Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 4 - Department of Economic Development › Division 340 - Division of Energy › Chapter 7 - State Building Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard › Section 4 CSR 340-7.010 - State Building Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule establishes a minimum energy
				  efficiency standard for construction of a state building, substantial
				  renovation of a state building where major energy systems are involved, or a
				  building which the state or state agency considers for acquisition or lease.
				  This standard or its application will be modified through the In-Addition
				  process of the Missouri Register, as appropriate, to reduce life-cycle costs of
				  state building occupancy.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following material is incorporated
				  into this rule by reference:
1)
American Society of Heating,
				Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc.,
ASHRAE Standard
				Energy Efficient Design of New Buildings
Except Low-Rise Residential
				Buildings (Atlanta: American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and
				Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc., 1989);
2)
American Society of Heating,
				Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc.,
ASHRAE Standard
				Energy-Efficient Design of New Low-Rise Residential Buildings
(Atlanta:
				American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers,
				Inc., 1993);
3)
Council of American Building Officials,
Model Energy Code
(Falls Church, VA: The Council of American Building Officials,, 1993);
				and
4)
Council of
				American Building Officials,
Model Energy Code
(Falls Church, VA:
				The Council of American Building Officials, 1994 Amendments).
In accordance with section
				  536.031(4),
				  RSMo, the full text of material incorporated
				  by reference will be made available to any interested person at the Office of
				  the Secretary of State and the headquarters of the adopting state
				  agency.
(1) Definitions. The
				following terms used in this rule shall mean:
(A) Addition-Construction on an existing
				state-owned building where the building gross floor area increases by more than
				one hundred (100) square feet;
(B)
				ASHRAE-American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning
				Engineers, Inc.;
(C) Building life
				cycle costing-A method of economic evaluation that accounts for all costs,
				depreciation, incentives, taxes, inflation, and the time value of money over
				the lifetime of a building or over the first twenty-five (25) years after the
				construction or renovation is completed. Costs include initial materials,
				labor, and salvage credit; energy, operation, maintenance, and replacement over
				the lifetime; final salvage; and interest or discount over the lifetime.
				Typically a lowest initial cost approach serves as a baseline, and all other
				approaches are compared using one (1) or more of the following analysis tools:
				total life cycle cost, savings to investment ratio, net benefit, internal rate
				of return, or adjusted internal rate of return. Each analysis tool produces the
				same result which is the lowest present value of total cost of a building over
				its lifetime;
(D) Minimum Energy
				Efficiency Standard-
ASHRAE 90.1, Energy Efficient Design of New
				Buildings Except Low Rise Residential Buildings
(latest edition), for
				all buildings that provide facilities or shelter for human occupancy and use
				energy primarily to provide human comfort, except single and multifamily
				residential buildings of three (3) or fewer stories above grade.
ASHRAE
				90.2, Energy Efficient Design of New Low Rise Residential Buildings
(latest edition), or the Council of American Building Officials
Model
				Energy Code
(CABO MEC)(latest edition) for single and multifamily
				residential buildings of three (3) or fewer stories above grade for all
				buildings that provide shelter for human occupancy and use energy primarily to
				provide human comfort. When a new edition of the minimum energy efficiency
				standard is published by the sponsoring organization, its use shall become
				effective three (3) months after said date of publication for all projects on
				which work has not been started. (This corresponds to the lease procurement
				date for buildings leased to the state, or the date of signing of a new
				building design contract for state-owned buildings.) Projects underway should
				be reviewed and upgraded to the new standard, but the effective date of the new
				standard shall not affect their prior design or approval;
(E) Must/shall/will-When the terms "must",
				"shall," or "will" are used herein, they designate mandatory
				provisions;
(F) Should-When the
				term "should" is used herein, it means that there is a strong expectation that
				the specified provision will be performed without a mandatory obligation to
				provide the requirement. When making this determination by the state agency
				evaluating the bids, costs of upgrading a building to meet specified provisions
				and resulting savings are to be considered. Building life cycle costing
				techniques are the ultimate tools for making this decision. However, in most
				cases, simple payback calculations combined with a broad experience base in
				energy conservation analysis will suffice for a final determination;
(G) Simple payback-The initial cost of an
				energy conservation measure divided by its annual cost savings. The units of
				the result are expressed in years;
(H) Substantial renovation-Construction on an
				existing state-owned building where energy can be saved, and where both of the
				following apply: the cost of the construction exceeds fifty percent (50%) of
				the estimated replacement cost of that building; and where the total capital
				improvements budget request exceeds two hundred thousand dollars
				($200,000).