Commissioning at Goetting & Associates has evolved over a 25 year period as it has in the A/E/C industry. It began with the creation of the Building Systems Management Group (BSM) in 1982. This group focused primarily on re-commissioning, retro-commissioning, on-going commissioning, and continuous commissioning. The clients consisted mainly of existing building owners such as GPM (two tenant office buildings), Methodist Hospital (a full service patient hospital), several high rise condominiums and Oak Hills Medical Office building.

In the early 1990’s we added building commissioning to new projects. This commissioning consisted of in-house design review, specification writing for the commissioning of the MEP systems and the actual pre-functional and functional commissioning of the MEP systems during construction. Some of the projects included in this genus were a 35,000 sf biomedical research laboratory complex with Bio-safety Level (BSL) 2, 3, and 4 labs for the Southwest Foundation, a 800,000 sf bank services building, and a 1 million sf home office building expansion for USAA.

In the twenty-first century we have continued to provide the commissioning services of the 1980’s and the 1990’s but have seen a dramatic increase in full blown independent commissioning service for clients such as Transwestern, Citigroup, the Port of San Antonio, and the Corps of Engineers. Over the last several years owners have increasingly realized the benefits of independent commissioning and LEED® certification. Benefits such as lower utility bills, improved environmental health and comfort, improved employee productivity, lower maintenance and operation costs, and improved occupancy safety are compelling. When coupled with a broad public awareness of sustainability and green concepts you have a persuasive argument for commissioning.

Commissioning has become such a large part of Goetting & Associates business that we have renamed our BSM group to Goetting Commissioning. Goetting Cx, like our keystone MEP consulting design services, is built on the basic concept of meeting the client’s needs. We realize that every client has their own specific needs and goals and that one size does not fit all. Therefore, we spend focused time upfront getting to know the client and finding out what their real needs and goals are. We furnish a wide range of commissioning services from Continuous Commissioning to being the client’s Commissioning agent (CxA) depending on the client and his needs.