San Francisco Public Works

Phase 1 of the Better Market Street improvements project reached substantial completion on Feb. 27 – bringing shorter crossing distances for pedestrians, new street trees and more visible traffic signals to the downtown corridor. Other upgrades include new curb ramps and street paving, street base reconstruction, decorative pavers and rebuilt sidewalks. Public Works led the project from start to finish, providing project management, design, construction management, regulatory affairs and public affairs services. The Phase 1 upgrades run along Market Street between Fifth and Eighth streets. The Better Market Street project stretches from Steuart Street to Octavia Boulevard. Construction of the future phases is dependent on funding availability. With completion of all large-scale construction within the Phase 1 project area, we are now able to fully re-open Market Street to bicyclists. Public Works would like to thank cyclists, neighbors, business owners and visitors for their cooperation and patience during this project. A big thanks, too, to the Better Market Street Community Advisory Committee and our partner agencies that have been involved in Better Market Street, including the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, the San Francisco Planning Department, the SF Office of Economic & Workforce Development and the San Francisco County Transportation Authority.? We hope you enjoy this new and improved stretch of Market Street! ?? https://lnkd.in/gNPCzH2b #SFPublicWorks #BetterMarketStreet #LoveOurCity #Construction #Infrastructure #Transportation #Project #Work #ProjectManagement #Design #ConstructionManagement #Community #Partnership

Some more of our favorite photos from last weekend's Arbor Day festivities in District 5. ?????? #SFPublicWorks #LoveOurCity #Community #Volunteer #Event #SanFrancisco #Together #Environment #Trees

Working with scores of community volunteers, we planted more than 100 trees in the Tenderloin, Western Addition and other District 5 neighborhoods this past Saturday to celebrate Arbor Day. ?????? These new trees don’t just beautify our neighborhoods; they also are an essential component of the City’s ecosystem and provide environmental and social benefits – from fresher air to more cooling shade. We also hosted our yearly Arbor Day fair on the campus of the San Francisco Unified School District's Civic Center Secondary School. The fair featured planter box building and planting, music, bucket truck rides, a friendly herd of goats and much more. Mayor Daniel Lurie 丹尼爾·羅偉, Supervisor Bilal Mahmood and Supervisor Matt Dorsey joined community volunteers and helped plant new street trees to expand San Francisco's urban forest. A big thank you to everyone who helped make this wonderful event a huge success! #SFPublicWorks #LoveOurCity #Community #Volunteer #Event #SanFrancisco #Together #Environment #Trees

On Jan. 10, just after 11 o’clock in the morning, as deadly fires continued to rage across thousands of acres in Los Angeles, Public Works chief structural engineer Ray Lui was at his desk some 385 miles away in San Francisco’s South of Market when he got a text: "We are activated as a Type 1. Pls verify availability by 12:00 pm today." Seven hours later, Lui reported to the East Palo Alto headquarters of California Task Force 3 Urban Search and Rescue for an urgent deployment to Southern California.? The next day he was on the ground, preparing for the grim work ahead. Lui serves as Task Force 3’s senior structure specialist, working alongside a team of highly trained professionals from the public and private sectors made up of firefighters, engineers, hazmat specialists, canine handlers, logistics experts and others who join together quickly to respond to disasters. Officials set up the task force in the wake of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. There are seven similar rapid-response teams in California and 28 across the United States – part of a national network under the auspices of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. With multiple fires burning at once in the greater Los Angeles area, Task Force 3 was assigned to the Palisades Fire, a brutally destructive blaze that broke out the morning of Jan. 7. Fueled by hurricane-strength Santa Ana winds, the fast-moving inferno killed at least 12 people and destroyed or damaged nearly 8,000 homes, businesses and other structures. An apocalyptic scene awaited Task Force 3 when it arrived. The upscale coastal neighborhood on the west side of Los Angeles – known for expensive homes, lush landscaping and panoramic views – had turned into an ash-covered landscape, scarred by an out-of-control inferno, that some likened to the lunar surface or a bombed-out war zone. Deformed steel frames, singed stone retaining walls, incinerated vehicles, blackened tree trunks, charred utility poles, melted glass and dangling power lines hinted at what once was. "Unfortunately, we weren’t there for search and rescue,” Lui said. “We were there for search and recovery." Working in tandem with a hazardous materials specialist, Lui was tasked with assessing whether a structure or an area was safe enough to access to search for human remains. "My job as a structure specialist is essentially to be a canary," he said. If the structure or space was deemed safe, the recovery crews could proceed with their work. Learn more about Lui's deployment to Southern California and how he first became interested in using his professional skills to assist in search-and-rescue operations across the country: https://lnkd.in/gNPCzH2b #SFPublicWorks #Engineering #StructuralEngineering #Work #Dedication #PublicService #EmergencyResponse #Emergency

Our Arbor Day fair and tree planting event is just around the corner and preparations are in full swing at our street tree nursery! ?? Here Chief Nursery Specialist Chris Reed inspects a delivery of trees at our tree nursery. Volunteers will plant the trees along the streets of San Francisco in celebration of Arbor Day this Saturday. Also pictured: Urban forestry inspectors at the tree nursery labeling trees for Arbor Day. The labels will help to efficiently distribute trees based on the various planting locations and worksites. Come and join Public Works for an Arbor Day celebration this Saturday! Our goal is to plant 100 trees in one day and we need your help! Plus we're hosting our family-fun Arbor Day fair. ?? ?? Saturday, March 8 ? 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. ?? 650 McAllister St. ?? Arbor Day Fair sign-up: https://lnkd.in/gWbRKD-q #SFPublicWorks #LoveOurCity #Community #Volunteer #Event #SanFrancisco #Together #Environment #Trees

