01 80 00 PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS

01 81 13 Sustainable Design Requirements

.01  Owner General Requirements and Design Intent

1. General: All building projects shall be designed and constructed using best practices in an integrated, holistic, balanced way to achieve high-performance facilities that are safe, productive, comfortable, pleasant, and conserve resources such as energy, water and raw materials; and minimize or prevent environmental degradation over their useful life.  
2. In order to achieve the general intent above, the following primary sustainable design and construction concepts shall be diligently and intelligently applied within the scope of each project. 
1. Optimize Site Potential
2. Enhance Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ)
3. Optimize Energy Efficiency
4. Optimize Water Use Efficiency
5. Minimize the Building’s Impact on the Atmosphere, Materials and Resources
6. Optimize Construction and Operations Plans to verify quality control and maintain ongoing high-performance operation.
3. Decision-making throughout the project shall be on the basis of achieving the lowest total cost of ownership for the life cycle of the project.

.02   Owner's High-Performance Requirements

1. General: Apply advanced, best practice design guidelines and standards, along with creative innovation and judgment to obtain the optimum performance for each project. The Building Code establishes only MINIMUM requirements.  Therefore it shall NOT to be used as the basis of defining OPTIMAL design and construction.
2. High-Performance Building Design Standards: Building projects must comply with one of the six (6) potential compliance paths stipulated by the International Energy Conservation Code, 2018:
   
   1. ASHRAE 90.1 Simplified Approach
   2. ASHRAE 90.1 Mandatory Provisions
   3. ASHRAE 90.1 Prescriptive Path
   4. ASHRAE 90.1 Energy Cost Budget Method
   5. IECC Prescriptive Approach
   6. IECC Performance Approach
3. The AE team is required to submit to Penn State the proposed compliance path for each project.  Additionally, each project shall comply with ASHRAE Standard 90.1 Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, , chapters 5, 6 and 7.  AND as superseded by more stringent requirements of ASHRAE Standard 189.1 Standard for the Design of High-Performance Green Buildings.
4. The Mandatory and Prescriptive requirements shall form the minimum basis of design.  Higher performance options wherever they can achieve lowest total cost of ownership are encouraged.
   
   1. This shall apply to:
   1. New buildings and their systems
   2. New additions and their systems
   3. Renewals of buildings and their systems
   4. New systems and equipment in renovations of existing buildings, including Level 1, 2 and 3 Alterations, as defined in the International Existing Building Code, Chapter 4.
5. Building Envelope Energy Component: The Architect / Lead Design Professional shall be held contractually responsible to optimize the thermal performance of the building envelope, evaluated as its own energy component. 
   1. If the Building Envelope Trade-Off Option is used, then the proposed building envelope performance factor shall be less than or equal to the budget envelope performance factor (as defined above).  
   2. In other words, it is prohibited to apply the trade-off concept in a way that would require additional HVAC and Electrical system capacity and/or any combination of the remaining energy components to be reduced to make up the difference of a proposed design that exceeds the allowable building envelope energy budget.  
1. The building envelope energy component budget shall be limited to that which would be achieved by using the Building Envelope requirements in the Mandatory Provisions and Prescriptive Option with values as superseded in ASHRAE 189.1. Refer to ASHRAE 90.1, Section 5 and ASHRAE 189.1, Section 7. 
2. Design Phase Compliance Documentation: Submit a Building Envelope Energy Compliance Report signed and sealed by the lead Design Professional certifying the Building Envelope Energy Component complies with the performance requirements of this standard. Submit for Owner Review prior to any official design approvals by the University, including final design approval by the Board of Trustees. Sample Building Envelope Compliance Forms are available in ASHRAE 90.1, User’s Manual, Compliance Forms, Section 5 – Envelope.

6. Water Conservation with Reclaimed Water:  The Architect / Lead Design Professional shall evaluate utilizing reclaimed water in order to achieve conservation of potable water resources. This evaluation shall be coordinated and reviewed with OPP Project Management and Engineering Services.

