The Plastics Pipe Institute named San Francisco’s Pier 15 Exploratorium as its Project of the Year in the Building/Construction division. The award-winning project showcases 200,000 ft. of Uponor North America’s Wirsbo hePEX PEX-a tubing for the unique radiant heating and cooling system that uses the San Francisco Bay as a heat sink/heat source.

The project, designed by EHDD Architecture of San Francisco and engineered by Integral Group of Oakland, renovated a century-old building on San Francisco’s Pier 15 into the largest net-zero energy and net-zero carbon museum in the United States. The 330,000-sq.-ft., LEED-Gold structure is projected to be 57% more efficient than the ASHRAE 90.1 energy standard requires, thanks in part to the Uponor radiant heating and cooling system.