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PCC Newberg Center – Portland AIA 2011 Sustainable Design Award Winner – Rethink Energy and Design
Photos and story by Gina Whitehill-Baziuk
A 2011 Design Awards jurist commented upon the ˿Ƶ, Newberg Center, winner of this year’s Sustainable Design Award, saying “the building is a diagram of itself”. What might that mean? Well, unlike the hidden building systems in many facilities, you can get a good sense of how the Newberg Center operates, just by (carefully) looking at it.
With an integrated design team led by , the 13,500 square foot building, the first constructed on the nearly 16 acre Newberg campus, is one of a very few academic buildings nationally, that can be described as “on the path to net zero”.
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