§ 75-26. Facility design prerequisites.

All city departments and offices and their contractors responsible for financing, planning, designing, developing, constructing and managing city funded projects shall include the following prerequisites when designing a facility (as consistent with the USGBC LEED ^TM Rating Standards):

(1)

Compliance with Atlanta Code of Ordinances, Article II, Section 74-35, Erosion and Sedimentation Control.

(2)

Fundamental building systems commissioning: Verify and ensure that fundamental building elements and systems are designed, installed, and calibrated to operate as projected.

(3)

Minimum energy performance: Establish minimum energy performance for buildings and respective systems of buildings. Energy and water efficiency of those buildings and respective systems is to be measured, managed, and optimized on an ongoing basis.

(4)

CFC Reduction in HVAC&R equipment: Reduce ozone depletion.

(5)

Recycling: Implement a comprehensive recycling program that reduces waste generated by building occupants.

(6)

Minimum indoor air quality: Establish minimum indoor air quality (IAQ) performance to prevent the development of indoor air quality problems in buildings.

(7)

Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) control: Prevent exposure of building occupants and systems to ETS.

(8)

Education: Educate appropriate city personnel responsible for operations and maintenance of those systems throughout the building's lifecycle.

(Ord. No. 2003-108, § 2(Exh. A), 12-9-03; Ord. No. 2017-42(17-O-1218), § 9, 7-26-17 )