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The ICA Global Cx Standard is your strategic guide to complete projects cheaper and more efficiently. Find out how to apply this standard to your projects to meet cost and schedule objectives.

There are lots of bits and pieces of standards to reference for commissioning, but which ones apply to you industrial plant process and energy system projects? In this episode, we discuss the standards available and which one to use on your projects.

One of the biggest challenges with commissioning is getting management buy-in to support early commissioning involvement and a structured approach to completing project commissioning. There is a mindset that commissioning is only at the end of projects, it's only required for large projects, and it costs money rather than saves money. So how do you break these false beliefs with your management, to get them to support commissioning through all stages of projects to save time and money. Listen to see the best approach when planning for the these conversations.

Think of commissioning as piecing together a complex puzzle. A Commissioning Manager's job is to bring all the puzzle pieces together, ensuring no piece is overlooked and the final picture is complete and successful.

There are several commissioning standards that exist - each of the big companies have developed their own internal and proprietary standards for commissioning. But smaller companies that do not have the resources to create their own standard have no best-practices to follow. Or the standards that do exist to not include a comprehensive overview of commissioning best-practices. This has led to a fragmented industry, with everyone having a different approach to commissioning. Listen to learn about the ISA Global Commissioning Standard being created to help standardize the industry.

Experienced commissioning resources are getting harder and harder to find, as our wise commissioning experts are retiring and taking their expertise with them, and as project workloads are increasing. With the construction industry projected to double by 2040, where are project teams going to find commissioning managers to fill leadership roles? Listen to learn the options available.

Of course you realize you should have planned for commissioning earlier - but projects are busy, and that didn't happen. So now what? What do you do now that commissioning is only a few months away? How do you develop a plan fast, so there are no delays? Listen to this episode to find out.

Are you still using spreadsheets to manage and track commissioning? Listen to this episode to learn the benefits of commissioning software, some of the common objections with transitioning to software, and how to select the best CMS software for yout projects.

One of the primary reasons to engage your CxPM early in your project is to develop a systems-based approach. Without a systems-based approach, project teams have no ability to efficiently complete commissioning. Listen to understand what is a systems-based approach, and how to do this on your projects.

I'm sure you've heard commissioning folks say they need to be involved early in projects. Maybe you've wondered why you need testing at the beginning of your project. Listen to this episode to learn why your CxPM needs to be involved in your project during procurement and FEED processes.