Envise’s expertise in both retrofit work and new construction allowed us to take on the entire building automation system (BAS) scope, which spanned across a facility with multiple generations of controls and added approximately 5,000 hardware control points.

Envise implemented a staggered work plan that allowed for the decoupling and replacement of the occupied convention center’s controls without the owner having to cancel a single convention booking or having a degradation of climate or customer comfort.

Envise also engineered and executed a custom solution assisting Southland with design-build scope of the Moscone rainwater harvesting and water treatment system. The system helps the city capture and treat over 15 million gallons of water a year in-house. Water that would be sent to sewage is instead reused for gardens, toilet flushing, and supplying a truck fill-station for city sweepers and water trucks.

This innovative system helped the client achieve platinum certification from Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), the most widely used green building rating system in the world. Moscone scored 90 out of a possible 111 points to make it the highest-scoring LEED convention center in the world.

As Envise’s first high-profile job for San Francisco Public Works, the success of the Moscone work has led to an ongoing service agreement, as well as numerous other projects, such as SFO Terminal 1, the Airport Grand Hyatt and the San Francisco Forensics Lab.