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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...

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...

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 than a building. Thats a living system. When San Francisco first bought this land in 1999, it was h...

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 from lead platinum to lead gold. But that wasnt the objective. This needed to be the best example of E...

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 designed for human and environmental health. Lead addresses five categories that enhances environment...