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Lewis & Clark residence hall designed by Mahlum
A new 169-bed residence hall at Lewis & Clark College in Southwest Portland will serve two groups in one community. The building, designed by Mahlum and under construction in a design-build partnership with Walsh Construction, will house both undergraduates and graduate and law students.
DiLoreto Architecture designs OSU experiment station
A new Oregon State University experiment station in Moro will reflect the fields and community surrounding it.
PSU professor pushes humanitarian architecture
Portland State University and a French architecture school recently won a grant that will them partner to design and build two orphanages in Haiti. But PSU Professor Sergio Palleroni is hopeful that the partnership leads to something much bigger: public interest architecture.
Opsis Architecture designs Umpqua campus building
The Regional Allied Health and Science Center will be the first academic building constructed at Umpqua Community College since the campus was developed in the 1960s.
Student group fights Eugene riverfront development
A proposed office development in Eugene may not move forward at the planned site along the Willamette River near the University of Oregon. School officials last week announced that they were working with developer Trammell Crow Co. on a feasibility study to see if a building for the Oregon Research Institute could be constructed on a different site.
University of Portland named one of greenest colleges in U.S.
From a campus carpool program to a strategy to reduce food waste, the University of Portland has charted a careful course to going green, and that effort has gained attention.
Photos: Portland State University celebrates start of dorm project
A new residence hall for Portland State University is on schedule to be completed in fall 2012. The 16-story building, named College Station, and will include 978 beds, a fitness center, classrooms, a lecture hall and retail space.
UO students win prize for design project
Students at the University of Oregon brought home a $7,500 cash prize this month from a national architecture organization for their design of a Salem police station. The National Council […]
University of Portland names head of engineering school
Sharon A. Jones has served as a tenured faculty member at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and as the director of the engineering division at Lafayette College. In July, she'll settle into a new role in a new city as dean of the Donald P. Shiley School of Engineering at the University of Portland. She will replace Zia Yamayee, who has been the school's dean for the past 15 years.
Bend college pursues green certification, but not LEED
A $12.5 million science building project at Central Oregon Community College is pursuing Earth Advantage's green certification program instead of the popular Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification. The team behind the project says EA places a greater emphasis on energy savings than LEED does.
Oregon green tech startups receive funding
Four Oregon business-university teams were awarded commercialization grants today from the Oregon Built Environment & Sustainable Technologies Center.
PCC Newberg near net-zero goal
The Newberg Center project could become Portland Community College's first net zero building.
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- $960,000 office renovation in Portland building permits | Aug. 10, 2026
- Two projects in historic districts in Portland land use review intakes | Aug. 10, 2026
- Multnomah County commits up to $101.6M for Moda Center
- Portland code changes to take effect in November
- Los Colibris project approved for Portland’s OMSI District
- Pacific Northwest projects totaling $9.9 million in top bidders | Aug. 7, 2026
- Oregon opens infrastructure grant program
- Ex-TV host claps back at Detroit officials in blight case
- 31-unit multifamily project in Portland land use review intakes | Aug. 3, 2026
- $2.4 million office renovation in Portland building permits | Aug. 3, 2026
- Transportation commission weighs ODOT budget cuts
- Lam Research planning $1.7 billion investment in Tualatin
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- Clarifying the reach of a law regarding prevailing wage | Opinion
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