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Commissioning
Software Built for Better Learning Environments

Manage commissioning across schools and campuses with one platform for design reviews, equipment, checklists, functional testing, issues, meetings, reporting, and closeout documentation.

Blake
Nick Alpers
Sergio
Connor Tobin
30k+ users worldwide
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PFC on AHU

Trusted for School and Campus Commissioning

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Keep Education Commissioning Moving From Design Through Opening Day

Education projects must balance construction milestones with academic calendars, occupied buildings, and the needs of the people who will operate each facility.

Bluerithm brings commissioning information together so project teams can identify incomplete work, coordinate testing, resolve deficiencies, and prepare facilities staff for handover.

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Track Readiness Across Schools and Campuses

See commissioning status by school, campus, building, system, equipment, or project phase. Identify outstanding work before it affects an opening date or return to occupancy.

Apply Consistent Commissioning Standards

Use shared forms and procedures across capital programs while adapting them for classrooms, laboratories, residence halls, athletic facilities, and other building types.

Keep Issue Resolution Accountable

Give each deficiency a clear owner and connect it to the equipment, location, test results, and documentation needed for resolution.

Prepare Facilities Teams for Handover

Build an organized record of testing, issues, training, and equipment documentation throughout the project.

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One Platform for Education Commissioning

Manage commissioning work across new construction, renovations, building additions, and system upgrades without losing sight of individual project requirements.

Organize Equipment and Systems

Keep equipment records connected to the checks, tests, issues, and supporting files that document their commissioning progress.

Complete Digital Reviews and Tests

Give teams a consistent way to document design comments, installation checks, functional testing, and follow-up verification.

Manage Outstanding Issues

Maintain a shared issue log so contractors, commissioning providers, and owner representatives can track responses and verify corrections.

Make Progress Visible

Use project dashboards to help teams understand completion status, testing progress, and remaining work.

Produce Consistent Reports

Create reports for project meetings, owner updates, testing results, and final closeout using information already recorded in Bluerithm.

Connect Office and Field Teams

Access commissioning information from computers, phones, and tablets, with offline workflows for locations with limited connectivity.

Configure Bluerithm Around Your Education Commissioning Process

A classroom renovation, research laboratory, and central plant upgrade require different commissioning approaches. Your software should accommodate those differences while supporting the standards shared across your institution.

Configure Bluerithm around your project organization, equipment, responsibilities, forms, and reporting needs.

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Flexible Project Organization

Structure information around districts, campuses, buildings, wings, floors, rooms, systems, and project phases.

Workflows That Reflect Your Requirements

Define the steps needed for reviews, installation verification, testing, corrections, approvals, and closeout.

Reusable District and Campus Standards

Create templates that help internal teams and outside commissioning providers follow a consistent process.

Support for Expanding Capital Programs

Use the same platform for an individual school project or a program involving multiple campuses and construction teams.

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Turn Your Education Commissioning Standards Into Repeatable Templates

Capture your institution’s expectations in reusable templates, then refine them as teams learn from completed projects.

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Equipment Type Templates

Digitize Education Commissioning Reviews, Checklists, and Test Procedures

Give every project team a clear way to record results and supporting evidence. Adapt forms to the equipment, systems, and acceptance criteria required for each facility.

Use digital workflows for:

Keep School and Campus Equipment Connected to Its Commissioning Record

Make it easier to understand the status of an individual asset without searching through separate files.

Import equipment information, apply the appropriate forms, and keep test results, photos, issues, and documents associated with each record.

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Keep Education Commissioning Issues Moving Toward Resolution

Capture deficiencies when they are identified and give the responsible team the information needed to respond.

Whether an issue concerns classroom ventilation, a laboratory exhaust sequence, or a missing training record, keep its status and supporting evidence visible.

Connect Commissioning Information to School and Campus Drawings

Use PDF markups and pins to help teams locate equipment, commissioning work, and deficiencies on building plans.

Connect records to classroom layouts, mechanical rooms, laboratory plans, electrical drawings, and control diagrams so field teams can find the right information while working.

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Keep Commissioning Meetings Connected to Follow-Up Work

Bring commissioning providers, contractors, design teams, and facilities representatives together around a clear record of decisions and next steps.

See Education Commissioning Progress in Real Time

Give project teams and institutional leaders a useful view of commissioning progress without requiring another round of spreadsheet updates.

Configure dashboards around the information each audience needs, including:

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Monitor Commissioning Across Your District or Campus Portfolio

Bring multiple projects into a portfolio view so facilities and capital project leaders can see where attention is needed.

Review progress across school modernizations, new academic buildings, residence hall renovations, utility upgrades, and other active projects while retaining access to each project’s details.

Build Education Commissioning Reports From Current Project Information

Spend less time collecting updates and more time reviewing what they mean for the project.

Use Bluerithm’s report builder to assemble recorded commissioning information into consistent deliverables for owners, contractors, and facilities teams.

