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20D6 Vl^shinoton Stale Nonresidential Energy Code Comnliance Form <br />Mechanical • General Requirements <br />1411.1 Go moral: Equipment an ell It a minimum performance sl the specdNd <br />rating conditions not less then the values shown In Table 14.1A through 14.1G, If e <br />nenoneily recognized drtitieatlon program exists for @ product covered in Tables <br />14-IA through 14-1G, and N Includes provisions for verification and chellengs of <br />equipment efficiency ratings, then the product Shell be listed In the cendication <br />pmorsm. <br />Galdtred and oil -fired forced tie furnaces with Input ratings a 225.000 Baum (55 <br />kW) and all unit hasten Small also have an Intermittent Ignition or interrupted device <br />IND). and have either mechanical draft (including power venting) or a Iles damper. A <br />vent damper Is an acceptable sNarnative to a flue damper for furnaces what* <br />combustion sit Is tire" tram the conditioned space. All furnaces with Input ratings; <br />225.000 Blum (55 Mi. Including electric hrmac@@, that ore not located within the <br />Conditioned space shall have jacket losses not exceeding 0.75116 of the input rating. <br />1411.2 Rating Conditions: Cooling equipment shall be rated at ARI IBot conditions <br />and procedures when eeedabie When no applicable procedures exist, dais Shell <br />be rumored by the equipment manufacturer. <br />1411.5 Combination Space end Sori Water Hosting: For combination space <br />and mom" water heelers with a principal function of providing space heel, the <br />Combined Annual Efficiency (CAE) may be calculated by using ASHRAE Standard <br />1244001. Storage *star heelers used In combination some@ host and water beat <br />applications shall have either an Energy FActor (EF) or a CAE of not less than the <br />following'. <br />EF <br />I CAE <br />e 50 pal storsg* <br />0.55 <br />0.71 <br />50 to 70 gat along@ <br />0.57 <br />0.71 <br />> 70 gal storage <br />1 0.55 <br />1 0.70 <br />1411.4 Packaged ElHiltio Hosting and Cooling Equipment.• Packaged electric <br />equipment providing both heeling and cooling with a total cooling capacity greeter <br />than 20. Blum shall be @ host pump. <br />Exception: Unstated equipment Shohats or cabinets used solely for <br />personal wireless service faclld4o. <br />14t2 Controls <br />1412.1 Temperature Conlrob: Each system Star be provided with at least one <br />temperature control davk*. Each zone shall be contromac by individual thermostatic <br />controls responding to temperature within the zone. Alm minimum, each floor al . <br />buildInO Small be considered as a separate ions. <br />1412.2 Dudbmd Controls: When used to control both comfort heeling and <br />cooling, son* thermostats: controls shell be capable of a deadband of at least 5 <br />dogmas F within which the supply of hosting and cooling snarly to the zone Is shut <br />of of reduced to a minimum <br />Exceptions: <br />1. Special occupancy, special usage. or Code requirements whom <br />deadband controls ore not appropriate <br />2. Buildings complying with Section 1141.4. 0In the proposed building <br />energy analysis, healing and cooling thermostat selpoinis are met to <br />the some temperature between 70 degrees F and 75 dogmas F <br />inclushe, and assumed to be Constant throughout the year. <br />0 Thermostate that require manual changeover between hosting and <br />cooling modes. <br />1412.2 Humidity Controls. If a system Is equipped with a means for adding <br />moisture, a humiaistel shall be provided <br />1412.4 Setback and Shut -Off: HVAC systems Shall be equipped win automatic <br />controls capable of accomplishing a reduction of energy us* through control setback <br />or equipment shutdown during Floods of non-use or slannam use of the spaces <br />served by the system. The automatic controls shell have a minimum seven-day <br />clock and be capable of being set for levees different day types par week. It must <br />retain programming and time for a power lose of 10 hours and include an accessible <br />Manuel override of up to 2 hours <br />Exceptions: <br />1. Systems Serving @real which require continuous operation at the <br />some temperature selpoinl, <br />2 Equipment with full load demands of 2 kW (5,525 Bluth) or less may <br />be controlled by readily accessible Manuel of -hour controls. <br />0. Systems controlled by an occupant sensor that Is capable of shulting <br />the system of when no Occupant is sensed for a period of up to 00 <br />minute, <br />4. Systems controlled solsly by a manually operated timer capable of <br />operating the system for no mom than two hours <br />1412.4.1 Dompers: Oulold* air Nukes, exhaust outlets end relief outlets Serving <br />conditioned spaces shall be equipped with dampers which close automatically when <br />the system Is of of upon pawl? failure. Slink shaft and elevator Shaft amuse relief <br />opening$ shall be equipped with normelly open (fails to open upon loss of power) <br />dampen. These dampen Shell remain closed unto activated by the fire $Is1M <br />System or other approved Smoke defection system <br />Exceptions. <br />1 Systems serving areas which require continuous operators, <br />2. Combustion sit Intake$. <br />0, Gravity Inonmolonzed) dampen an acceptable in buildings less <br />than 0 stories In height. <br />4. Gravity (nonmolorind) dampen are acceptable In exhaust and relief <br />outlets in the not story end levels below the first story of