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Tour of Sustainable Apartments in San Francisco to Feature PATH Technologies

Innovations from the Technology Inventory of the Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH) will be featured in a Dec. 8 tour of the sustainable Folson/Dore Apartments project in San Francisco.

Along with PATH, affordable housing developer Citizens Housing Corporation (CHC) is hosting the event so that developers, designers and contractors can get a first-hand look at such innovations as a highly efficient HVAC system, fly-ash concrete, construction waste management, low- or no-VOL paints, cabinets free of urea-formaldehyde, fiber-cement siding, compact-fluorescent lighting and photovoltaic roof panels that provide the common space lighting for the complex.

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The four- and five-story apartments use about 20% less energy than under California’s Title 24 standards. The project is being built in the city’s South of Market mixed-use neighborhood and parking for its residents is being reduced by 70% because it is close to public transportation. City CarShare, a fuel-efficient vehicles service for residents and community members, will use four of the parking spaces.

The development — which is expected to be finished by the early spring — will provide 98 affordable housing units for low- and very low-income residents.

For more information, e-mail Bambi Tran, or call her at 202-628-6100 x206.
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