Reduce the Risk of Flooring Failure Through Flooring Commissioning
What is Flooring Commissioning?
Flooring Commissioning is a quality-focused process that reduces the risk of flooring failure and warranty denial. Owner-hired, independent verification and documentation, from design through turnover, confirm that the flooring installation is compliant with specifications and manufacturers' requirements.
Why Flooring Commissioning is needed now
- Warranty requirement lists got longer. More conditions must be met and documented to keep the warranty valid.
- Warranty requirements change after design and award. Manufacturers regularly update their requirements, creating a moving target between design, procurement, and installation.
- Manufacturers require independent documentation. They increasingly require third-party verification and documentation of key installation conditions for warranty coverage.
- Flooring is installed on an honor system. Installers typically self-certify that requirements were met, with no independent verification.
Four questions for your next project
- Who independently verifies that the installation complies with your specifications and the manufacturers' requirements?
- Who finds installation errors while they can still be corrected, before the floor covers them?
- Who monitors that the required environmental conditions are maintained after the flooring contractor has left the site?
- Who provides you with independent documentation that the warranty requirements were met, so you can support a warranty claim?
What the Owner receives
- Requirements Alignment: written notice, before installation, of where the Contract Documents, approved submittals, and manufacturers' instructions do not agree.
- Notice of Verified Readiness: installation does not start in an area until preinstallation verification is documented.
- Continuous Monitoring: an automated record of ambient temperature and relative humidity from material delivery through Substantial Completion, with remote access for the Owner.
- Final Commissioning Report: an indexed digital record at Substantial Completion, including the manufacturers' post-installation requirements for continued warranty validity.
Attendees learn to
- Describe why flooring failure risk is concealed once flooring is installed, and why the majority of flooring warranty claims are denied as a result.
- Explain how Flooring Commissioning reduces failure risk to the lowest achievable level through independent verification and documentation at defined project gates.
- Identify where flooring failure risk originates, and how unverified conditions lead to poor indoor air quality, mold growth, and trip hazards.
- Apply Section 01 91 23.73 to incorporate Flooring Commissioning into project documents.
Schedule
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Presenter
CertiFloor® Principal. Chemical engineer, 25+ years commercial flooring contractor, independent flooring inspector, member of the ASTM F06 Resilient Floor Coverings Committee. About CertiFloor®
The course provider is a registered provider of AIA-approved continuing education under Provider Number 10144722. All registered AIA CES Providers must comply with the AIA Standards for Continuing Education Programs. This learning program is registered with AIA CES for continuing professional education. As such, it does not include content that may be deemed or construed to be an approval or endorsement by the AIA of any material of construction or any method or manner of handling, using, distributing, or dealing in any material or product.
You don't get the floor you specify.
You get the floor you verify.
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