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C A S E S T U D Y Nic Lehoux The design team for the Newberg Center focused on four areas of sustainable design: creating a highly efficient envelope, maximizing passive strategies, using efficient systems and engaging building users. GROUND ZERO B Y D O U G R E I M E R , A I A ; A N D J O H N M C M I C H A E L , P. E . , M E M B E R A S H R A E As the first building on what could potentially become an entirely net zero energy campus, the Portland Community College (PCC) Newberg Center represents a pioneering model for higher education institutions. Sustainable features are integrated building blocks of the design rather than attachments. The end result is a form expressive of its passive design strategies - from the curtain wall to the use of the ventilation stacks as an organizing element in the building. But the more important outcome is PCC's engagement in living within the building's energy footprint, educating themselves and students about energy-saving behavioral changes - such as wearing seasonally appropriate clothing - and the larger issue of environmental stewardship. Nic Lehoux Goals 50 The Newberg Center now meets those When the PCC Newberg Center was local needs, reduces travel-related conceived, an overarching goal was to greenhouse gases, and provides accesprovide convenient access to higher sibility to those without an automobile. PCC aspires to make its entire education for the surrounding community. In recent years PCC noted an Sylvania Campus net zero energy, so upward trend of high school graduit was logical to begin the effort with ates from the Newberg area commut- a relatively small building at the ing to PCC's Sylvania Campus, which Newberg Center, which is a satellite required a 40-mile round-trip trek to the Sylvania Campus. Designing along a traffic-congested highway. and operating a living laboratory to HIGH PERFORMING BUILDINGS Winter 2015

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High Performing Buildings - Winter 2015
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Oakland University Human Health Building
David & Lucile Packard Foundation Headquarters
Locust Trace AgriScience Center
PNC Net Zero Bank Branch
Portland Community College Newberg Center
HPB Technology
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High Performing Buildings - Winter 2015