buildings and hotels. >> when you say industry professional, i believe and what section are we looking at in the housing code? >> ok. that is in section 604 of the housing code. >> 604. the san francisco building code be the way. this book is the san francisco building cold. -- code. ok. structural maintenance section 604. >> the housing code is available online by going to sfgov.org and going to the municipal codes and clicking on the being code and going to the san francisco housing code query by section 604. and the actual section is in that notification restated as it is in the code. >> now, people have questions they can call the housing inspection services and ask them and what is the phone number? >> 415-558-6220. and if you have any questions on that, you can do that also as we're sending this out to the property owners, the district inspector's phone number right with that package and the organizational chart of the entire division is also online and every single phone number for every inspect, myself, is all on there. so you can call any of us and we'll be more than happy to help you with that. >> this ordinance requires inspection be done by a licensed general contractor an

protection work. 8 b., request adoption of certain supplements and errata to the 2010 port of san francisco building code. 8 c., request authorization to advertise a request for proposal soliciting professional engineering services to establish a building occupancy resumption program for critical port facilities. 8 d., request authorization to amend the professional services contract with an arm of the sciences associates for environmental review services for pier 27 james herman cruise terminal and northeast wharf plaza by increasing the amount of the contract from $851,000 to an amount not to exceed $2.7 million and expanding the scope of services to include in farming or reduce services and permit coordination for the 34th america's cup. it8 e., request approval to shore request for proposals soliciting public relations and media services related to the port's special events and other revenue generating and strategic media activities. 8 f., authorization to enter into a letter of agreement between the bay area urban area security initiative and the port of san francisco for the distribution of fiscal

. >> the building code in san francisco says that we can approve products that are not specifically required or meet the requirements of the building code, if can be shown to us that there's a rational basis for approval, that they're meeting the intent of the code. we can approve an alternate method or material and we do that a lot now, especially with new materials flooding the market. we have to look at things on a case by case, use by use basis, and we would consider this sort of thing. protective glazing, wired glass, we see traditionally all over. >> so we've got wired glass here. you know, it's a product that we used to sell a lot of. but almost a product whose time has come. i mean this is an obscure wire glass, with -- it's rated 45 minutes for fire. but the problem is there's no impact. so this is not -- at one time, you could put this in a fire door, only in a -- there was a time when they put this in shower doors. and so clearly that's not legal anymore, with good reason, besides the fact that all of the wires rusted. there's some pretty nasty-loo nasty-looking shower doors that

. >> in january of this year, the california building code requires almost all of san francisco that we get geologist and a geotechnical engineer. it was a state building code rather than just the local requirements. >> as you recall, this was called the edge hill ordinance. >> is this the same kind of condition? >> this is more of the rock, all on one side and on the other side -- >> this is a combination. >> a lot of sand hills were scrapes down and deposited to other places without being engineered or consolidated and people build on top of that. we have a whole change as the city surfaced. what is the deal with sand, is this a good place to build on? >> if you want to understand the properties and if you designed to mitigate any adverse effects of the settlement, this is the strongest. i live in the sunset, i have been doing this right on the other side of this hill. i see the same conditions exist here where we have the earthquakes and the sand shakes and it gets more dense. we see differential settlement of are on. >> they might have filled in a low land or a wet land and build

what we're doing with this right now is the san francisco housing code requires the city and county of san francisco to do inspections of participate buildings and hotels at least once every five years. so while we're going thus thru this process, we're inserting this particular affidavit and notification in the appointment request letters going out to the property owners so that we could have a field inspector actually explain this process. this is not meant to necessarily be always done at the same time. we're just introducing it this time to get the information out to the property owners so say that know that this particular requirement exists. why do we put this in the code? we put it in the code because we realize that the -- with the amount of buildings we have out there, their type of construction, the age of these buildings and the amount of inspectors we have, we can't really get at the issues with decks, failure, dry rot and all these issues just with the staff we have. so one of the things that we're wanting the proper owners to do, to regularly survey their buildings for this kind of ob

