Board of Commissioners of Cook County - File #: 14-3584

• File #: 14-3584
• Version: 1
• Name: Cook County Building Energy Benchmarking Ordinance
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Approved
• File created: 6/3/2014
• In control: Environmental Control Committee (Inactive)
• On agenda: 6/18/2014
• Final action: 7/23/2014
• Title: PROPOSED ORDINANCE THE COOK COUNTY BUILDING ENERGY BENCHMARKING ORDINANCE BE IT ORDAINED, by the Cook County Board of Commissioners, that Part I, General Ordinances, Chapter 2, Administration, Article I, In General, Section 2-8 Cook County Building Energy Benchmarking, is hereby enacted as Follows: Section 2-8. Cook County Building Energy Benchmarking. (a) Definitions. The following terms used in this section, shall have the meanings set forth below: Benchmarking means to track and input a building's energy consumption data and other relevant building information for twelve consecutive months, as required by the benchmarking tool, to quantify the building's energy use. Benchmarking Tool means the website-based software, commonly known as "ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager," developed and maintained by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to track and assess the relative energy use of buildings nationwide. This term also applies to any successor system thereto, i...
• Sponsors: TONI PRECKWINKLE (President), JOHN P. DALEY, ELIZABETH "LIZ" DOODY GORMAN, EDWIN REYES, PETER N. SILVESTRI, ROBERT STEELE, JEFFREY R. TOBOLSKI
• Indexes: (Inactive) JOHN COOKE, Director, Office of Capital Planning and Policy

Date	Ver.	Action By	Motion	Result
7/23/2014	1	Board of Commissioners	approve
7/22/2014	1	Environmental Control Committee (Inactive)	recommend for approval	Pass
6/18/2014	1	Board of Commissioners	refer	Pass

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PROPOSED ORDINANCE

THE COOK COUNTY BUILDING ENERGY BENCHMARKING ORDINANCE

BE IT ORDAINED, by the Cook County Board of Commissioners, that Part I, General Ordinances, Chapter 2, Administration, Article I, In General, Section 2-8 Cook County Building Energy Benchmarking, is hereby enacted as Follows:
Section 2-8. Cook County Building Energy Benchmarking.
(a) Definitions. The following terms used in this section, shall have the meanings set forth below:
Benchmarking means to track and input a building's energy consumption data and other relevant building information for twelve consecutive months, as required by the benchmarking tool, to quantify the building's energy use.
Benchmarking Tool means the website-based software, commonly known as "ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager," developed and maintained by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to track and assess the relative energy use of buildings nationwide. This term also applies to any successor system thereto, including any change or addition made to such tool by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Building means any structure built for the support, shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels, or movable property of any kind, and which is permanently affixed to the land. A fence is not a building. For purposes of this section, a building is one that is owned and operated by or on behalf of Cook County.
Certificate of Occupancy means the certificate issued by the Zoning Administrator, Building Commissioner, or Cook County Department of Building and Zoning allowing building occupancy or use.
Chief Sustainability Officer means the Chief Sustainability Officer or if none has been designated, the Director of Environmental Control.
County Building means any Group 1 County building or Group 2 County building as defined by this section. The term "County building" does not include any building with more than 10 percent occupancy use classified as open air assembly u...