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San francisco is home to some of the most Innovative Companies of the 21st century. This pioneering and forward looking spirit is alive in San Francisco government as well. The new headquarters of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission at a5 25 golden gate avenue is more than just a 13story building and office ablation. Instead, city leaders, departments and project managers join forces with local architectural firms ked to build one of the greatest Office Buildings in america. Thats more...

We cant walk away from this project. We have an opportunity to really take a lot of our values and principles, particularly raising the bar as we did as a city on our Green Building standards, mandating the most aggressive Green Building standards for private construction anywhere in the United States. And showcasing them in this new building. The city for the sfpuc, it was critical that the Building Stay as a lead building. The easiest thing to do to cut out millions of dollars, lets just go fr...

If the puc owned that building and we could make that the icon i can sustainable building puc represents, wouldnt be a dramatic idea . So, one of the major decisions we made was we wanted to make a statement with this building. We wanted this building to be a lead Platinum Building which is very few buildings in San Francisco that achieved this mark. Leadership and Energy Environmental design, it takes a look at the way we think about the places where we live and work. I like to think of it as d...

This land in 1999, it was home to a state Office Building. This was an old eightstory Brown Building the state owned and the workers comp people were in that building. It was an old dee correctvth it building for decades. When i was a member of the board of supervisors, all of us wondered why we hadnt done anything there and the mayor thought the same. If an earthquake happened, the building was uninhabitable. It sat there vacant for quite a while. The city decided to buy the building in 1999 fo...

When San Francisco first bought this land in 1999, it was home to a state Office Building. This was an old eightstory Brown Building the state owned and the workers comp people were in that building. It was an old dee correctvth it building for decades. When i was a member of the board of supervisors, all of us wondered why we hadnt done anything there and the mayor thought the same. If an earthquake happened, the building was uninhabitable. It sat there vacant for quite a while. The city decide...

San francisco is home to some of the most Innovative Companies of the 21st century. This pioneering and forward looking spirit is alive in San Francisco government as well. The new headquarters of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission at a5 25 golden gate avenue is more than just a 13story building and office ablation. Instead, city leaders, departments and project managers join forces with local architectural firms ked to build one of the greatest Office Buildings in america. Thats more...

Potentially planned for previous to that, which was a steel frame structure that used hydraulic dampers to control seismic motion. So, i met with my team. We worked hard. We came up with a great idea. Lets take out the heavy steel structure, lets put in an innovative vertical post tension concrete structure, great idea. We did that. A lot of other things. And we came up with a price of 140 million. So, we achieved that goal. And, so, when we first started looking at the building, it was going to...

The new headquarters of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission at a5 25 golden gate avenue is more than just a 13story building and office ablation. Instead, city leaders, departments and project managers join forces with local architectural firms ked to build one of the greatest Office Buildings in america. Thats more than a building. Thats a living system. When San Francisco first bought this land in 1999, it was home to a state Office Building. This was an old eightstory Brown Building...

Departments and project managers join forces with local architectural firms ked to build one of the greatest Office Buildings in america. Thats more than a building. Thats a living system. When San Francisco first bought this land in 1999, it was home to a state Office Building. This was an old eightstory Brown Building the state owned and the workers comp people were in that building. It was an old dee correctvth it building for decades. When i was a member of the board of supervisors, all of u...

To build an icon i can building that will house a lot of city departments. The San Francisco Public Utilities commission has an important job. We provide clean, pristine public Drinking Water to 2. 6 Million People in the San Francisco bay area from the hetch hetchy Regional Water system. With also generate Clean Renewable Energy for City Services like public buses, hospitals, schools, and much more. And finally, we collect and treat all the citys wastewater and stormwater making it safe enough ...