NEWS/ACCOMPLISHMENTS
12.10.2009
December 10, 2009 5:15 PM ET
Oregon’s most admired companies for 2009 were honored Thursday at a Portland Business Journal luncheon.
Gerding Edlen Development Co. received the Commercial Real Estate award. Runner-ups were Melvin Mark Companies, CRESA Partners, NAI Norris Beggs & Simpson Commercial Real Estate, Hoffman Construction Co., Colliers International,Cushman & Wakefield of Oregon Inc., PacTrust, CB Richard Ellis Inc., Ashforth Pacific Inc. and Walsh Construction. Scott Langley of Ashforth Pacific Inc. was the top CEO.
08.20.2009
Portlanders may have noticed a new addition to the downtown skyline this week when four wind turbines were added to the roof of developer Gerding Edlen's new Twelve West Building on southwest 12th Avenue. These small-scale turbines (45 feet tall compared to the massive 400-foot turbines in the Columbia River Gorge) will only produce about one percent of the building's total energy usage. However, the development company also hopes their presence will help promote renewable energy and help Portland stand out in the field. Portland isn't the only city to try rooftop wind turbines. Boston, New York and Hampton, New Hampshire have all taken an in
08.13.2009
Portland's distinctive skyline has a dramatic addition.
By the end of today, the graceful blades of four 45-foot-tall wind turbines are expected to begin spinning above the glossy new Twelve West Building, one of a handful of urban high-rises nationally that capture wind for electricity. The project, built downtown at Southwest 12th Avenue and Washington Street by sustainability leader Gerding Edlen Development Co., already has piqued international interest.
No one claims the turbines will shrink Portland's carbon footprint. They will produce about 9,000 kilowatt hours yearly -- 1 percent of the building's electricity needs.
08.02.2009
Dan Dyke, Matt Little, and Alanso Amezquita will lay about 11,000 square feet of solar panels at Pioneer-Columbia School in North Portland. The panels will provide about 15 percent of the building's energy needs. Other Portland Public Schools receiving solar panels include Woodstock, Creston, Roseway Heights, Lane, Atkinson, Lent, Scott, and Jackson.
It was harmonic convergence: During one of the hottest weeks in Portland's recorded weather history, workers labored under the blazing sun to harness solare energy at Woodstock Elementary School.
Workers are replacing parts of the roof that were old, rotten or leaking. They'er also laying dow
08.01.2009
Imagine a small, self-sustaining city of little more than 100 acres. All the Energy is generated there, all the storm water and sewage is processed there and even some of the food is grown there.
This is the place that Portland Community College officcials have been dreaming of for the past six months. It is the holy grail of green planning: net-zero carbon emissions, with resource management thrown in for good measure.
05.20.2009
Center City Development Corporation (CCDC) Board Unanimously Votes to Recommend City Take Next Step in Development of New Civic Center Complex
SAN DIEGO (5/20/09)—The Center City Development Corporation Board of Directors voted unanimously today to recommend that the City Council move into an exclusive negotiating agreement (ENA) with Gerding Edlen Development (GED) to build a new civic center complex, thoughtfully designed to be sustainably superior and the city's model for green development.
The GED proposal has been thoroughly vetted by Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) and Ernst & Young (E&Y) over the last
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05.15.2009
Project set to start in June will install solar panels atop nine public schools
Daily Journal of Commerce
by Sam Bennett
When students return to nine Portland public schools in the fall, they’ll be using power from the sun.
Under an agreement between Portland Public Schools and Gerding Edlen Development Co., the school district will receive enough solar panels to produce 883,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity annually.
The reroofing and solar installation project is scheduled to begin in June and will involve seismic repairs and replacement of roofs on the nine schools.
[complete story available via pdf]
04.26.2009
By JEFF KUECHLE, The Oregonian
Jared and Ann Roth of Hillsboro recently spent a sunny April weekend at one of Portland's most exclusive
riverfront properties.
Upon arrival, they discovered that the establishment's staff had stocked their refrigerator with prosciutto,
cheese, fruit, yogurt, and beer. They even provided gift cards for the nearby Japanese/French restaurant
called Le Hana Japanese Grill & Cafe, and the neighborhood coffee house called Rilassi.
The Roths spent part of their visit jogging along the riverfront, dining and watching a movie in their room.
