power cogeneration facility, SF

This small building houses a generator designed to produce half of the electricity needed to run the entire Southeast Water Pollution Control Facility using gas from the processed sewage as fuel. Heat produced by the generator is also recovered and used in other plant processes.

The architectural vocabulary matches that of the adjacent Boiler Building and site perimeter walls.

This project had been in the planning stages for almost twenty years and incorporates technology badly needed at a time when electricity and fossil fuels are both scarce and expensive.

Green features include an energy efficiency retrofit.