San Francisco’s Green Building Nightmare (Eco-totalitarianism run amok)

BeyondChron ^ | Mar. 03‚ 2008 | Randy Shaw

[fightinJAG]

No. While every office building has some of the problems you describe in your building, not every building has the problems described in this article.

This is a massive lawsuit waiting to happen.

[Bernard Marx]

Just stating facts here, no wishful thinking:

The San Andreas Fault at Crystal Springs Reservoir (built right on the fault just south of San Francisco) demonstrates what is known as a "seismic gap." The two sides haven't slid in different directions since the quake of 1906 despite several major temblors since then.

Around the time of the 1906 quake Japanese seismologist Akitsune Imamura began a study of Japanese earthquake records and discovered that Tokyo was built on such a seismic gap. Starting in 1912 he began warning that a devastating Tokyo quake was imminent. No one paid attention. In 1923 the gap moved, killing 140,000 people.

Fewer than a million people lived in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1906. Now the region traversed by the San Andreas in that area is populated by many millions. I wonder what sorts of "green" seismic gap safeguards the new Federal Building has?

[count-your-change]

I went to the link and all I saw was some hideous structure blocking the view, where is the building?
Oh no! You mean that's the building? Uuuugggaaaahhh...a nightmare on ugly street! Being inside must be worse....I can't look anymore, it's just toooo sad. (sniff)

[ricks_place]

Thomas Mayne Eyesore!

[Gaffer]

This is exactly the kind of building that you'll see in Taipei, China, Malaysia, etc.... the kicker is that they are being built, and the grass skirt looking facades are bamboo outer skins covering bamboo scaffolding...

If I worked there I believe I would file a disability lawsuit claiming respiratory distress....

[NVDave]

So what this is all about: Federal bureaucrats are suffering the fruits of the policies they want to force down upon the rest of us.

I’m trying to see a problem here... but no matter how hard I concentrate, I can’t seem to get beyond the satisfaction of a federal bureaucrat suffering in their little cubicle.

All federal office buildings should be built as well.

[driftless2]

Concerning architects love of the design Frank Llloyd Wright has a building in Racine or Kenosha that was loved by the critics too. Despite the fact that it leaked like a sieve. Of course it’s much more important to work in a “green” building than whether it’s functional or not. (smirk)

[river rat]

See what the future has in store for YOU - if you allow the environmental radicals and Leftist elitists to gain ultimate control over your life.

[TimSkalaBim]

That’s the building? It looks like a desk drawer. Fitting for bureaucrats, but ugly for everyone else. A perfect example of government architecture. This building is destined to be torn down and rebuilt within 30 years. At taxpayers expense, of course, as always. Madness.

[dljordan]

Back when I went was a kid and teenager we were REALLY green. There was no air-conditioning in my grade school and high school except in the principle’s office. We didn’t get air-conditioning at home until I was ten years old and this was in the South. If these wimps can’t handle the weather in San Fran, God help them if they go somewhere it’s really hot.

[Nailbiter]

ping to very ugly building

[IncPen]

The architect's car:

[T Lady]

'Once the workers out of desperation start bringing in little cheap fans and heaters and (assuming there are plugs) plugging them in all over the place, the energy used by that place will be a hundred times more than if they just efficiently climate-controlled the entire building.'

Exactly.

...In their endless crusade to 'Save the Earth' (while screwing over fellow human beings) the Socialist Liberals wind up doing more harm than good.