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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 decided to buy the building in 1999 for 2. We worked and looked at ways that we can utilize the building f...

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 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 ...

Minimize the drama of actually building the project and this is what this particular agreement d a lot of things are in this particular agreement and i think its a real accomplishment, something that will provide us a practical and effective means of addressing local hire andet going san franciscans to work so thank you. [applause] so our final speaker is really the foremost Community Lead in the local hire movement and that is environment commissioner josh arsay. [applause] thank you. Thank you mayor lee. Thank you warriors. Thank you web core hunt and those that will build us and jesse hunt ...

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 for 2. We worked and looked at ways that we can utilize the building for an Office Building. To build an icon i can building that will house a lot of city departments. The San Francisco Public Utilities commission has a...

Lead gold. But that wasnt the objective. This needed to be the best example of Energy Conservation of any Office Building in the United States. We became involved in the San Francisco Public Utilities headquarter project during the time when the project was at a stand still for a number of reasons, largely due to budget issues. And at the time we were asked to consider an alternative design using concrete rather than the scheme that was 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 w...