Last month, crews from our Public Works Community Programs team helped residents in Bernal Heights with a neighborhood beautification project at the Virginia Garden Walk – a network of footpaths, stairways, retaining walls and a sustainable garden. Public Works staff provided tools for the workday and educated volunteers about the different types of native plants. Our crews helped with green waste pick-up and our team provided environmental engineering students from San Francisco State University with information on City can designs, servicing and waste management processes that Public Works participates in. Public Works routinely works with neighborhoods and businesses to activate and improve underutilized rights of way, such as City-owned parcels of land, sidewalks, medians, traffic circles and unaccepted streets.?Our programs provide a process, equipment and assistance for local residents and merchants to adopt and steward City-owned land in the neighborhoods. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gHM-in-2 #SFPublicWorks #LoveOurCity #Community #Volunteer #SanFrancisco #Together #Environment

?? We're celebrating Arbor Day this Saturday! Come and join us ?? Our goal is to plant 100 trees in one day and we need your help! Volunteers will be assigned to 10-15 teams and plant street trees in District 5, which includes the Western Addition and the Tenderloin. This event is rain-or-shine. Trees help reduce stormwater runoff, clean the air and provide habitat for birds and butterflies. Plus, they bring lots of beauty and shade to our urban streetscape – among many other benefits! Fifty trees will be planted in the Tenderloin, which has one of the smallest tree canopies in San Francisco, and the other 50 trees will be planted throughout District 5. ?? Saturday, March 8 ? 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. PST ?? 650 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA 94102 ?? Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/geUrUghB #SFPublicWorks #LoveOurCity #Community #Volunteer #Event #SanFrancisco #Together #Environment #Trees

Shielded by milky, zipper-lined plastic curtains and guarded by boxed devices measuring the air pressure, a quiet – yet vitally important – transformation has been underway at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital’s Building 5, deep in the heart of the crucial health care hub. Under the direction and supervision of Public Works project and construction managers, architects and engineers, contractor crews have been adding seismic upgrades and making improvements to laboratories and health care spaces across multiple floors of the 1970s-era hospital building, located at 1001 Potrero Ave. Public Works is delivering the project on behalf of the San Francisco Department of Public Health. But unlike conventional construction sites, the work at Building 5 is taking place in carefully monitored, air-controlled bubbles so dust and hazards can’t leak out into the surrounding working health care setting used by doctors, nurses and patients. "This building is still jam-packed. There's a lot of patients that still come here every day," said Joe Chin, the Public Works engineer overseeing the massive makeover and managing the City's Public Health and Safety Bond Program. "It’s almost like the effort and preparation to do the work is even harder than doing the work itself." The projects are part of a bond-funded initiative – approved by voters in 2016 – to consolidate many of the outpatient specialty clinics into one place for patient convenience. Today, the various clinics can be found in different buildings on the sprawling campus or offsite. The revamped clinics will be able to serve more patients in a safer, more welcoming environment with expanded space for direct care and support services. Updated technology, fire-safety and electrical systems, new furnishings and other upgrades also are on tap. And, paramount to the work, crews are retrofitting the existing Building 5 structure to make sure it can better withstand a strong earthquake. Much like police stations and firehouses, hospital buildings and clinics are critically important facilities in the aftermath of a calamity. But delivering such an ambitious renovation in an active health care setting requires surgical precision and meticulous planning. And much of it starts with infection control, which means creating a barrier between the construction workspace and the rest of the hospital. No speck of dust can escape. "We’re not even talking about something hazardous, like asbestos or lead, we’re just talking about standard drywall dust and dust from general construction," Chin said. "None of that can migrate beyond our work barriers." Learn more about the work on the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center campus and how Public Works is making sure the job gets done right: https://lnkd.in/gNPCzH2b #SFPublicWorks #Engineering #StructuralEngineering #Construction #HealthCare #ProjectManagement #ConstructionManagement #Project #Work #Safety

?? Extra! Extra! Read all about it! The latest edition of "In the Works - A Digital Journal,” our monthly newsletter, is hot off the presses. ?? In this issue: ?? Construction in a health care hub takes surgical precision ?? Public Works engineer steps up when disaster strikes ?? Love Our City volunteer workday ??? Better Market Street project hits milestone ?? Public Works jumps into action for Lunar New Year Parade, NBA All-Star weekend ?? Read our newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gNPCzH2b #SFPublicWorks #Engineering #StructuralEngineering #Construction #HealthCare #ProjectManagement #ConstructionManagement #Renovation #Project #Work #Infrastructure #Safety #Dedication #PublicService #EmergencyResponse #Resilience #BayArea #KeepSFClean #LoveOurCity #Community #SanFrancisco #Volunteer #Together #Event #Newsletter

Come and join Public Works in celebrating Arbor Day next week ?? Our goal is to plant 100 trees in one day and we need your help! Volunteers will be assigned to 10-15 teams and plant street trees in District 5, which includes the Western Addition and the Tenderloin. This event is rain-or-shine. Trees help reduce stormwater runoff, clean the air and provide habitat for birds and butterflies. Plus, they bring lots of beauty and shade to our urban streetscape – among many other benefits! Fifty trees will be planted in the Tenderloin, which has one of the smallest tree canopies in San Francisco, and the other 50 trees will be planted throughout District 5. ?? Saturday, March 8 ? 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. PST ?? 650 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA 94102 ?? Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/geUrUghB #SFPublicWorks #LoveOurCity #Community #Volunteer #Event #SanFrancisco #Together #Environment #Trees