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PUC unveils green 525 Golden Gate headquarters design, outlines roughly $190 million plan and funding options
Summary
Deputy GM Tony Irons presented a redesigned, sustainability-focused headquarters for 525 Golden Gate that the San Francisco PUC says will cut water and energy use sharply and that it intends to fund through bonds, surplus land sales and grants; commissioners pressed staff to justify higher costs for a civic-center site and asked for more financial detail at the next meeting.
Deputy General Manager Tony Irons presented the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s plan for a new headquarters at 525 Golden Gate, describing an architect-modified design that emphasizes on-site solar and wind generation, water recycling and seismic resilience while navigating historic-civic-center design requirements.
Irons said the building has been reduced from 13 to 12 stories to reduce shadow impacts on nearby parks, that the design was refined in an open charrette with outside architects including John King, and that the project would include integrated photovoltaic panels and roof-level wind turbines. "This building...at 6.1 kilowatt hours, annual energy consumption is 60% better than Title 24 energy consumption requirements," Irons said, adding the design is intended to be among the most energy-efficient high‑rise buildings developed in an urban U.S. setting to date.
Irons described water-efficiency features he said would drive very low per-occupant use—presented as…
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