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 certified Living Building in Portland. The PAE Living Building is being constructed with cross-laminated timber panels and glulam columns.