ICEQA Commissioning & Management Ltd is a specialist independent commissioning and quality assurance firm based on the North Shore of Auckland. Founded by a seasoned mechanical engineer with over 17 years of hands-on HVAC experience, ICEQA provides rigorous commissioning, pre-commissioning, and project management services across New Zealand's most demanding commercial, industrial, and healthcare environments.
We are a family-operated business with the agility to serve any project — from a single fan commissioning to a full hospital campus — delivering the same precision, accountability, and technical depth every time. Our independence means our loyalty is always to performance and compliance, never to any trade contractor or supplier.
From construction monitoring and commissioning management through to Building Warrant of Fitness validation and retro-commissioning, ICEQA brings structured methodology and documented accountability to every scope we touch. When systems are right from the start, occupants are comfortable, energy is used efficiently, and maintenance teams inherit assets they can actually manage.
End-to-end commissioning management for HVAC and building services — from design review through to post-handover training.
Commissioning of AHUs, FCUs, VAVs, CAVs, fans, pumps, chilled water, heating water, condenser water, and cooling tower systems. We set design parameters, balance flows, and configure BMS operating parameters to deliver engineered performance.
We facilitate coordination meetings, collaborate with installation teams to verify QA completion, track project progress, and report directly to Project Managers and Directors. Gaps are caught before they become defects.
Developing project-specific commissioning plans, documentation & reports, sequencing workloads against programme, managing TAB teams on site, and completing installation QA. Our structured plans become the backbone of a successful handover.
Opening dampers, recording nameplate data, applying asset tags, checking and pre-setting control valve dial settings, verifying actuator operation on temperature, humidity, and pressure sensors — every item documented before functional testing begins. Comprehensive QA checks on fire dampers and smoke dampers as shown on drawings, verifying correct installation, operation, and documentation against NZ building code requirements.
Full planning and site management of chemical pipe cleaning. Operating pumps, configuring valve arrangements, measuring differential pressures, chemically dosing system water, draining low points and venting high points — complete records kept throughout.
Investigating existing system performance and conditions. Troubleshooting root causes, identifying installation, design and commissioning deficiencies, and bringing ageing systems back to their intended performance. Ideal for buildings with energy, comfort, or compliance concerns.
Best carried out at design stage or pre-order, these reviews identify equipment and configuration choices that will create commissioning difficulty. We collaborate with design engineers to eliminate problems before they are built in.
Capping duct sections, connecting fan units, pressurising the system and measuring air leakage to demonstrate compliance with specified leakage classes. Results documented and reported for contract sign-off.
Reviewing maintenance records for SS9 and testing Specified Systems SS5, SS13.1 and SS13.2 to issue Form 12A for annual BWoF compliance. As an Auckland IQP (113495) holder, Ilyas is authorised to sign off these inspections directly.
Record keeping through the commissioning process and preparation of comprehensive Operation and Maintenance manuals. Post-handover training for client and maintenance teams in plain and / or technical language.
A family-operated business built on 17 years of deep technical expertise and a commitment to honest, collaborative work.
With over 17 years of hands-on experience commissioning complex HVAC systems across New Zealand's largest commercial, industrial, and healthcare projects, Ilyas brings an exceptional depth of technical knowledge to every engagement. His career spans senior roles at previous companies where he led commissioning teams, managed project transitions to maintenance, and developed rigorous QA plan structures adopted across major DHB projects.
Ilyas possesses extensive expertise in HVAC and BMS systems, with a proven track record of leading multidisciplinary technical teams including draftsmen, mechanical engineers, and commissioning technicians. He is skilled in interpreting project requirements, managing programmes, sequencing workloads, and coordinating multiple teams to achieve key milestones and optimal performance outcomes. He is adept at developing project-specific Quality Assurance Plans covering flushing, pre-commissioning, and commissioning activities, and experienced in creating testing methodologies, technical procedures, and detailed reports.
A self-motivated team player with outstanding interpersonal skills, Ilyas builds strong collaborative relationships with clients and commissioning teams through open, honest, and clear communication at all levels. His exceptional analytical aptitude for troubleshooting and fault-finding, combined with his proactive approach to reviewing designs and identifying potential issues before they become site problems, make him a trusted partner for builders, mechanical sub-contractors, owners, and design engineers alike.
No project is too small or too large. We bring the same precision to a single fan as to an entire hospital campus.
Certain installation and commissioning deficiencies appear again and again across projects. Caught during installation QA, pre-commissioning, or retro-commissioning reviews, these recurring errors are entirely avoidable — yet when they slip through undetected, the downstream consequences compound quickly. What might take minutes to correct on site during construction can translate into days of remedial work during commissioning, performance shortfalls that persist through the building's operational life, and delays that put handover programmes under real pressure. Some deficiencies don't surface at all until a retro-commission or a BWoF inspection forces the issue — by which point rectification is both costly and disruptive. Understanding what these look like, and why they happen, is part of what ICEQA brings to every project.
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