Achieving Success in the Commissioning and Startup of Capital Projects

IR312-2, Achieving Success in the Commissioning and Startup of Capital Projects (Volume 1)

This resource provides key guidance on how project teams can help ensure success in capital project commissioning and startup and includes:

• CSU Critical Success Factor Checklist Tool – To increase industry awareness and implementation of the CSU critical success factors. The tool conveys information on critical success factors, most influential indicators of CSF achievement, timing of implementation of CSFs and innovative commissioning tools and their application timing. (p. 33)
• Distinctions between pre-commissioning and commissioning – To clarify terms pre-commissioning and commissioning (p. 7)
• A detailed discussion of the barriers to implementing laggard CSFs – To mitigate most significant barriers to CSF achievement (p. 18)
• Links between the CSU critical success factors and quality and safety – To identify how failure to implement the CSF could threaten quality and safety performance (p. 25)
• Listing of project organizational functions involved in CSU – To determine who is typically involved in CSU activities (p. 12)

• The research documented and analyzed four mini-case studies to prevent causes of CSU failures. Listed which critical success factors were not achieved or were achieved too late and identified commonly neglected CSFs and six laggard CSFs as well.