Becomes something entirely different. Wind turbines in an urban environment is a relatively new concept. There are a few buildings in other major cities where they have installed Wind Turbines on the roof. And Wind Turbines in buildings are effective. The discussion was do we do that or not . And the answer was, of course. If theyre not perfect yet, theyre building a building that will last 100 years. In 100 years someone is going to perfect wind efficient turbines. If these arent right, well replace them. We have time to do that. The building thats two Renewable Energy generations. Wind turbines located on the north facade. Two Different Levels of photo volume takes. We have over 600 solar panels and three platforms on the building, and four integrated Wind Turbines. The Wind Turbines and the solar panels produce 7 of the buildings energy. And were reducing the use of energy here by 32 in the office building. The entire building is controlled by a complex Computer System which monitor
Wood up above. Its all brick because its deep set windows. Here we go with part of the roof and the parapet. This is over on inaudible street. See where the bricks fell, right on top of a car. There were 5 people in that car. Buildings like this, you are nearest, wheres the best place to be, do you think . You want to be far away from it . You want to be far away from it initially . Yeah. But what if you are not far away from it when it starts happening, are you going to try to outrun it . No. You want to get up close to that building because the bricks have a tendency to fall out, fall straight down. If youll notice right up next to the building theres not that many bricks. Tilt up buildings, premade buildings. They are made on the site. Generally speaking, you see warehouses, large expanse buildings are made out of them, usually one story buildings. In other words theres not a story on top. They didnt make their corner connections very well. When they didnt make their corner connecti
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 to discharge into the San Francisco bay and pacific ocean. In 2006 the puc was planning a Record Number of projects. The Public Utilities commission is a very infrastructurerich organization. Were out there rebuilding the water system. Weve budget working on Power Generation in the country. Weve been doing sewer for the city. Were looking at a brandnew rebuild of all watt systems in San Francisco and we havent had a home thats been other than mental. They staff over 900 people. The puc is in two office locations. You know, this is such a great place for a building. If the puc owned that building and we could make that the icon i can sustainable building puc represents, wouldnt be a dramatic
Under 34 percent. Now you are always going to have your Safety Equipment with you, correct . When you get together as you assemble, make sure you have, at least one person has something here that you guys can all use. Different types of buildings are in the city. We have wood, unreinforced masonry, you have high rise and you have tilt ups. Whats the safest construction type to be . Four stories or less. Wood . Yeah, wood framed building. Why is wood the safest building to be in, 4 stories or less . It flexes, yeah, its flexible. Whats the danger here . Chimney, yeah, fireplace. Be aware of the fact that just because its a Wood Building and the event caused some sort of compromise of the structure of the building and the building is Still Standing doesnt necessarily mean theres not a danger there. So what could you as nerts do to make that situation better or at least keep it the same so no one else gets hurt . Keep it off, yeah. Keep people away. Perfect. Take out some of that yellow t
This class is managing a disaster. What happens and how do we fit in . Emergency operation plan, everything is going to go through the mayor. You have the office of emergency services, everything is supposed to come together over on turk street. Thats where the ham radio base station is going to be. Thats where they will have a set up. They will be communicating with all the different Emergency Response districts. Thats where we fit in. Were going to fit into this Emergency Response staging thing into nert staging districts. Each response district has its own little inaudible then the nert groups are broken up into the corresponding Emergency Response districts and they are located at our Fire Department, battalion chief stations, basically theres a battalion chief there, he will be like the little commander of that district as far as were concerned and the Fire Departments response. Going to have the ham Radio Communication people there, they are going to set up a little base station