School District of Greenville County, SC

In 2001, the School District of Greenville County, South Carolina, decided to undertake a massive $1 Billion building program to replace or renovate over sixty schools district wide. The program called for construction to begin in 2002 with final completion of all schools in the fall of 2006. Due to the size of the program, limited maintenance resources within the district, and a long history of
taking ownership of new buildings that didn’t work, the School District, the program manager, Institutional Resources, decided to fully commission the MEP systems on all of the projects.

KLG Jones was selected to provide the commissioning services starting in the spring of 2003. The first task was to help District achieve consistency in design and ensure conformance with the design guidelines through design reviews at the schematic, design development and construction document phases. Monthly commissioning visits were made to each job site during construction to review the work in progress and to monitor compliance with the contract documents. The commissioning teams prepared precommissioning check lists and functional performance tests for all of the installed equipment. Prior to functional testing the systems were balanced and the test and balance reports were validated thought random sampling techniques. After completion of the functional testing, the commissioning agents organized the entire owner training, which was videotaped for future reference by the District. The final reports were scanned to CDs along with drawings, O&M manuals, T&B reports and shop drawings. The files will be loaded on the school district servers so the maintenance data can be accessed by computers from anywhere in the district.

Architect: Various Location: Greenville, SC Number of Schools:
High Schools - 14 Middle Schools - 15 Elementary Schools - 18 Career Development Centers - 3	Child Development Centers - 4 Fine Arts Center - 1 Science Center - 1 Special Needs Schools - 2
Construction Cost: $1 Billion Completion: 2004 - 2007

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