NASA RELIABILITY CENTERED BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT ACCEPTANCE GUIDE (JUL 2004)

NASA RELIABILITY CENTERED BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT ACCEPTANCE GUIDE (JUL 2004)., his guide is a technical reference for design engineers, project/program managers, construction managers/inspectors, contractor quality control and NASA quality assurance staff, and NASA researchers to use prior to and during the equipment start-up/checkout phase of new construction, repair, or rehabilitation projects. It presents methods for ensuring that building equipment and systems installed by the contractor have been installed properly and contain no identifiable defects that will shorten the design life of the equipment. It identifies these methods and technologies so that they can be incorporated into the design of the equipment and subsequent operation and maintenance phases. These technologies, commonly called Predictive Testing & Inspection (PT&I), will be essential elements in NASA’s Quality Control program to test, accept, and maintain building systems and equipment. PT&I technologies have been used by world-class corporations and Malcolm Baldridge Quality Award winners extensively for acceptance testing and condition monitoring because they reduce costs while improving safety and reliability. This guide is not intended to limit the inspection and acceptance process to the use of PT&I techniques. In addition to the comprehensive and detailed commissioning guides, criteria and standards published by subject matter expert organizations such as the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), this guide is designed to complement other NASA documents such as the Reliability Centered Maintenance Guide for Facilities and Collateral Equipment1 and the NASA Facilities Maintenance Management Handbook. For ease of use, some information from those documents is included in this guide.