code say you are permitted to extend existing electrical systems. knob and tube systems which are common in san francisco in older buildings don't have to be replaced.ou don't have to upgrade the system because it's older wiring. it's safe and may be extended as necessary to serve new fixtures. that's in the historic building code and regular electrical code. you can often find the wonderful fixtures in salvage yards. >> you have comments? there are a couple of shops you can take this to them and they will rewire it with modern wiring. sometimes, because we have combination gas and electric fixtures they rewire the old gas fixtures as well. there are resources availables to getting them fixed up. >> this one needs more than rewiring but. [laughter]. >> you can get all of the bits and pieces for the fixtures these days on the internet and salva salvage yards. terrific place on sacramento street that has a tremendous collection of historic glass and chandeliers. >> it's over in laurel heights wood chuck antiques. there is victor's antique light nothing the bay view area. both of those are if you look under lighting in the yellow pages you will find wo

>> well the historic building in san francisco, it's to make sure the different strategies to achieve green credits actually meet all the codes, >> you may not get specific leed credit, however, you get other benefits, you get priority permitting under our building and planning processes. what other advantages? you get to use the historical building code. it does not talk about designation. there was a lot of talk how to incorporate historically features into sustainability programs. because as we were saying before, the biggest problem is, beverly said the codes are already there. okay question 2. was about the windows. you did not replace the windows. how does that work into your energy consumption. we did not retrofit. how we tried to combat that was on window shades. on the reverse side that faces towards the exterior of the building is a reflective surface that keeps the solar gain out of the space. leed does award you per replacing windows. because anyone sitting close to them is freezing most the time because it's leaking all of the hot air. that's another example if we really wanted to do something like that. we would

as far as background, the san francisco administrative code requires that 2% of all above- ground construction cost for new buildings is set aside for arts enrichment. historically, those resources have been through the arts commission. 2% has to be set aside for arts enrichment. that money then gets sent to the arts commission. they distribute it for us. in 2004, we were advised via the city attorney's office that the p.u.c., unlike other agencies, had full destructiodiscretion. that means we can partner and collaborate with the arts commissions, or we could commission them in house, if we wanted to. it's a different type of authority that the p.u.c. has. next slide. we wanted to give you examples of the types of projects that have been supported in partnership with the arts commission. we've had a productive working relationship with the arts commission. they bring to the table a lot of expertise around art that the p.u.c. does not have. here is an example. you may remember it. it was a large spider. it was recognized as the best public art piece the year it was put up. this next piece of work may also be familiar

san francisco has been honored as the greenest city in the united states. a study ranks san francisco number one in come posting and recycling, public transportation, low pollution levels, green building codes and energy efficiency. new york, seattle, denver and boston ranked just below the city by the bay. >>> the lawrence livermore lab donated a new computer center for private industry and universities to use. the interim high performance commuting invasion center will give business the same computer power that are used for computer problems like simulating nuclear weapons. >>> people in the bay pay the highest income percentages for food. boston residents pay the most. while atlantans pay just 4.4%. >>> an fda panel yesterday rejected avastin for a treatment. they say the drug has more risks than benefits. a spokesman for the centers of medicare and medicaid said the fda decision will not affect them. the fda is expected to make a decision next month. >>> pay by's brains may be more active than once thought. the baby's brain showed more activity after hearing coughing or sneezing than when they heard the sounds of toys or water. the babies also showed response to sad sounds in a part of

san francisco. that is all. thank you. >> is there any public comment on the president's announcements? >> item 3. update on vacant buildings/ blight issue. >> good morning, president, commissioners. john henson, acting director of code enforcement. i want to thank you for your opening remarks. i must insist we are only as good as the fine building inspection support staff we have. this was put on by questions from members at the last hearing. the questions related to the vacant amendment buildings. this is a new ordinance that was subject to a building code, as a result of the board of supervisors. the effective date was september 2009. code section 103.4. this ordinance requires annual registration, a registration fee to be paid [inaudible] before you you have a packet listing 427 active addresses. of those, 291 have paid and registered their buildings. the balance are in different stages of the code enforcement process. keep in mind, over the past two years or so, there were 300 other buildings that were evaluated. the owners responded and provided us with industry documents and information. they were declared as not needed to be on the active list. commissioner murphy: what is the annual fee for that? >> $765. th