Related Links: Oregon Universities Work To Meet Climate Challenge EWB Works on Water Project in Tanzania Portland - The port and city of Portland are partnering on a request for $35.49 million in federal grant funds for the Terminal 4 Multimodal Green Port Project. The U.S. Department of Transportation has made available $1.5 billion in TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) discretionary grants for capital investment in surface transportation projects that must be fully constructed by Feb. 17, 2012. If the grant application is successful, the Port will work with the city on projects that will improve Terminal 4 and

Related Links: Joshua Green Building Renovation Complete Dutch Harbor Cold Storage Built By Skagit County Firm New Hotel Slated For Lakewood Area Olympia – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) has adopted fee increases that will affect holders of stormwater and wastewater discharge permits in fiscal years 2010 and 2011. Ecology administers state and federal permits to regulate wastewater and stormwater discharges into Washington’s surface and underground waters. All permit holders are required to pay annual permit fees. Ecology uses the fee money to recover eligible costs associated with operating Ecology’s wastewater discharge permit program. Fees will increase by 5.2%

Related Links: Joshua Green Building Renovation Complete Discharge Permit Fees Increasing Soon New Hotel Slated For Lakewood Area Dutch Harbor, Alaska — Industrial Resources, Inc., has completed construction of Kloosterboer’s 80,000 sq ft cold storage facility in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Dutch Harbor, a small town in the remote Aleutian Islands, has no local access to lumber, hardware, steel or pipe so every component had to be pre-planned and ordered far in advance of needed delivery. Putting the facility together was like an international jigsaw puzzle because components came from around the world. IRI assembled all the components including steel from

Related Links: Port Partners with City To Win Tiger Grant Oregon Universities Work To Meet Climate Challenge Portland - Indigenous Education Foundation of Tanzania (IEFT), a non-profit grassroots organization that provides quality, affordable secondary education to underserved indigenous children in rural Tanzania, is partnering with the Portland Chapter of Engineers Without Borders-USA (EWB-USA) to ensure the staff and students of Orkeeswa Secondary School in Lashaine Village, Tanzania have a water supply system that is safe and dependable. Until recently, due to the absence of groundwater or surface water sources in and around Lashaine Village, rainwater was collected from the classroom

Related Links: First U.S. Prison to Earn Gold Located near Spokane Providence Health Services Earns Gold Certificate BOTHELL, WASH. Northshore School District is the top Energy Star school district in the state with 11 schools receiving the Energy Star Award in 2008. Energy Star, a joint venture of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of Energy, is a voluntary labeling program established in 1992 to help identify and promote energy efficient practices and products that help consumers save money while protecting the environment. Schools must meet stringent EPA performance standards, by using less energy and emitting fewer greenhouse

Photo Credit: LCL The Joshua Green Building was one of the first steel framed buildinings in Seattle. Related Links: Discharge Permit Fees Increasing Soon Dutch Harbor Cold Storage Built By Skagit County Firm New Hotel Slated For Lakewood Area Seattle – General contractor Lease Crutcher Lewis has completed restoration of the 112,000 sq ft historic Joshua Green Building, in downtown Seattle. Many of the historic features in the landmark 10-story building were unchanged since it was built in 1912, including terra cotta exterior, wood windows, the main lobby, and a stairway. Lewis refurbished and in many cases replicated new versions

Related Links: Port Partners with City To Win Tiger Grant EWB Works on Water Project in Tanzania Portland - McKinstry Co., Portland, and the The Oregon University System (OUS), formed a consortium of the seven public universities in Oregon, to create a climate action plan that will put them on the road to eventual carbon neutrality. McKinstry performed an integrated analysis of energy consumption across all seven OUS campuses which included engineering, financial, operation, and sustainability assessments. It then developed a climate action plan complete with target dates and metrics to achieve the eventual goal of a carbon-neutral OUS. For

Related Links: Joshua Green Building Renovation Complete Discharge Permit Fees Increasing Soon Dutch Harbor Cold Storage Built By Skagit County Firm Lakewood - A new 83-unit Candlewood Suites, which broke ground recently, is slated for completion in September 2010. To date, the city of Lakewood has invested more than $18 million to redevelop two-and-a-half miles of the Pacific Highway corridor resulting in property and roadway improvements making the area “ready to go” for new businesses. In addition to the new hotel, Lakewood Ford, LaQuinta Inn & Suites and Sound Transit have all built new facilities along Pacific Highway.

Related Links: Providence Health Services Earns Gold Certificate Northshore Named Most Energy Efficient District SPOKANE Coyote Ridge Corrections Center in Connell, Wash., has received LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). The project applied for and received a unique, campus-wide Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification. Although the CRCC project includes 21 individual buildings, the project submitted a single certification submission for the entire campus. Construction on the 2,048-bed medium-custody expansion began in June 2006 and was completed in October 2008 by joint venture partners Hunt Construction Group and Lydig Construction (Hunt/Lydig), and designed by