.03 LEED Certification Requirements

1. All new construction and/or substantial renovation projects at all PSU campus locations that exceed a Project Cost of $10,000,000 (i.e. BOT approval) are required to achieve one of the four levels of LEED certification.  Refer to the PSU LEED V4 Policy Document in the table below
   
2. All new construction and/or substantial renovation projects at all PSU campus locations that have a Project Cost ranging from $5,000,000 to less than $10,000,000 are highly encouraged to follow the PSU LEED V4 Policy Document in the table below. to use as a guide for sustainability but are not required to achieve LEED certification.

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.04  Owner's High-Performance Thermal Envelope Requirements

1. Summary: The following includes the University's supplemental requirements for high-performance thermal envelopes to optimize energy efficiency and indoor thermal comfort. They are intended to provide supplemental details to be used with, not take the place of, the high-performance building design standards referenced elsewhere in this Section.
1. Applies to thermal envelope of new construction and additions.
2. Renewed facilities and/or renovations of spaces that retain the exterior facade for historic or other reasons shall include evaluations to improve the thermal envelope to meet this intent as much as cost effectively practical to achieve the lowest long-term life cycle cost.
3. Any exceptions shall require approval by the OPP Project Manager, and exceptions by the OPP Project Manager shall require approval by one of the Associate Vice Presidents.
4. Other aspects of the building envelope such as materials selection for longevity and minimum maintenance, moisture, and pest protection, etc., are covered elsewhere.
2. Integrated Design Process:  The envelope design shall be coordinated in an iterative, integrated process to:
1. Meet the functional and aesthetic architectural objectives.
2. Help achieve comfortable and pleasant indoor environmental conditions with effective combined use of passive elements.
3. Be purposefully integrated with the HVAC and lighting systems to minimize dependence on non-renewable energy use and associated owning and operating costs for the life of the building.
4. Avoid envelope decisions made in isolation that can directly lead to permanent, poor comfort conditions that require additional HVAC systems and non-renewable energy sources to compensate.
3. Optimize Passive Effectiveness of Envelope: Design the envelope with the combination, arrangement, and thermal characteristics of envelope assemblies to achieve balance of aesthetics, vision glazing, effective daylighting, and passive energy conserving methods to provide a comfortable indoor environment to support the productivity and well-being of building occupants. The intent is to first passively minimize basic causes of local thermal discomfort. Then provide mechanical heating and cooling system only as minimally needed to make up for otherwise unavoidable perimeter heat gain/loss.  Use innovation, industry-recognized high-performance building prescriptive compliance methods, and the University's Design and Construction Standards, and additional guidelines below.
   1. In general, the area of vertical and skylight fenestration shall not exceed the percentages in the prescriptive option of ASHRAE Standard 189.1.
   1. Exclude from the ratio calculations the wall areas from unconditional and semi-heated, unoccupied spaces. Refer to Overall Total Fenestration Ratio Calculation.
   2. For renovations and additions, these percentages shall be based on the affected thermal wall or roof area within the boundary of the project scope, not on the total wall or roof area of an existing facility. In other words, the total existing wall area of a building with a lower existing window to wall ratio cannot be multiplied by the maximum window to wall ratio in order to add a large new high percentage of glazed areas. This applies similarly with skylights area and existing roofs.  Only the assembly areas within the construction limits of the project shall be considered.
   3. If there is an agreed upon compelling justification for the proposed vertical or skylight fenestration areas to exceed the prescriptive limits, then see Design Phase Compliance Documentation, Performance Rating Method elsewhere in this section for more details.
   2. Maintain a minimum of thirty (30) inches of an insulated assembly equal to the typical opaque wall assembly U-value from floor to window sill in all regularly occupied spaces such as offices, classrooms, laboratories, conference rooms, etc. This assembly may include curtain wall construction with various options of exterior opaque spandrel glass as part of pre-fabricated insulated composite panels or field installed insulation and wall finishes on interior surface.
   1. Note: this is primarily a thermal comfort issue to help avoid cooler vertical surfaces near occupant's lower extremities and to allow wall space for installation and proper operation of perimeter heating system and recognizing that glazing below 30" does not count for daylighting glazing areas.
   2. Lobby, entry and other transient, non-assigned spaces may be excluded.
   3. Limit the amount of vision/daylight vertical glazing of the interior wall surface area of perimeter walls of fully conditioned, regularly occupied spaces as required to meet ASHRAE 55 thermal comfort design criteria.
   1. Large glazed areas can significantly affect comfort of nearby occupants, even with high performance glazing. Discomfort results from poor Mean Radiant Temperature, asymmetric thermal radiation effects, and uncomfortable drafts due to convection and /or air infiltration at window frame, storefront or curtainwall assemblies. By careful, integrated design of the envelope, strategic size and location of glazing, and the HVAC system, it can be possible to reduce or eliminate the need for the installation and operation of dedicated perimeter radiant heating systems typically required to offset these effects.
   2. Lobby, entry and other transient, non assigned spaced may be excluded.
   1. At a minimum, comply with the prescriptive thermal performance requirements for the building envelope elements as defined in ASHRAE Standard 189.1 Chapter 7; Energy Efficiency.
   2. Options for U-value, Solar Heat Gain Coefficient and Visual Light Transmittance and spectrally selective tints or coatings that are better than those prescribed by ASHRAE 189.1 shall be considered where advantageous to obtain lowest total cost of ownership and included as Energy Conservation Measure alternate bids.
   3. Comply with requirements in 08 50 00 WINDOWS .
   4. If the project specifically intends to properly optimize effective passive solar heating, south facing windows glazing may have a higher SHGC if fully integrated with properly exterior shading devices.
   1. At a minimum, comply with prescriptive requirements in ASHRAE Standard 189.1 for Permanent Projections on east, south, and west fenestration.
   2. A combination of vertical and horizontal shading is more effective than just horizontal shading on the east and west facades of buildings because the sun is low in the sky early in the morning and late afternoon.
   3. Note: Internal shading devices shall be considered only for glare control, not as equivalent alternatives to external shading for HVAC load reduction.
   4. Custom patterns of opaque reflective finishes on the exterior surfaces of glazing (i.e. "fritting") shall not be considered a direct substitute for true shading projections.  It is not as effective, is difficult or nearly impossible to match exact color with respect to fading of adjacent glazing, and from experience has been extremely expensive to replace because of requiring customer orders and set-up charges.
   1. Horizontal blinds are more effective on predominately south facing exposures.
   2. Vertical blinds are more effective on predominately east and west facing exposures.
   1. Automatic Ventilation Mode: If and when outside air conditions are determined to be able to provide satisfactory indoor comfort, windows shall be automatically opened and the associated HVAC system shall be off when in natural ventilation mode.
   2. Manual:  If windows are manually operable and intended for natural ventilation, use sensors and control strategies to interlock HVAC systems to zone controls to be off when windows are open..
   1. ASHRAE 55-2010, Section 5.2, Method for Determining Acceptable Thermal Conditions in Occupied Spaces:
   1. Operative Temperature (average air temperature and Mean Radiant Temperature);
   2. Allowable Radiant Temperature Asymmetry;
   3. Allowable Vertical Air Temperature Difference;
   4. Allowable Range of Floor Temperature.
   2. Perform calculations and analysis for representative spaces and make iterations to thermal envelope first and then lastly to the HVAC systems as necessary to comply.
   3. Design Professional shall submit formal compliance documentation to indicate how the integrated thermal envelope and HVAC design complies with these requirements in accordance with ASHRAE 55, Chapter 6:  Compliance.
1. Thermal performance of envelope assemblies shall comply with ASHRAE Standard 189.1 Standard for the Design of High-Performance Green Buildings: In general, comply with the prescriptive thermal performance requirements for the building envelope elements as defined in Chapter 7; Energy Efficiency.
2. Define superior continuous air, moisture, and thermal barriers:  Include clearly defined construction details and specifications of performance criteria to achieve and maintain superior integrity and interfaces of air infiltration, moisture intrusion, and thermal barrier assemblies. Avoid thermal bridging.
3. Fenestration Limitations:  Comply with the following:
4. Specify high-performance glazing:  Optimally select glazing performance for each orientation to achieve the following:
5. Integrate permanent projections for effective exterior solar shading:  Combine use of insets, overhangs, horizontal or vertical fins, and light shelves applied with respect to building orientation and seasonal sun angles of site to minimize solar heat gain during cooling season, allow beneficial solar gain in heating season, and minimize discomfort caused by glare.
6. Design for effective, integrated daylighting:  Combine strategic fenestration placement, interior light shelves applied on predominately southern exposures and other glare control methods such as louvers, blinds, fins and shades achieve beneficial indirect daylight and to avoid high contrast levels that cause visual discomfort.  Integrate daylight harvesting with interior lighting design and controls.  Refer to 26 51 00 INTERIOR LIGHTING.
7. Integrate Natural Ventilation Option with HVAC Systems and controls:  If operable windows are included to allow for natural ventilation, then coordinate HVAC system zoning and controls to automatically turn off associated HVAC equipment when windows are opened either automatically or manually.
8. Comply with ASHRAE 55 Thermal Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy: The thermal envelope shall be optimized to passively assist in achieving the following comfort criteria.
