San Francisco’s Pier 15 Exploratorium is expected to be the largest net-zero energy and net-zero carbon museum in the United States.
May 31, 2013
The Plastics Pipe Institute named San Francisco’s Pier 15 Exploratorium as its Project of the Year in the Building/Construction division. The 330,000-sq.-ft., LEED-Gold historic structure is projected to be 57% more efficient than the ASHRAE 90.1 energy standard requires.
California regulators have expanded the state’s California Solar Initiative Thermal Program in an effort to provide enhanced incentives for solar heating and cooling technologies