Washington Administrative Code › Title 194 - Commerce, Department of (Energy) › Chapter 194-50 - Washington state department of commerce adoption and amendment of ASHRAE Standard 100, 2018 › Section 194-50-030 - ASHRAE Standard 100, 2018-Section 3-Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
3.1
General
Agricultural structure
:
A
				structure designed and constructed to house farm implements, hay, grain,
				poultry, livestock, or other horticultural products, and is not a place used by
				the public or a place of human habitation or employment where agricultural
				products are processed, treated, or packaged.
Applicable building codes
:
The
				Washington state building codes as adopted by the Washington state building
				code council, and as modified by local government amendments.
Authority having jurisdiction
				(AHJ)
:
Washington state department of commerce.
Benchmarking
:
The practice of
				comparing the measured performance of a device, process, facility, or
				organization to itself, its peers, or established norms, with the goal of
				informing and motivating performance improvement. When applied to
building
energy use,
benchmarking
serves as a
				mechanism to measure energy performance over time, relative to other similar
buildings
.
Building owner
:
An individual or
				entity possessing title to a
building
. In the event of a land
				lease, the
building owner
is the entity possessing title to
				the
building
on leased land. Where condominium structures are
				subject to the standard, "
building owner
" means the owners'
				association.
Building tenant
:
A person or
				entity occupying or holding possession of a
building
or
				premises pursuant to a rental agreement.
Campus
:
A
campus
is a collection of
buildings
served by a campus district
				heating, cooling, water reuse and/or power system owned by the same
building owner
.
Campus district heating and/or cooling
				system
:
A
district heating and/or cooling
				system
that serves a
campus
and is owned by the
building owner
.
Certified commissioning
				professional
:
A person who is certified by an ANSI/ISO/IEC
				17024:2012 accredited organization to lead, plan, coordinate, and manage
				commissioning teams and implement the commissioning process and with experience
				commissioning at least two projects of similar size and of similar equipment to
				the current project, and at least one in the last three years. This experience
				includes the writing and execution of verification checks and functional test
				plans.
Complex
:
A group of
buildings
interconnected by
conditioned
				spaces
on
contiguous property
.
Conditional compliance
:
A
				temporary compliance method:
(a) For
Tier 1 covered buildings
used by
building
			 owners
that demonstrates the owner has implemented energy use
			 reduction strategies required by the standard, but has not demonstrated full
			 compliance with the
energy use intensity target
.
(b) For
Tier 2 covered
			 buildings
used by
building owners
that demonstrates
			 the owner has benchmarked the
building
energy use in
			 accordance with the standard, and provides an additional 180 days for
building owner
to demonstrate full compliance with the energy
			 management plan (
EMP
) and operations and maintenance
			 (
O&M
) program documentation.
Conditioned space
:
An area, room
				or space that is enclosed within the
building's
thermal
				envelope and is directly heated or cooled or is indirectly heated or cooled.
				Spaces are indirectly heated or cooled where they communicate through openings
				with
conditioned spaces
, where they are separated from
conditioned spaces
by uninsulated walls, floors or ceilings,
				or where they contain uninsulated ducts, piping or other sources of heating or
				cooling. (also see,
semi-heated space
).
Connected buildings
:
A collection
				of
buildings
with shared energy meter(s) on
contiguous
				property
.
Contiguous property
:
Adjoining
				property under sole ownership.
Covered building
:
Includes
Tier 1 covered buildings
and
Tier 2 covered
				buildings
.
Director
:
The
director
of the department of commerce or the
director's
designee.
Discounted payback
:
The time when
				the accumulated savings achieved by an investment, discounted by the
				appropriate discount rate, equals the initial cost of the investment.
District heating and/or cooling
				system
:
A system that provides heating or cooling to multiple
buildings
through a distributed system providing steam, hot
				water, or cool water to
buildings
.
Energy target (EUI)
:
Not adopted.
				See
energy use intensity target
(
EUI
).
Energy use intensity (EUI)
:
A
				measurement that normalizes a
building's site energy
use
				relative to its size. A
building's energy use intensity
is
				calculated by dividing the total net energy consumed in one year by the
gross floor area
of the
building
, excluding
				the parking garage. "
Energy use intensity
" is reported as a
				value of a thousand British thermal units per square foot per year.
Energy use intensity target
				(EUIt)
:
The target for
net
				energy use
intensity of a
covered building
.
Gross floor area
:
The total
				number of square feet measured between the exterior surfaces of the enclosing
				fixed walls of a
building
, including all supporting functions
				such as offices, lobbies, restrooms, equipment, storage areas, mechanical
				rooms, break rooms, and elevator shafts.
Gross floor area
does
				not include outside bays or docks.
Gross floor area for residential
				buildings
:
Not adopted.
Gross floor area for nonresidential
				buildings
:
Not adopted.
Lighting schedule
:
A list that
				provides a count of all
luminaires
in the
building
, lighting controls, fixture types, and product
				information.
More recently built buildings
:
Buildings
or additions greater than 50,000 square feet in
				conditioned floor area permitted for construction based on the application
				permit date of July 1, 2016, or later. For example,
buildings
permitted to the 2015 edition of the Washington State Building Code,
				chapter 51-50 WAC.
Multifamily residential
				building
:
A covered multifamily
building
containing sleeping units or more than five dwelling units where occupants are
				primarily permanent in nature.
