WORK SERVICES VALUES CAREERS ABOUT NEWS CONTACT PAE LIVING BUILDING MENU 500 Years The Inspiration of Living Buildings: The PAE Living Building The Inspiration of Living Buildings: The PAE Living Building The Developer-Led Model: The PAE Living Building The Developer-Led Model: The PAE Living Building Vision The PAE Living Building embodies our vision to help solve the planet’s energy and water challenges. As the world’s first developer-driven Living Building, the five-story, mixed-use building demonstrates replicable and cost-effective solutions for sustainable design and removes barriers to entry for highly sustainable projects all while enhancing the neighborhood and acting as a regenerative ecosystem. We want to share our building with the community and all of its unique features, inside and out. Our goal is to have Living Buildings around the world and we hope to inspire many more engineers, architects, designers, and the next generation of builders. For more information click here and visit Luma Lighting Design to learn about the lighting and lighting control and how it plays a key role in occupant health, comfort, and the overall energy efficiency of the building. "The PAE Living Building: Developer-Led, Nature-Inspired" book is a valuable resource for building professionals, students, or anyone interested in regenerative built environments that can be economically and ecologically sustainable. Coming soon: Buy your copy here. MATERIALS 2,737 items vetted to be redlist-free MATERIALS DIVERTED FROM THE LANDFILL 1,198 tons ENERGY PRODUCED BY PV ARRAY 368,000 kWh hours a year EMBODIED CARBON 2,000 tons WATER USE PER YEAR 180,000 gallons PRODUCTIVITY INCREASE 2-5% Stories Developer-Led Our Living Building is the first to use a Developer-led model. In this project, investors, some of which are tenants, joined with the expectation of a return on their investment. Throughout the project financials were constantly balanced between cost and returns on investment, along with finding a path to a Living Building. This created a uniquely replicable project that mitigates the question of affordability for future investors, paving the way for even more Living Buildings in the future. 500 Years This building is meant to last 500 years: longer than the city of Portland has been around! We hope to surpass a normal office building’s lifespan of 50-100 years, for a number of reasons: durable materials like local timber, an open floorplan that allows flexibility for future occupants or types of use, and a strong seismic core meant to survive a large earthquake. The seismic resilience of the building is rated to Class IV, which is the same as essential buildings like fire stations and hospitals. Let’s not forget, we also hope people will love our building as part of the fabric of our culture and help preserve it for years – centuries – to come. Equity In adding enough solar panels, designers ran into an issue: there was not enough space on the roof in the Historical District block to install panels to reach 100% of the energy needs of the building. Through the local community and an idea from the contractor, Walsh Construction Co., a clever solution presented itself: PAE donated 60% of the PV panels to a local affordable housing development. Through this plan, the PAE Living Building retains the Renewable Energy Credits, while the housing development gets a boost of on-site energy at no cost. Learn how we are aiming to achieve Living Building certification The Living Building Challenge is a visionary path for a regenerative future. Using a flower as a symbol for the ideal built environment, the certification is organized into seven performance Petals for the team to achieve in design, construction, and post-occupancy. The Seven Petals The Living Building Challenge is organized into seven areas. PLACE WATER ENERGY HEALTH AND HAPPINESS MATERIALS EQUITY BEAUTY Place Restoring a healthy interrelationship with nature. SOLUTIONS Water Creating developments that operate within the water balance of a given place and climate. SOLUTIONS Energy Relying on current solar energy. SOLUTIONS Health and Happiness Creating environments that optimize physical and psychological health and well-being. SOLUTIONS Materials Endorsing products that are safe for all species through time. SOLUTIONS Equity Supporting a just and equitable world. SOLUTIONS Beauty Celebrating design that uplifts the human spirit. SOLUTIONS SITE MAPCONTACT USGET CONNECTEDLAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT © 2021 PAE Engineers. All rights reserved. a FINE site