Public Safety Building in San Francisco (50/58)

1245 3rd St, San Francisco, CA 94158, United States

Welcome Fuad Sweiss Deputy Director Dept of Public Works MEETING AGENDA Fuad Sweiss, Deputy Director, Dept. of Public Works Introduction of Project Charles Higueras, Project Manager, Dept. of Public Works Steve Slosek Project Architect Steve Slosek, Project Architect, HOK/Cavagnero HOK/Cavagnero Main Presentation on Upcoming Work, Dates for Bidding Bret Firebaugh, Project Sponsor, Charles Pankow Builders Human Rights Commission and Small Business Participation Selormey, Dzikunu, Contract Compliance Officer, HRC Office of Economic & Workforce Develo pment/Cit yBuild Re quirements Ken Nim, Workforce Compliance Officer, OEWD/CityBuild Prevailing Wage Requirements Ardis Graham, p, Contract Com pliance Officer, OLSE

The San Francisco Arts Commission commissioned two public art installations for the campus: Shimon Attie’s memorial to fallen San Francisco Police Officers, Spiral of Gratitude,combines the elements of glass, sky and light. Together with the written word to create an immersive memorial in the building’s lobby. PaulKos’sFirstResponder Plazaincorporatesthreeuniqueicons,a conifer, a bell and a star, to form an inviting, meaningful space where the public can sit and enjoy the outdoors. The facility isdesigned to meet a green building certification rating of LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold.The energy-savingelementsincludesolarpower,reuseofgreywater, rainwater collection for irrigation,active chilled beams to heat and cool the building and lighting controls that automatically adjust to natural light in a room. Crews drove morethan 200 piles into bedrock that is located 200 to 250 feet below ground to stabilize the building. The water table at the site ranges between 4 and 10feet below grade. Funding and jobs The $243 million project was funded by the 2010 Earthquake Safety and Emergency Response (ESER) bond, which voters approved with 79 percent support. ESER 2010 began efforts to seismically reinforce the City’s firehouses and emergency firefighting water system and to construct the new Public Safety Building. In June 2014, San Francisco voters passed a new ESER bond to continue the important work. With an added focus on district police stations and the relocation of the motorcycle police. Crime lab and medical examiner from the Hall of Justice to new. Seismically secure facilities. The projectcreated 750jobs inSan Francisco,and involved 158 subcontractors, with 82 LBE(Local Business Enterprise) businesses participating.San Francisco residentsworked 187,000hoursonsiteto build the project. ThePublicSafetyBuildingispartofSanFrancisco’s10-YearCapital Plan,and represents the City’s commitment to building a stronger future. The plan provides a financing strategy for the City to deliver infrastructure investments without raising property tax rates or overburdening the General Fund. The public art component was funded through the City’s percent-for· art ordinance,which isadministered by theSan FranciscoArts Commission and requires that 2 percent ofa project’s gross estimated construction costs be set aside for public art.

San Francisco’s new state-of-the-art Public Safety Building campus will house San Francisco Police Department headquarters, Southern District Police Station, Fire Station No.4, the Arson Task Force and a community meeting room. Construction began inOctober 2011 and was substantially completed in March 2015.Southern Police Station and Fire Station No.4 will become fully operational on March 28, 2015. The Police Department headquarters, with its morethan 250 uniformed and civilian employees, will be upand running on April 13,2015. Builtto modernseismic standards, thePublicSafety Building was designed to operate for up to 96 hours off the grid.Thesecure facility providesthe necessary structural and operational resiliency to enable Police Department leadership to promptly and efficiently coordinate public safety response after anearthquake or othermajordisaster.

TheSouthern District PoliceStation will servetheSouth of Market, China Basin, Embarcadero and Mission Bay neighborhoods. Both police headquarters and the police station are being relocated from the seismically deficient Hall of Justice at 850 Bryant St., where they have been housed since the 1950s. The new fire station will serve the growing Mission Bay neighborhood, which when fully built out will include 6,000 housing units,4.4 million square feet of office/life science/biotechnology space,a hospital complex, researchcampus and500,000squarefeet ofretailspace andother neighborhood-serving uses. The historic Fire Station No.30 was renovated to house the Arson Task Force and a community room for use by neighborhood residents. The brick fire station is eligible for listingonthe National Register of Historic Places. The Lead Architect for the project is H>OK, with Associate Architect MarkCavagneroAssociates. Interior architecture responsibilities were covered by San Francisco Public Works. The construction manager and general contractor wasPankowBuilders,with project andconstruction management byPublicWorks.