Net energy use
:
The sum of the
				metered and bulk fuel energy entering the
building
, minus the
				sum of metered energy leaving the
building
or campus.
				Renewable energy produced on a campus that is not attached to a
covered
				building
may be included. The same applies to portions of
buildings
with submetering. Bulk fuels are included using the
				equation in Section 5.2.2.1.
Physical occupancy
:
Space that is
				used by an owner or tenant regardless of occupant density and frequency of use.
				A
building
does not have
physical occupancy
and is considered unoccupied when 50 percent or more of the conditioned floor
				area is not leased or is otherwise vacant.
Qualified commissioning
				authority
:
Not adopted.
Qualified energy auditor
:
A
				person acting as the auditor of record having training, expertise and three
				years professional experience in
building
energy auditing and
				any one of the following:
(a) A
			 licensed professional architect or engineer;
(b) A building energy assessment professional
			 (BEAP) certified by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and
			 Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE);
(c) A certified energy auditor (CEA)
			 certified by the Association of Energy Engineers
			 (
AEE
).
Qualified energy manager (QEM)
:
An individual designated by the
building owner
who:
(a) Has two years of experience, including
			 educational and/or professional experience, with commercial
building
operations and/or
building
energy
			 management in addition to successful completion of clean buildings tier 2
			 training program as specified by the
AHJ
; or
(b) Meets the definition of a
qualified person
.
Qualified person
:
A person having
				training, expertise and three years professional experience in
building
energy use analysis and any of the following:
(a) A licensed professional architect or
			 engineer in the state of Washington;
(b) A person with Building Operator
			 Certification (BOC) Level II by the Northwest Energy Efficiency Council
			 (NEEC);
(c) A building
			 commissioning professional certified by an ANSI/ISO/IEC 17024:2012 accredited
			 organization;
(d) A
qualified energy auditor
;
(e) A certified energy manager (CEM) in
			 current standing, certified by the Association of Energy Engineers
			 (
AEE
);
(f) An
			 energy management professional (
EMP
) certified by the Energy
			 Management Association (EMA);
(g) A
			 person with South Seattle College Sustainable Building Science Technology
			 Bachelor of Applied Science degree, or as approved as equivalent by the
AHJ
.
The
AHJ
may prescribe additional
				certifications and training to meet the minimum qualifications of a
qualified person
. When the
AHJ
prescribes
				such additional qualifications, it will provide notice of the determination on
				the agency website and will periodically update these rules to reflect
				additional qualifications of
qualified persons
.
Recommissioning
:
An application
				of the commission process requirements to a project that has been delivered
				using the commissioning process.
Residential building
:
Not
				adopted.
Savings-to-investment ratio
:
The
				ratio of the total present value savings to the total present value costs of a
				bundle of an energy or water conservation measure estimated over the projected
useful life
of each measure. The numerator of the ratio is the
				present value of net savings in energy or water and nonfuel or nonwater
				operation and maintenance costs attributable to the proposed energy or water
				conservation measure. The denominator of the ratio is the present value of the
				net increase in investment and replacement costs less salvage value
				attributable to the proposed energy or water conservation measure.
Semi-heated space
:
An enclosed
				space within a
building
, including adjacent connected spaces
				separated by an uninsulated component (e.g., basements, utility rooms, garages,
				corridors) which:
(a) Is heated but
			 not cooled, and has an installed heating system output capacity greater than or
			 equal to 3.4 Btu/(h-ft2) but not greater than 8
			 Btu/(h-ft2);
(b) Is not a walk-in cooler, walk-in freezer,
			 refrigerated warehouse cooler or refrigerated warehouse freezer
			 space.
Service life
:
See
useful
				life
.
Simple payback (years)
:
The
				estimated initial cost of an
EEM
divided by the estimated
				annual cost savings of the measure expressed in years. The cost savings may
				include
energy cost
savings and incremental routine operations
				and maintenance costs or savings.
State equipment standards
:
Appliance and equipment standards listed in chapter 19.260 RCW, Energy
				efficiency.
Tier 1 covered building
:
A
building
where the sum of nonresidential, hotel, motel, and
				dormitory floor areas exceeds 50,000 gross square feet, excluding the parking
				garage area.
Tier 2 covered building
:
A
building
where the sum of multifamily residential,
				nonresidential, hotel, motel, and dormitory floor areas exceeds 20,000 gross
				square feet, but does not exceed 50,000 gross square feet, excluding the
				parking garage area.
Tier 2 covered buildings
also include
multifamily residential buildings
where floor areas are equal
				to or exceed 50,000 gross square feet, excluding the parking garage
				area.
Useful life
:
Useful
				life
is the expected remaining
service life
of
building
systems or equipment. Used interchangeably with
service life
.
Weather normalized
:
A method for
				modifying the measured
building
energy use in a specific
				weather year to energy use under normal weather conditions.
Weather normalized energy use intensity
				(WNEUI)
:
Measurement that normalizes a
building's site
				energy
use relative to its size based on the
buildings weather
				normalized site energy
use. A
building's energy use
				intensity
is calculated by dividing the total net
weather
				normalized
energy consumed in one year by the
gross floor
				area
of the
building
, excluding the parking garage.
Weather normalized energy use intensity
is reported as a value
				of 1,000 British thermal units per square foot per year.