{"id":299765,"date":"2010-02-09T06:51:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T11:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"tag:greentechnolog.com,2010:\/\/1.2152"},"modified":"2010-02-09T07:18:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T12:18:45","slug":"gsa-to-green-up-portland-oregonm-federal-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/299765","title":{"rendered":"GSA to Green-Up Portland, Oregonm Federal Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"3\" height=\"134\" border=\"3\" align=\"left\" title=\"Green Vertical wall\" alt=\"Green Vertical wall\" src=\"http:\/\/i.bnet.com\/blogs\/portland_vertical_garden_sera_architects.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The GSA is renovating the 18 story federal building in Portland, Oregon.&nbsp; Green features include a vertical green wall and reduced water usage with low flow fixtures and recycled roof water.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;&#8230; part of a $133 million renovation, the General Services Administration wants to grow &ldquo;vegetated fins&rdquo; on the western facade of the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building &#8230; save energy year-round using one of Mother Nature&rsquo;s own tools.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot; &#8230; will use 60 to 65 percent less energy than comparable buildings. That translates to an energy cost savings of $280,000 per year.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Solar panels could also provide up to 15 percent of the building&rsquo;s power needs. Energy use for lighting will be halved.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;&#8230; building in question was already slated for an energy efficiency upgrade, but funds from last year&rsquo;s federal stimulus package stressed projects that were environmentally friendly.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Via:<\/strong>&nbsp; SmartPlanet&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartplanet.com\/business\/blog\/smart-takes\/in-downtown-portland-an-18-story-vertical-urban-garden\/3853\/\"  title=\"SmartPlanet\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GSA is renovating the 18 story federal building in Portland, Oregon.&nbsp; Green features include a vertical green wall and reduced water usage with low flow fixtures and recycled roof water. &quot;&#8230; part of a $133 million renovation, the General Services Administration wants to grow &ldquo;vegetated fins&rdquo; on the western facade of the Edith Green-Wendell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}