South Carolina § 48-52-810 - Definitions.

§ 48-52-810. Definitions.

As used in this article:

(1) "Board" means the State Fiscal Accountability Authority's governing board.

(2) "Building project" means the design, construction, renovation, operation, and maintenance of any inhabited physical structure and its associated project building site.

(3) "Commercial interior fit-out" means interior design and installation by owners or tenants of new or existing office space, typically exclusive of structural components and core and shell elements.

(4) "GBI" means the Green Building Initiative.

(5) "Globes" means the level of a building's sustainability and energy efficiency performance as determined by GBI's Green Globes Rating System.

(6) "Green Globes Rating System" means the environmental building rating system established by the Green Building Initiative.

(7) "High-performance building" means a building designed to achieve integrated systems design and construction so as to significantly reduce or eliminate the negative impact of the built environment.

(8) "LEED" means the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Rating System.

(9) "LEED Silver standard" means the Silver standard as set forth by USGBC's LEED Green Building Rating System.

(10)(a) "Major facility project" means:

(i) a state-funded new construction building project in which the building to be constructed is larger than ten thousand gross square feet;

(ii) a state-funded renovation project in which the project involves more than fifty percent of the replacement value of the facility or a change in occupancy; or

(iii) a state-funded commercial interior tenant fit-out project that is larger than seven thousand five hundred square feet of leasable area.

(b) "Major facility project" does not mean:

(i) a building, regardless of size, that does not have conditioned space as defined by Standard 90.1 of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers;

(ii) a public kindergarten, elementary school, middle school, secondary school, junior high school, or high school, all as defined in Section 59-1-150;

(iii) a correctional facility constructed for the Department of Corrections, Office of Mental Health, or Department of Juvenile Justice;

(iv) a building project funded by the State Ports Authority, the Coordinating Council for Economic Development, or the State Infrastructure Bank; or

(v) a building project funded by the Department of Health and Environmental Control in which the primary purpose of the building project is for the storage of archived documents.

(11) "Renovation project" means a building project involving the modification or adaptive reuse of an existing facility.

(12) "Third-party commissioning agent" means a person accredited by the USGBC or GBI, with expertise in building system performance, who will analyze, evaluate, and confirm the proper function and performance of a high performance building, its systems, equipment, and indoor air quality, and who did not participate in the original certification of the major facility project or renovation project.

(13) "USGBC" means the United States Green Building Council.

HISTORY: 2007 Act No. 88, SECTION 1, eff June 20, 2007; 2014 Act No. 150 (H.3592), SECTION 3, eff July 1, 2015.

Code Commissioner's Note

At the direction of the Code Commissioner, certain references in the S.C. Code to the State Department of Mental Health, South Carolina Mental Health Commission, Department of Disabilities and Special Needs, Department of Disabilities and Special Needs Commission, Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services, and other related terms were changed to reflect the restructuring of these agencies into component offices under the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, pursuant to 2025 Act No. 3, SECTION 18.

Effect of Amendment

2014 Act No. 150, SECTION 3, in subsection (1), substituted "Fiscal Accountability Authority's governing board" for "Budget and Control Board".