern Technology
Finally, buildings are becoming more and more complex.  Energy  conservation and long term savings are a primary goal of all building  owners.  Old design concepts have been abandoned and replaced by much more complex designs that involve smart, responsive  buildings.  Taking all of these things into consideration, there is becoming more and more room for error.