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The PAE Living Building is the 35th building in the world to earn full certification from the Living Building Challenge, the International Living Future Institute's rigorous sustainability program.
Systems within a highly efficient structure Last month, crews continued to construct the five-story PAE Living Building in downtown Portland. The project team is on track to deliver the building in September. (Josh Kulla/for the DJC) The challenge: construct a building to meet perhaps today’s most advanced sustainability metrics. The anticipated outcome: a self-sufficient building in terms of energy use, water use, waste, and more. PAE Engineers, ZGF Architects and Walsh Construction embarked on this expedition nearly three years ago. Now the project team is just a few months from complet...
Mass timber 'Living Building' planned for downtown Portland January 13 2021 PAE will be the anchor tenant in a mostly mass-timber office building that pushes the envelope for energy efficiency. The engineering firm PAE, which did the mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineering for Seattle's Bullitt Center, is forging ahead on its own Portland headquarters. Behind the Pine Street Market food hall and Kell's Irish pub in downtown Portland, the structure will be built to Living Building standard, the hardest benchmark to achieve in energy efficiency. It should be the first certi...