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Continuous Commissioning Guidebook for Federal Energy Managers

This guidebook presents a comprehensive and ongoing process to resolve operating problems, improve comfort, optimize energy use, and identify retrofits for existing commercial and institutional buildings and central plant facilities. Continuous CommissioningSM (CCSM) has produced typical savings of 20% with payback under three years (often 1-2 years) in more than 130 large buildings.

The following documents are available as Adobe Acrobat PDFs. Download Adobe Reader.

Continuous Commissioning Guidebook for Federal Managers, October 2002 Cover (PDF 356 KB, 2 pp)
Introduction (PDF 838 KB, 17 pp)
Chapter 1: Introduction to Continuous Commissioning^SM (PDF 431 KB, 12 pp)
Chapter 2: Benefits of Continuous Commissioning^SM (PDF 1.9 MB, 12 pp)
Chapter 3: Basic CC^SM Measures (PDF 1.1 MB, 6 pp)
Chapter 4: CC^SM Measures for AHU Systems (PDF 5.5 MB, 39 pp)
Chapter 5: CC^SM Measures for Water/Steam Distribution Systems (PDF 2.3 MB, 17 pp)
Chapter 6: CC^SM Measures for Central Chiller (PDF 1.0 MB, 9 pp)
Chapter 7: CC^SM Measures for Central Heating Plants (PDF 820 KB, 9 pp)
Chapter 8: CC^SM Measures for Thermal Storage Systems (PDF 3.2 MB, 12 pp)
Chapter 9: Ensuring Optimum Building Performance (PDF 758 KB, 9 pp)
Appendix (PDF 2.6 MB, 20 pp)