building$ <br />three or more stone$ in halght. <br />1412.4.2 Optimum Start Controls: Hosting end cooling systems with design supply <br />ventilation (DCV) IS required for Optical that an larger then 500 1112, have a design <br />occupancy for ventilation of greeter then 40 people for 1000 11112 of floor area, end are <br />Served by Systems with ono or mote of the following. <br />■. An air -side economizer, <br />b. Automatic modulating control of the outdoor air damper, or <br />e Adel ign outdoor ahlow greater than 2000 arm. <br />Exceptions <br />1 Systems with energy recovery complying with Section 1405. <br />2. Multipleaons Systems wdhout doecl-digital control of individual zones <br />communicating with a central control panel. <br />0. Systems with a design outdoor aimow, less than 1200 ohm. <br />4. Spaces where the supply aimow rats minus any makeup or outgoing <br />transfer air requirement Is less then 1200 dim. <br />1410 Alt Economizers <br />1415.1 Operation: Air sconomlsm shell be of automatically modulating outside and <br />return air dampen to provide No percent of the design Supply air at oulSlde 40 to <br />reduce or elanlnste the need for mechanical cooling. Water eciddimlzem shell be <br />capable of providing the total Concumnt cooling load Boned by the connoted <br />terminal equipment locking Solids economizer, at outside air temperatures of 45vF <br />dry-bufh140OF wet -bulb and below. For this calculation, oil factors Including solar and <br />internal load shell be the some as those used for peak load calculations. except for <br />the outside temperatures. <br />Exception: Water economizer@ using sir<oolsd heel rejection equipment <br />may use a 05vF dry-bulb outside Sir temperature for this calculation. This <br />exception Is limited to a maximum of 20 tans per building. <br />1412.2 Documentation: Water economizer plane SobMmed for Spproval Shall <br />Include the following it •ormaliow <br />1. Maximum outside SO condition@ for which acommmizer Is sized to provide <br />full cooling. <br />2. Design cooling load to be provided by economizer at this outside air <br />condition. <br />0. Heel rejection and terminal equipment performance dots Including model <br />number, Bow rate, capacity, entering and leaving temperature In full <br />economizer cooling mode. <br />1413.3 Integrated Operation: Air economizers Shall be capable of providing partial <br />cooling even when additbnat mechanical cooling Is required to meal In* remainder <br />of the cooling load. <br />Exceptions. <br />1, Individual, direct expansion unds that have a rated capacity Ian than <br />55,000 Btum and use nonulegrated economizer controls that <br />preclude Simultaneous operation of In* sconomzer and mechanical <br />cooling <br />2. Water-c000d water Mears with wal@nloe economizer <br />1410.4 Humidification: It an so economizer Is required on a cooling System for <br />which humidification equipment Is to be provided to maintain minimum Indoor <br />humidity levels, then the humidifier shall be of the adiabatic type (direct evepomilve <br />media or fog stomlzallon type). <br />Exceptions. <br />1 Health cm IsdlNlse when WAC 245.020-525 allows only al*am <br />Injection humidifiers in ductwork commitment of final Often. 1412D <br />Combust on Heating Equipment Controls. Combustion hosting <br />equipment with a capacity over 225,000 Bluth Shall have modulating <br />or staged combustion Control. <br />2. System@ won Wolof sconcmtsor <br />0. t001k outside Sir systems with no provisions for air recirculation to the <br />central supply fan. <br />4 Nonsdlebalic humidifiers cumulatively Serving no more than 10% of a <br />building a oh economizer capacity as measured in cfm. This ratan to <br />the system cfm Seeing rooms with stand slams or duct mounted <br />humidifiers <br />1414 Dueling Systems <br />1414.1 Selling: Duct work which Is designed to operate at pi'li above 1121nch <br />water cakhmn static pressure shall be ee•Iod In accoroanc4 with Standard RS-10 <br />Extent of meeting required is a fonO*S: <br />1 Static pressure: 1l2 Inch to 2 Inches, oBol tranSveree joints. <br />2 Static pressure. 2 Inches to 0 inches Sul all transverse joints and <br />longitudinal seems. <br />0 Sutic preuurs'. above 0 Inches, seal all transverse joints. longitudinal <br />seams and duct well penetrations. <br />Duct lope and other pressure sensitive tape shall not be used to the primary <br />uslanl whin duct& are designed to operate at static pressures of 1 inch W.C. of <br />greater. <br />1414.2 Insulation: Duct@ and plenums that are constructed and function as port of <br />the building envelop*, by separating mtenor space from artenor space, shall most all <br />applicable requkaments of Chapter 10 Then requirements Include Insulation <br />Installation, moisture control, Sir leakage, and building envelope Insulation levels <br />Unhealed equipment rooms with combustion air louvers must be isolated from the <br />conditioned space by insulating inlonor surfaces to a minimum of R41 and any <br />exterior envelope Surfaces per Chapter 10. Outside a ducts serving individual <br />total be insulated <br />supply sic units with less than 2,500 cfm of Supply air capacity shall <br />to a minimum of Rd end am not consissred building envelops. Other outside Sir <br />duct runs are considered building envelops until they, <br />7J/ <br />1. connect to the hosting or cooling equipment, or <br />2. ers isolated from the exterior with an automatic Shut -of damper complying <br />