{"id":138445,"date":"2022-04-22T13:27:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T18:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/tef-design-creates-living-wall-for-san-francisco-substation"},"modified":"2022-04-22T13:27:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T18:27:01","slug":"tef-design-creates-living-wall-for-san-francisco-substation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/tef-design-creates-living-wall-for-san-francisco-substation","title":{"rendered":"TEF Design creates living wall for San Francisco substation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tef-design-creates-living-wall-for-san-francisco-substation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lush <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/green-walls\/\">green wall<\/a> and back-lit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/fibreglass\/\">fibreglass<\/a> panels are found on the exterior of an electrical substation extension that was designed by TEF Design to achieve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/net-zero\/\">net-zero<\/a> energy consumption.<\/p>\n<p>Owned by the utility company Pacific Gas and Electric, the Larkin Street Substation Expansion is located on a mid-block site in the city\u2019s Tenderloin neighbourhood. It adjoins a concrete structure built in 1962 to supply power to the northeastern part of San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>For the constrained site, local firm <a href=\"https:\/\/tefarch.com\/\">TEF Design<\/a> conceived a two-storey addition that totals 12,200 square feet (1,133 square metres). The extension rises 50 feet (15 metres) at its highest point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lush green wall and back-lit fibreglass panels are found on the exterior of an electrical substation extension that was designed by TEF Design to achieve net-zero energy consumption. Owned by the utility company Pacific Gas and Electric, the Larkin Street Substation Expansion is located on a mid-block site in the city\u2019s Tenderloin neighbourhood. It [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}