AN ACT Relating to
energy conservation in design of public facilities; and amending RCW 39.35.030,
39.35.040, and 39.35.050.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 39.35.030 and 1991 c
201 s 14 are each amended to read as follows:
For the purposes of this
chapter the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings
unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
(1) "Public
agency" means every state office, officer, board, commission, committee,
bureau, department, and all political subdivisions of the state.
(2) "Office"
means the Washington state energy office.
(3) "Major
facility" means any publicly owned or leased building having twenty-five
thousand square feet or more of usable floor space.
(4) "Initial
cost" means the moneys required for the capital construction or renovation
of a major facility.
(5)
"Renovation" means additions, alterations, or repairs within any
twelve-month period which exceed fifty percent of the value of a major facility
and which will affect any energy system.
(6) "Economic
life" means the projected or anticipated useful life of a major facility
as expressed by a term of years.
(7) "Life-cycle
cost" means the initial cost and cost of operation of a major facility
over its economic life. This shall be calculated as the initial cost plus the
operation, maintenance, and energy costs over its economic life, reflecting
anticipated increases in these costs discounted to present value at the current
rate for borrowing public funds, as determined by the office of financial
management. The energy cost projections used shall be those provided by the state
energy office. The office shall update these projections at least every two
years.
(8) "Life-cycle
cost analysis" includes, but is not limited to, the following elements:
(a) The coordination and
positioning of a major facility on its physical site;
(b) The amount and type
of fenestration employed in a major facility;
(c) The amount of
insulation incorporated into the design of a major facility;
(d) The variable
occupancy and operating conditions of a major facility; and
(e) An energy-consumption
analysis of a major facility.
(9) "Energy
systems" means all utilities, including, but not limited to, heating,
air-conditioning, ventilating, lighting, and the supplying of domestic hot
water.
(10)
"Energy-consumption analysis" means the evaluation of all energy
systems and components by demand and type of energy including the internal
energy load imposed on a major facility by its occupants, equipment, and
components, and the external energy load imposed on a major facility by the
climatic conditions of its location. An energy-consumption analysis of the
operation of energy systems of a major facility shall include, but not be
limited to, the following elements:
(a) The comparison of
three or more system alternatives, at least one of which shall include
renewable energy systems;
(b) The simulation of
each system over the entire range of operation of such facility for a year's
operating period; and
(c) The evaluation of
the energy consumption of component equipment in each system considering the
operation of such components at other than full or rated outputs.
The energy-consumption
analysis shall be prepared by a professional engineer or licensed architect who
may use computers or such other methods as are capable of producing predictable
results.
(11) "Renewable
energy systems" means methods of facility design and construction and
types of equipment for the utilization of renewable energy sources including,
but not limited to, active or passive solar space heating or cooling, domestic
solar water heating, windmills, waste heat, biomass and/or refuse-derived
fuels, photovoltaic devices, and geothermal energy.
(12)
"Cogeneration" means the sequential generation of two or more forms
of energy from a common fuel or energy source. Where these forms are
electricity and thermal energy, then the operating and efficiency standards
established by 18 C.F.R. Sec. 292.205 and the definitions established by 18
C.F.R. 292.202 (c) through (m) as of July 28, 1991, shall apply.
(13) "Selected
buildings" means educational, office, residential care, and correctional
facilities that are designed to comply with the design standards analyzed and
recommended by the office.
(14) "Design
standards" means the heating, air-conditioning, ventilating, and renewable
resource systems identified, analyzed, and recommended by the office as
providing an efficient energy system or systems based on the economic life of
the selected buildings.
Sec. 2. RCW 39.35.040 and 1982 c
159 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:
((On and after
September 8, 1975)) Whenever a public agency determines that any
major facility is to be constructed or renovated, such agency shall
cause to be included in the design phase of such construction or renovation a
provision that requires a life-cycle cost analysis conforming with the
guidelines developed in RCW 39.35.050 to be prepared for such facility.
Such analysis shall be approved by the agency prior to the commencement of
actual construction or renovation. A public agency may accept the facility
design if the agency is satisfied that the life-cycle cost analysis provides
for an efficient energy system or systems based on the economic life of the
major facility.
Nothing in this section
prohibits the construction or renovation of major facilities which utilize
renewable energy systems.
Sec. 3. RCW 39.35.050 and 1991 c
201 s 15 are each amended to read as follows:
The office, in
consultation with affected public agencies, shall develop and issue guidelines
for administering this chapter. The purpose of the guidelines is to define a
procedure and method for performance of life-cycle cost analysis to promote the
selection of low-life-cycle cost alternatives. At a minimum, the guidelines
must contain provisions that:
(1) Address energy
considerations during the planning phase of the project;
(2) Identify energy
components and system alternatives including renewable energy systems and
cogeneration applications prior to commencing the energy consumption analysis;
(3) Identify
simplified methods to assure the lowest life-cycle cost alternatives for
selected buildings with between twenty-five thousand and one hundred thousand
square feet of usable floor area;
(4) Establish
times during the design process for preparation, review, and approval or
disapproval of the life-cycle cost analysis;
(((4))) (5)
Specify the assumptions to be used for escalation and inflation rates,
equipment service lives, economic building lives, and maintenance costs;
(((5))) (6)
Determine life-cycle cost analysis format and submittal requirements to meet
the provisions of chapter 201, Laws of 1991;
(((6)))
(7) Provide for review and approval of life-cycle cost analysis.
