As used in this section, the following definitions apply unless the context requires otherwise:

(1)        “ASHRAE” means the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc.

(2)        “Commission” means to document and to verify throughout the construction process whether the performance of a building, a component of a building, a system of a building, or a component of a building system meets specified objectives, criteria, and agency project requirements.

(3)        “Department” means the Department of Administration.

(4)        “Institutions of higher education” means the constituent institutions of The University of North Carolina, the regional institutions as defined in N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115D-2, and the community colleges as defined in N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115D-2

(5)        “Major facility construction project” means a project to construct a building larger than 20,000 gross square feet of occupied or conditioned space, as defined in the North Carolina State Building Code adopted under Article 9 of Chapter 143 of the N.C. Gen. Stat.. “Major facility construction project” does not include a project to construct a transmitter building or a pumping station.

(6)        “Major facility renovation project” means a project to renovate a building when the cost of the project is greater than fifty percent (50%) of the insurance value of the building prior to the renovation and the renovated portion of the building is larger than 20,000 gross square feet of occupied or conditioned space, as defined in the North Carolina State Building Code. “Major facility renovation project” does not include a project to renovate a transmitter building or a pumping station. “Major facility renovation project” does not include a project to renovate a building having historic, architectural, or cultural significance under Part 4 of Article 2 of Chapter 143B of the N.C. Gen. Stat..

(7)        “Public agency” means every State office, officer, board, department, and commission and institutions of higher education.

(8)        “Weather-based irrigation controller” means an irrigation control device that utilizes local weather and landscape conditions to tailor irrigation system schedules to irrigation needs specific to site conditions. ?(2008-203, s. 1; 2011-394, s. 8(a).)