Awareness and knowledge of building commissioning and recommissioning are relatively low across all target groups. Building owners, designers and contractors see clear benefits from building commissioning. Barriers to building commissioning cited most often included lack of time, budgetary constraints, and difficulty in getting cooperation among all parties. Further research will be needed to document the disadvantages, barriers, and actual costs before it can be decided whether building commissioning is or is not the most effective avenue to better buildings. Commissioning appears to be perceived as an extra service that would add to project costs.
Quality assurance is perceived as an integral cost or service.
Few owners, designers, and contractors have worked with or as a commissioning authority. Few designers and contractors report that they already routinely provide the full complement of building commissioning services in providing quality assurance to their customers. Education and marketing are seen by study participants as the best means to increase the practice of building commissioning. 172- 1 using our order form .