STAND. COM. REP. 2349

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2383

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Energy and Environment and Science, Arts, and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 2383 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO QUALITY CONTROL IN STATE PROJECTS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require all state capital improvement projects with a total contract value above $2,500,000 to utilize dedicated value engineering technology and charrette services to improve project value and to encourage recycling.

Six private individuals who are active in the construction industry submitted testimony supporting the measure. The Superintendent of Education and State Comptroller submitted testimony opposing the measure. The Administrator of the State Procurement Office submitted comments on the measure.

Your Committees believe that use of dedicated value engineering technology and charrette services will result in tremendous economic benefit to the State. While acknowledging the representations of governmental officials claiming that those methodologies are currently being used voluntarily, your Committees believe mandating the use will ensure that the economic benefits to the State will be maximized.

Your Committees have amended the measure by adding the encouragement of sustainability and high performance building characteristics as additional goals for using dedicated value engineering technology and charrette services.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy and Environment and Science, Arts, and Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2383, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2383, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy and Environment and Science, Arts, and Technology,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair