These are special case studies of great energy efficient buildings, selected from several areas in northern and southern California. Design teams for these buildings participated in the Savings By Design program funded by California utility customers and administered by Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Diego Gas and Electric, Southern California Edison Company and the Southern California Gas Company.

Design support services and incentives for energy efficient building projects in California are available at Savings By Design. A variety of design and information resources for energy efficient buildings are available at Energy Design Resources.

In addition to these detailed case studies at GreatBuildings.com, continuing current and archival coverage of energy efficient building design and construction, and of green architecture and planning more generally, can be found online in the Environment Department at ArchitectureWeek.

California College of Arts, San Francisco Campus, by Skidmore Owings and Merrill (SOM), with renovation and conversion by LMS Architects, at San Francisco, California, 1951, renovated and converted 1997 to 1998.

Fetzer Winery Administration Building, by Valley Architects, at Hopland, California, 2002.

Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center, by James Plachek, renovation by ELS Architecture and Urban Design, at Berkeley, California, 1940, 2001.

Ocean Beach People's Organic Foods Market, by Hanna Gabriel Wells, at Ocean Beach, California, 1999 to 2002.

UCSB Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca, at Santa Barbara, California, 1999 to 2003.

UCSF Genentech Hall, by SmithGroup, at San Francisco, California, 1999 to 2003.

These energy efficient building case studies have been supported by a development grant funded by California utility customers and administered by Pacific Gas and Electric Company, under the auspices of the California Public Utilities Commission.