ABSTRACT
The management of commissioning oversees a change in emphasis from construction to the delivery of a functioning project. It is not a road to be travelled hopefully in the time remaining after construction, but a journey that must be planned, organized, coordinated and controlled. It is a journey to be completed on time and for this there needs to be a strategy. For the PC’s site management team the strategy for arriving on time is simple. Using the handover date they should produce a backwardslooking commissioning programme. The strategic management programme of construction in Fig. 3.1, expanded with commissioning detail, becomes Fig. 9.1, our backwards-looking strategy for the management process. As the backwards-looking commissioning programme meets forward moving construction there will be clashes to be overcome and a carefully studied order of priority needs to be established.