4. Envelope Energy Component Compliance Documentation: Refer to basic requirements in Part .02, Paragraph C.  Building Envelope Energy Component, above.
   1. General project information including project name and location, contact information of Design Professional, and climate zone of reference design standard/code.
   2. Mandatory Provisions checklist.
   3. Opaque Surfaces Performance Summary:  For each space conditioning category, summarize each opaque surface assembly including the thermal performance of proposed and prescriptive budget criteria values (max U/min R, values, high reflective/emittance factors, and surface areas).  Provide line items breakdowns for each building elevation.
   4. Fenestration Performance Summary:  For each space conditioning category, summarize windows and skylights including the thermal performance of proposed and prescriptive budget criteria values (max U/min R, values, SHGF, infiltration rates, external shading projection factors, and surface areas). Provide summaries for each building elevation.
   5. \Window to Wall Ratios Summary: Include Gross Wall Area and Window Area and Window to Wall Ratio, per elevation and total.
   6. Skylight to Roof Ration Summary: Include Gross Roof Area, Skylight Area and Ratio.
   7. Overall Floor Areas: Include area summaries of each space conditioning category:  Non-Residential Conditioned space, Residential Conditioned Space, Semi-heated space, and the total of all of the above.
   1. The analysis shall include preliminary, simplified heating and cooling energy calculations of the Building Envelope Energy Component to show quantified energy reduction between proposed Design and prescriptive budget envelope model.
   2. As stated earlier, any trade-off must be considered within the building envelope energy component itself.
1. Prescriptive Method:  The Building Envelope Energy Compliance Report shall include the following, in tabular form:.
2. Performance Rating Method: If using this option, perform a quantitative analysis as early as possible in the design process to develop the envelope as a distinct component that meets the requirements defined in this Section. Submit the analysis to document energy reduction achieved as part of the Building Envelope Compliance Report prior to any official design approvals.
3. LEED Requirements: On projects that require a whole building Energy Simulation Model, submit the final certified Compliance Report of Optimizing Energy Performance, signed and sealed by the Design Professional.  Report shall include summaries of comparisons of the Design Building of each of the ASHRAE 90.1 Energy Components and the total to the budget (baseline) model.
5. Quality Assurance: Project Specification shall include the following quality assurance requirements:.
   1. Mockups (for new construction): Before beginning installation of thermal, air, and moisture barriers, contractor shall build mockups of exterior wall assembly shown on Drawings, of size no less than 150 sq. ft., incorporating backup wall construction, external cladding, window, door frame and sill, insulation, and flashing to demonstrate surface preparation, crack and joint treatment, and sealing of gaps, terminations, and penetrations of thermal, air and moisture barrier membranes.  Include junction with roofing membrane, building corner condition, and foundation wall intersection.  Coordinate construction of mockup to permit inspection by Owner's testing agency of components before external insulation and cladding is installed.
   2. Inspections: Materials and installation are subject to inspection for compliance with requirements.
   3. Tests: Testing to be performed will be determined by Owner's testing agency as follows:
   1. Qualitative Testing:  Air barrier assemblies shall be tested for evidence of air leakage according to current ASTM E1186 Standard Practices for Air Leakage Site Detection in Building Envelopes and Air Barrier Systems.
   2. Infared thermal imaging shall be performed on the completed building envelop during the first heating and cooling season and reports submitted by Owner's Commissioning/Testing Agency.  Areas showing "hot/cold spots" of unacceptable thermal losses shall be investigated and repaired.
1. Contractor shall coordinate and schedule all test and inspection requirements with Owner's Commissioning Agent and/or testing agency.
2. Field Quality Control:
3. Remediation: Deficient air, moisture, and thermal barrier components shall be investigated, removed and replaced and retested for compliance until satisfactory at no additional cost to the University.
6. Building Enclosure Commissioning (BECx): When Building Enclosure (Envelope) Commissioning is included in the project scope, a qualified independent Commissioning Agency with specialized building envelope expertise shall be engaged to perform building enclosure (envelope) commissioning and associated inspections, tests, measurements and verification to ensure all performance requirements are met.
   1. ASHRAE Guideline 0, The Commissioning Process.
   2. National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) Guideline 3, Building Enclosure Commissioning Process.
   1. AIA Best Practices: Building Enclosure Commissioning:  An Introduction.
   2. U.S. Green Building Council: Building Envelope Commissioning.
   3. Whole Building Design Guide: Building Commissioning.
1. Industry Guidelines: Comply with the current version of the following::
2. BECx Qualifications: Building Enclosure Commissioning specialist shall provide documentation of qualifications required by NIBS Guideline 3.
3. Additional resources:

.05  Owner's Additional Energy Conservation Options - Alternate Bid Requirements

1. Alternate Bids for Additional Energy Conservation Options: Competitively bid projects with a scope of work that have energy related components shall include Energy Conservation Options that  are determined to be economically viable as defined below.   
   1. Building Envelope
   1. An increased level of insulation for walls, roofs, floors, or ceilings
   2. Limit vertical fenestration area to not exceed 0.75 of the prescriptive requirement in ASHRAE 189.1.
   3. Extra-High Performance Insulated Glass (higher R value, reflective coating, etc.).  Refer to Section  08 50 00 WINDOWS (EXTERIOR INSULATING GLAZING UNITS).
   4. High-Performance Solar Control Film Option for Existing Facilities.  Refer to Section 08 50 00 WINDOWS (EXTERIOR INSULATING GLAZING UNITS).
   2. Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning
   1. Alternate selection of mechanical equipment with a higher efficiency (motor, drive, chiller, fan, pump, valve, etc.)
   2. Additional or supplemental BAS technology (programming or equipment)
   3. Lighting
   1. Alternate selection of lighting (newer technology, LED, light sensing ballast, daylight harvesting)
   4. Additional energy conservation measures that reduce energy, or operations and maintenance will also be considered such as alternative/renewable energy technologies, process changes, and sustainable practices.
   1. All additional costs associated with each option.
   2. An energy comparison between the base design and the alternate option for a 12 month period.
   3. A Life Cycle Cost analysis that indicates simple payback in years and the Net Present Value at 5 years (for Energy Conservation Measure funded options), 10 years (for Energy Saving Program funded options), and 15 years (for other marginal cases) based on the current rates and projections.
   4. Note:  In some cases, such as when evaluating options associated with the building thermal envelope with longer periods of useful life, the LCCA period shall be extended and performed to show which option has the lowest total cost of ownership with respect to the service life of the asset/component. 
1. Base Bid documents: shall be submitted by the lead Design Professional with sealed certification that the package complies with .02 Owner's High-Performance Requirements (above). The Additional Energy Conservation options shall not be used as a basis for “Trade-Off” options with the building envelope or other equipment or systems that fall below the requirements in the referenced high- performance standards.
2. Alternate Bids: Design professionals shall develop additional Energy Conservation Options that can be reasonably expected to be capable of financially supporting themselves for each energy component category that are relevant to the project scope. Examples include but are not necessarily limited to the following:
3. The following items shall be prepared by Party in responsible charge of the project and reviewed by OPP Engineering Services:
4. If more than one alternate is determined to be feasible, a second energy comparison between the base design and all selected options shall be prepared at the owners request prior to award.