Bold Public-Private Venture Aims to Make Ore. City an 'Icon of Sustainability'
“The Oregon Sustainability Center, slated for construction at the edge of Portland State University’s downtown campus, will generate all of its electricity, consume only the rain that falls upon it, and process all of its wastewater. The ‘triple-net-zero’ building will have offices for businesses with an eye on the triple bottom line—economic, social and environmental sustainability—as well as space for municipal urban planners, nonprofit environmental groups, and university administrators, faculty and students.
‘We aspire to this driving Portland as an icon of sustainability,’ said Lisa Abuaf, a senior project manager with the Portland Development Commission, the city’s urban renewal agency. ‘At the same time, we want it to be something replicable, so that the knowledge base created by this building is exportable.’”
