MEP PE Stamp in Seattle, WA — WSEC Energy Code & Sealed MEP Review

My Seattle energy review treats WSEC compliance as engineering, not paperwork. I confirm the code edition and the compliance path — prescriptive or performance — then audit the inputs: envelope assemblies against the architectural set, mechanical equipment efficiencies against the schedules, lighting power against the lighting plans, service water heating against the plumbing schedules, and controls sequences against what the drawings show. For performance-path projects, I review the energy model's inputs for honesty — the model must describe the permitted building, not an optimized fiction. Every number in the compliance package has to trace to a drawing or schedule. SDCI reviewers perform exactly this audit; my pre-seal review exists so the city's audit finds a package that already passed one.

Mechanical review verifies heating loads at Seattle design conditions, ventilation and exhaust engineered for the occupancy, and cooling where the building needs it — with equipment efficiencies meeting WSEC minimums and selections documented. Heat-pump systems, common in Seattle's mild climate, get their low-temperature performance checked. Electrical review covers service, distribution, lighting power and controls per WSEC, and metering provisions. Plumbing covers the standard scope plus WSEC-driven water heating efficiency. The final coordination pass is energy-focused: I walk the three disciplines checking that the building they describe is the building the energy package claims — equipment matches, lighting matches, water heating matches. In Seattle, cross-discipline energy consistency is what the seal certifies as much as any single system's design.

I confirm these before the Washington PE seal goes on a Seattle MEP set. Energy leads the list because energy leads the review. • Washington PE license verified; responsible charge established • WSEC edition confirmed; compliance path (prescriptive or performance) stated • Energy compliance inputs audited against drawings and schedules discipline by discipline • Mechanical loads at Seattle design conditions; equipment efficiencies meet WSEC • Ventilation, exhaust, and make-up air designed for the occupancy • Lighting power, controls, and metering per WSEC verified against lighting plans • Service water heating efficiency per WSEC; equipment as scheduled • Seattle Services Portal submittal organized; energy package matches the building drawn