Portland State University architecture professor Sergio Palleroni wants to build green portable classrooms for Portland schools.
Portland State University architecture professor Sergio Palleroni wants to build green portable classrooms for Portland schools.
Portland Public Schools – which has built only two new schools in the past 40 years – uses 129 portables, many of them with two classrooms each, says district spokesman Matt Shelby.
“Where we’re putting our kids, they spend eight hours a day, three-fourths of the year, in places that are not healthy, safe, learning-conducive places,” Palleroni says.
Gov. John Kitzhaber recently blessed the idea by naming it one of his Oregon Solutions initiatives. The initiative is uniting local designers, engineers, school facilities managers, building codes experts, and Blazer Industries, the Salem-area company that’s the Northwest’s largest builder of portable classrooms. Dennis Wilde of Gerding Edlen, a Portland green building guru, is convening the group.
Read more at The Portland Tribune.
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