They also rode the Portland Streetcar to Saturday Market [more]
04.15.2009
Brainstorming the Greenest of Buildings
By Libby Tucker
Oregon Sustainability Center Team members scribbled ideas for a new sustainability center at a meeting in Portland last week. Some of Portland’s most celebrated thinkers in green design gathered last week with city and state officials at the Gerding Edlen Development Company offices to dream up features for the city’s proposed Sustainability Center of Excellence — a state-of-the-art high-rise that would function both as an emblem of hyper-green design, and as a locus for green-building research and education in the region. [see PDF for complete story]
03.16.2009
A Green Building is Building Community
by arthur smid
What would green building look like on Easter Island? The question applies to Earth. If people use material resources to define their status, the natural world must provide the monuments to our satisfaction. Portland developer Gerding Edlen takes the long view. From outer space, green building would look blue. That's the idea behind calling their new high-rise apartment, Cyan.
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03.16.2009
...installation help a California project break new code ground.
Over the past few years numerous high-rise projects have been initiated in downtown Los Angeles, but the new 23-story Evo South changed business as usual and opened new doors for future construction methods.
Evo South includes a 23-story residential condominium tower over three subterranean levels. The 60,000 square-foot rectangular footprint of the below-grade levels occupies the entire project site.
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03.05.2009
The team of Gerding Edlen Development Co., SERA Architects and GBD Architects has been selected to perform a feasibility study for the Sustainability Center of Excellence in Portland.
Damin Tarlow of Gerding Edlen said the new building will be a sustainable structure that has “never been tried before” and said his team is “born to do this.”
“All the design capability we need is here in Portland and all we need to do is take it to the next level,” he said. “We will use a collaborative approach called integrated project delivery, so everyone (on the team) is responsible for everything.”
Complete article available via pdf.
03.05.2009
What do Mayor Sam Adams, developer Art DeMuro and alternative energy entrepreneur Nancy Floyd have in common?
All three have made the grade as 2009 Newsmakers, as identified by the Daily Journal of Commerce.
The DJC created the Newsmakers event and publication as a way to identify the most interesting people who influence and impact the local built environment.
02.09.2009
The USGBC Leadership Awards are given annually to recognize outstanding work to advance green building. In 2007, Gerding Edlen was honored to be the very first recipient of this prestigious award. Recipients are based on the following categories corresponding to USGBC’s strategic plan goal areas for advancing its mission:
Advocacy, Advancing LEED (TM) Standards, Education, Research, Community, Organizational Excellence
02.06.2009
By Rosanne Skirble
Washington
06 February 2009
At the heart of the economic stimulus package making its way through Congress is the creation of jobs in renewable energy and other environmentally friendly services. But a new report released by labor organizers and environmentalists warns that those jobs must be more than green. It says they must comply with standards that can sustain families and fuel the economy as well as protect the environment.
Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow says a green agenda can help reverse the enormous job losses in her state in recent years.
[complete story available via pdf]
02.04.2009
February 4, 2009
By Keith Schneider
Apollo News Service
The economic stimulus bill under consideration by Congress will include major investments in clean energy products and services, and will have the potential to create hundreds of thousands of green-collar jobs. But a comprehensive report, commissioned by three union groups and the Sierra Club and made public on Tuesday, asserts that the House and Senate versions of the bill do not do enough to ensure that green-collar jobs will provide wages and benefits sufficient to support a family.
[complete article available via pdf]
02.02.2009
Want to make a splash in the global Green Space beyond your home recycling bin? Ready for a career change? Looking to put your money where your mouth is and choose a degree that will get your foot in the door? The following industries are where it’s at if you want to make change on a global scale and keep the the environment in mind.
(complete article available on pdf)
02.02.2009
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Senate Finance Committee member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and House Energy and Commerce Committee member Jay Inslee, D-Wash., will join Laborers' International Union general president Terence O'Sullivan, Sierra Club political director Cathy Duvall, and clean energy business leaders and workers for a news conference on Tuesday, February 3 at 11 a.m. ET at the United States Capitol to urge Congressional leaders to take bold action to create a new Green American Dream for working people by making sure the newly created green jobs are good jobs that can sustain families and fuel economic recovery.
01.28.2009
Bellevue Towers will be complete in April though residents will begin moving in soon. So far, 190 of the 539 units have sold. Prices range from just below $500,000 to $9 million for the penthouse.
The $438 million Bellevue Towers project is changing Bellevue's skyline, and by bringing Portland-based developer Gerding Edlen to the region, it is also changing the city's environmental reputation.
Mike Brennan, director of Bellevue's Development Services Department, said this is the most prominent green building in the city and the first multifamily high-rise that has gone for LEED certification in Bellevue.
[story continued on pdf]