Greg Braswell from the Hydraulic Engineering section of the San Francisco Public Works, Calvin Gee from the Sustainable Streets division of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, and Greg Riessen from Treduction will join Julie Christensen, the Executive Director of the Green Benefit District to review WSU Adaptive Water Urbanism Initiative’s design progress after the […]
With the help from the GBD, the initiative will host five community workshops in San Francisco from January 26 through January 29. The workshop will be focused on the impacts of climate change on the Dogpatch and Potrero Hill area, and how we can prepare for these changes. To sign up for the workshop(s), go […]
Location: 312 Carpenter Time: 3:10 to 4 p.m. on February 13, 2017 Bimayendra Shrestha from the San Francisco Public Works will give a training session on using EPA’s Storm Water Managment Model (SWWM) to perform water balance modeling for community-owned utility planning. We will learn how to use SWMM to size water urbanism prototypes to […]
Location: The Progressive Slovenian Hall Time: 9-11 a.m. on January 29 Rosey Jencks from the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission will give a talk and discussion session on ecodistrct-making principles using net-zero water reuse case studies from San Francisco. She will also discuss community-owned utilities as building blocks for transforming the Green Benefit District into […]
Location: The Progress Solvenian Hall Time: 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. on January 28, 2017 Nicholas Birth, Bumayendra Shrestha, and Julio Maravilla from the San Francisco Public Works will give a presentation on the synergistic flood resiliency projects they had undertaken. They will also demonstrate how to use flood risk analyses to size a polder park, […]
Time: 3:10 to 4 p.m. on January 23, 2017 Location: 312 Carpenter, Washington State University Forest City’s Development Director, Kelly Pretzer, will give a talk on Pier 70’s Sea Level Rise Adaptation Strategies. Kelly focuses on all phases of the entitlement process for Pier 70, including environmental review, design review and project approvals. She has […]
Join us for a discussion on San Francisco’s Water History with Joel Pomerantz, the Author of The Seep City Water Log Book. Time: 6 p.m. on January 27 (Fri.) Location: The Progressive Slovenian Hall
Time: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on January 27 Location: TBA Join us for a tour of the Green Benefit District and its adjacent areas. You will be accompanied by Julie Christensen and Kat Sawyer from the Green Benefit District, Greg Braswell from the San Francisco Department of Public Works, Professor Hope Hui Rising, and […]
Time: 3:10-4 p.m. on January 9, 2017 Location: 312 Carpenter, Washington State University Ryan Jackson from the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s (SFPUC) Urban Watershed Management Program will be speaking about green infrastructure opportunities for the Dogpatch and NW Potrero Hill Green Benefit District. The presentation will cover SFPUC’s approach to green infrastructure, including regulation, […]
By Seth Truscott Hope Hui Rising, assistant professor of Landscape Architecture with Washington State University’s School of Design + Construction, moderated and presented in a panel entitled “Water Urbanism: Water as a Driver for Urban Design and Landscape Architecture,” at the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Annual Conference, Oct. 21-24 in New Orleans. Her panelists included Dennis […]