Create:

Site Observations Report
Building Final Commissioning Report
Bluerithm mobile app

Complete Commissioning Work Where It Happens

Take commissioning procedures and equipment information into classrooms, mechanical rooms, laboratories, residence halls, and central plants.

Use phones, tablets, or laptops to record test results, capture photos, update issues, review drawings, and document field observations. Offline access supports work in areas where connectivity is limited.

Save Time With AI-Assisted Project Setup

Reduce repetitive preparation work so your team can focus on project requirements and technical review.

Draft Checklists and Tests With AI

Use Bluerithm’s AI tools to create starting points for equipment checks and functional testing procedures.

Equipment Schedule Import Tool AI

Create Equipment Records With AI

Convert equipment schedule screenshots into editable records to help prepare projects more efficiently.

Review extracted information, check field mappings, and confirm asset names before connecting equipment to your commissioning forms and workflows.

Prepare Project User Lists With AI

Use contact lists, emails, spreadsheets, or screenshots to help assemble project participants.

Review extracted names, companies, roles, and disciplines before adding commissioning providers, contractors, consultants, and institutional staff.

Connect Commissioning With Your Project Technology

Use Bluerithm’s integration options to support information sharing across your construction and reporting workflows.

Bluerithm API

Programmatically access data from your Bluerithm account and projects.

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Bluerithm MCP Server

Connect Bluerithm with agentic AI tools and create AI-powered commissioning workflows using your project information.

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Procore Integration

Create embedded dashboards and integrate data to synchronize Procore Observations and Bluerithm Issues.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud Integration

Create embedded dashboards and integrate data to synchronize ACC and Bluerithm Issues.

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Manage Commissioning Across Education Building Systems

Keep checks, tests, issues, and documentation organized across the systems included in each project’s commissioning scope.

HVAC and Mechanical Systems

Document commissioning for classroom air-handling systems, terminal units, boilers, chillers, pumps, exhaust equipment, and central plant systems.

Building Automation and Controls

Verify operating schedules, occupancy modes, sensors, alarms, trends, and control sequences against the project’s requirements.

Electrical and Lighting Systems

Manage records for electrical distribution, lighting controls, emergency power, metering, and other specified systems.

Plumbing and Domestic Water

Organize commissioning activities for domestic hot water, pumps, water treatment, and specialty plumbing systems.

Fire and Life Safety

Document assigned testing and coordination activities for fire alarms, smoke control, emergency communications, and related interfaces.

Building Enclosure

Track reviews, observations, testing, and deficiencies involving roofs, walls, windows, doors, and waterproofing.

Indoor Environmental Conditions

Record verification of ventilation, temperature, humidity, and pressure relationships in classrooms, laboratories, and other occupied spaces.

Laboratory and Specialty Systems

Configure commissioning procedures for laboratory exhaust, fume hoods, specialty utilities, kitchen equipment, athletic facilities, and other project-specific systems.

Campus Energy Systems

Manage commissioning records for central utility upgrades, solar installations, energy storage, EV charging, and other campus energy projects.

Built for Everyone Involved in Education Commissioning

Give each participant access to the commissioning information needed to complete their work and understand project progress.

Commissioning Providers

Manage technical reviews, field testing, issues, reporting, and closeout across education projects.

District and University Capital Project Teams

Monitor outstanding work and handover status across individual projects and larger capital programs.

Architects and Engineers

Review comments, respond to deficiencies, and document decisions affecting design intent and system operation.

General Contractors

Coordinate contractor responsibilities, testing prerequisites, corrective work, and closeout deliverables.

Trade Contractors and Controls Specialists

Complete assigned forms, provide documentation, respond to issues, and support testing.

Facilities and Operations Staff

Participate in commissioning and training with access to equipment information, test records, and outstanding items.

LEED Checklists

Support Institutional Standards, LEED, and Project Requirements

Organize the evidence needed to document commissioning work against applicable project requirements.

Configure forms and deliverables around district or campus standards, owner requirements, LEED commissioning scope, applicable codes, and project-specific acceptance criteria.

Free Resource

Owner's Guide to Better Commissioning Visibility and Closeout

Explore Education Commissioning Projects Using Bluerithm

See how education-focused teams have used Bluerithm to organize commissioning work and support consistent project delivery.

San Diego Unified School District

San Diego Unified School District

Learn how SDUSD used cloud-based commissioning workflows to support its modernization and new construction program.

Green Star Engineering

See how Green Star Engineering moved its commissioning process to Bluerithm while supporting a school district’s HVAC controls replacement program.

Bring Better Commissioning Visibility to Every School and Campus Project

Keep equipment, reviews, testing, issues, meetings, and reporting connected from project setup through facilities handover.

 

Build a repeatable process across your education portfolio while giving each project team the flexibility to address its building systems and institutional requirements.

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