63A-5b-602. Design criteria, standards, and procedures.
(1)
The director shall establish design criteria, standards, and procedures for the planning, design, and construction of a new facility and for improvements to an existing facility, including life-cycle costing, cost-effectiveness studies, and other methods and procedures that address:
Terms Used In Utah Code 63A-5b-602
Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
Division: means the Division of Facilities Construction and Management created in Section 63A-5b-301. See Utah Code 63A-5b-102
Facility: means any building, structure, or other improvement that is constructed:
(i)
on property that the state or any of the state's departments, commissions, institutions, or agencies owns; or
(ii)
by the state or any of the state's departments, commissions, institutions, or agencies on property that the state does not own. See Utah Code 63A-5b-601
(a)
the need for the facility;
(b)
the effectiveness of the facility’s design;
(c)
the efficiency of energy use; and
(d)
the usefulness of the facility over the facility’s lifetime.
(2)
Before proceeding with construction, the director and the officials charged with the administration of the affairs of the particular agency shall approve the location, design, plans, and specifications.
(3)
The director shall prepare or have prepared by one or more private persons the designs, plans, and specifications for the projects administered by the division.
(4)
Before construction may begin, the director shall review the design of projects exempted from the division’s administration under Section 63A-5b-604 to determine if the design:
(a)
complies with any restrictions placed on the project by the director; and
(b)
is appropriate for the purpose and setting of the project.
