For more than 100 years, the Department of Public Works has been designing and managing the construction of public facilities that now define San Francisco as a world-class city. In 1915, we built City Hall in just over two years, and after the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake we retrofit and strengthened this national landmark. More recently, DPW managed the construction of the world-renowned California Academy of Sciences, and we are currently modernizing 19 branch libraries as part of the largest building campaign in San Francisco Public Library history. We have worked on hundreds of capital projects, large and small, including those you don’t see every day — the ones keeping our infrastructure safe and our city moving.
Our ultimate client is the San Francisco taxpayer, resident, merchant or visitor. We are making significant improvements in the way we deliver these services to you by making projects more efficient and the bidding environment more competitive.
