San Francisco Mandates Bird-Safe Building Standards
November 25th 2011
In July 2011, San Francisco took the bold and beautiful step to become another major city in the world to mandate bird-safe building measures. It’s Standards for Bird-Safe Buildings includes requirements for location-related hazards and building feature-related hazards. It’s feature-related hazard requirement states that “regardless of whether the site is located inside or adjacent to an Urban Bird Refuge, 100% of building feature-related hazards shall be treated.”
There is also a section on the construction of wind turbines in urban areas.
Congratulations to everyone involved in producing the standard and for raising the bar on bird-safe building criteria!
You can download the San Francisco Standards for Bird-Safe Buildings at:
