How Flooring Commissioning Works

Material Delivery Through Final Completion
Three verification events, with continuous monitoring running across them.

Basis of Verification

Verification is against the contract documents, the approved submittals, and the manufacturer's instructions.

1. Material Delivery Verification

At delivery of flooring materials to the site, the Flooring CxA verifies and documents that installation products match the manufacturer and type in the approved submittals, and records lot numbers.

The continuous monitoring equipment is installed on the same visit.

2. Pre-Installation Verification

Substrate testing. Testing is performed by others. The Flooring CxA observes it.

For tests it observes, the Flooring CxA verifies and documents:

  • The test method
  • The test location
  • Instrument calibration
  • The ambient and service conditions at the time of test

For all tests, it reviews the submitted reports and verifies the results are within the limits stated. The progress reports identify which tests were observed and which were verified by report review only.

Substrate condition. Cleanliness, surface preparation and profile, and treatment of cracks and movement joints.

Acclimation. Material acclimation and environmental conditions, verified against the continuous monitoring record.

This is the hold point. Flooring installation does not begin in an area, including application of any moisture mitigation system, primer, patching compound, or leveling compound, until this verification is documented for that area and flooring type.

3. Installation Verification

The Flooring CxA observes installation activities and verifies compliance, addressing:

  • Environmental conditions during installation
  • Adhesive application, including open time, working time, and coverage
  • Installation procedures, layout, seams, and welds
  • Protection of installed flooring, and cure periods before traffic and rolling loads

Continuous Monitoring

Continuous monitoring is unattended, automated recording of environmental data at a fixed interval, without interruption. Manual or spot readings are not continuous monitoring.

The Flooring CxA furnishes, installs, operates, and maintains the equipment. Monitoring begins no later than delivery of flooring materials to the site and continues through final completion. Temperature and relative humidity are recorded to a cloud platform, with remote access for the owner, the architect, the contractor, and the flooring contractor.

Independence

The Flooring CxA is engaged and compensated by the owner under separate agreement.

The Flooring CxA has no contractual, employment, ownership, or financial relationship with the flooring contractor, the flooring installer, the general contractor, the testing agency, the distributor, or the product manufacturer for the project.

Sampling

Verification is performed by sampling, at the rate established in the approved commissioning plan, consistent with the sampling approach in ASHRAE Guideline 0. The Flooring CxA does not observe every test or every installation activity.

Where sampling identifies a systemic issue, the contractor rechecks all affected work and corrects deficiencies.

Non-Compliant Work

The Flooring CxA records the deviation in the issues log with the expected date of correction, notifies the contractor and the architect, and tracks corrective action and resolution status.

Any issue not corrected by the expected date, and any issue that sampling indicates is systemic, is reported to the owner for the owner's direction.