Commercial Building

Buildings define communities for generations. In Portland, good urban design and progressive development practices are helping shape a 21st century city where people want to live, work and play.

A growing number of Oregon companies and organizations are identifying sustainability as an important value and practice. Increased demand for green products and services is also being fueled by mounting scientific and practical evidence of green building benefits: energy savings, operations and maintenance cost reductions, air quality and worker productivity improvements, to name a few. These benefits are catching the attention of the building industry and the imagination of the public.

“A decade ago, green building was relatively obscure and loosely defined. Now it’s not a question of whether to build green, but how.”
- Bob Naito, Naito Development, LLC