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Pod Build Challenge
Submitting Company: SRG Partnership
Location: Portland
Cost: $403,500
Start Date: September 2019
Completion Date: March 2019
Owner/Developer: Catholic Charities of Oregon
Architect: SRG Partnership
Engineer: KPFF
Additional Engineering Firms: PAE, PLACE, Portland State University Center for Public Interest Design
General Contractor: Andersen Construction
Subcontractors: AGC Oregon-Columbia chapter sponsoring the Northwest College of Construction, BC Custom Construction, Bremik Construction, Builders First Source, DR Horton, Elite Development Northwest, Kenton Women鈥檚 Village Support Services, Lease Crutcher Lewis, Legend Homes sponsoring Professional Women in Building, LMC Construction, Lovett Deconstruction, O鈥橬eill/Walsh Community Builders, P&C Construction, R&H Construction, Scott | Edwards Architecture, Skanska, Stephens House sponsoring Professional Women in Building, students of PSU School of Architecture and Center for Public Interest Design, The Rebuilding Center, Turner Construction

The Pod Build Challenge brought 21 teams from the residential and commercial building communities to build new sleeping pods for formerly homeless women living at the Kenton Women鈥檚 Village in North Portland.

Catholic Charities, in partnership with Andersen Construction Foundation, PSU Center for Public Interest Design, Joint Office of Homeless Services, SRG Partnership, Home Builders Foundation, Home Builders Association, Kenton Neighborhood Association, LMC Construction and others organized the challenge, where volunteers donated labor and materials to build one of three sleeping pod designs created by local architecture firms.

The Pod Build Challenge Community Day and Celebration was held April 5, 2019, at Kenton Women鈥檚 Village. It brought together the build teams to put the final touches on their pods and compete in a friendly competition in several categories. These included 鈥淏est Innovative Use of Materials鈥� and 鈥淏est in Show,鈥� and judges included some of the residents who live in the village.

Kenton Women鈥檚 Village is designed to provide a safe, dignified and constructive temporary sanctuary for women who are seeking to transition from homelessness to permanent housing with health care, an income and connections to services and community.