Portland State Magazine Spring 2010

Shattuck Hall earns a top award for its energy-saving mechanicals, which are exposed as a teaching tool for architecture students. Two other water- and energy– saving projects on campus are also bringing kudos to the University. Photos by Kelly James. Energy savings pay off MORE FRESH A I R and less water and energy use in campus buildings not only provide a teaching cool for students, it's earned the University more than $1 million. In December, the University was awarded a $1 million grant to drill geothermal wells and purchase a 1,000-ton heat pump for the heating and cooling of 13 campus buildings. It was one of 18 renewable energy projects chat received funding by the state in December through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as the Stimulus Acc. In January, President Wim Wiewel accepted a $313,114 incentive check from Energy Trust of Oregon for energy– efficiency improvements to the Fourth Avenue Building on Southwest Fourth and Harrison. Improvements to the building's heating and cooling system are saving an estimated 1.4 million kilowatt hours or $126,000 in annual energy costs. Purchased by the University in 1997, the Fourth Avenue Building houses engineering departments and classrooms as well as PSU Information Technologies offices. Also in January, Portland State and PAE Consulting Engineers won Project of the Year, the American Council of Engineering Companies of Oregon's top award, for last year's remodel of Shattuck Hall. Judges were most impressed with the energy-saving electrical and mechanical upgrades to the former grade school, built in 1914, and the exposure of chose systems as a "reaching tool for the architects of the future." SPRING 20 10 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 3