A.    "Building" means any structure used or intended for supporting or sheltering any use or occupancy as defined in the California Building Code.

    B.    "Compliance Official" means the person who is authorized and responsible for implementing this chapter for any given project. The director of the general services agency, or his/her designee, shall be the compliance official for all county projects, except traditional public works projects. The director of the public works agency, or his/her designee, shall be the compliance official for all traditional public works projects.

    C.    "Construction" means the building of any building or structure or any portion thereof.

    D.    "Construction and Demolition Debris" or "Debris" means used or discarded materials removed from premises during construction or renovation of a structure resulting from construction, renovation, remodeling, repair, or demolition operations on any building, or other structure and shall include, but not be limited to: demolition debris; new construction debris; debris from renovation projects, including tenant improvements and additions; debris from flood control and storm drain construction and; debris from road construction; debris from construction, renovation, or demolition of pump stations and bridges, abutments; earth; and debris from construction, renovation, or demolition of retaining walls and underground utilities. Construction and demolition debris does not include hazardous waste, contaminated earth or soil, and materials without any use or market value even after re-manufacturing.

    E.    "County Administrator" or "CAO" means the executive officer of the county administrator’ s office of Alameda County.

    F.    "County Project" or "Project" means any work of construction, renovation, or demolition conducted on county-owned property, which is managed by county personnel from design through construction, including traditional public works projects. "County Project" or "Project" shall also include any buildings constructed for the county’ s use under a build to suit program or project.

    G.    "Demolition" means the decimating, razing, ruining, tearing down or wrecking of any facility, structure, pavement or building, whether in whole or in part, whether interior or exterior.

    H.    "Divert" means to use material for any purpose other than disposal in a landfill.

    I.    "Diversion Requirement" means the percentage of the total construction and demolition debris generated by a project that is required to be diverted from landfill under this chapter.

    J.    "Estimated Cost of Construction" means the total projected cost of completing a proposed project.

    K.    "General Services Agency" or "GSA" means the general services agency of Alameda County.

    L.    "Green Building Practices" means a whole systems approach to the design, construction, and operation of buildings and structures that helps mitigate the environmental, economic, and social impacts of construction, demolition, and renovation. Green building practices such as those described in the LEED rating system, recognize the relationship between natural and built environments and seek to minimize the use of energy, water, and other natural resources and provide a healthy, productive environment.

    M.    "Initiated" means officially identified and fully funded to offset all the costs associated with the project as found on the county capital improvement plan.

    N.    "LEED ^TM Rating System^TM" means the most recent version of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED^TM) Commercial Green Building Rating System^TM, or other related LEED^TM rating system, approved by the U.S. green building council.

    O.    "Public Works Agency", or "PWA", means the public works agency of Alameda County.

    P.    "Recycling" means the process of collecting, sorting, cleansing, treating, and reconstituting materials that would otherwise become solid waste, and returning them to the economic mainstream in the form of raw material for new, reused, or reconstituted products which meet the quality standards necessary to be used in the marketplace.

    Q. "Renovation" means any change, addition, or modification to an existing building or structure, including, but not limited to, tenant improvements.

    R.    "Reuse" means further or repeated use of construction or demolition debris.

    S.    "Structure" means that which is built or constructed, an edifice or building of any kind or any piece of work artificially built or composed of parts joined together in some definite manner and permanently attached to the ground.

    T.    "Traditional Public Works Projects" means heavy construction projects, such as pump stations, flood control improvements, roads, bridges, as well as traffic lights, sidewalks, bike paths and associated infrastructure on county-owned and maintained property. (Ord. 2003-63 § 1 (part))