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title: 'Portland Building Reconstruction'
url: 'https://ecorealdemo.arcdigitalservices.com/projects/portland-building'
markdown: 'https://ecorealdemo.arcdigitalservices.com/projects/portland-building.md'
date: '2026-10-06'
description: 'Portland Building Reconstruction: First WELL Building in the Pacific Northwest, LEED Platinum. ecoREAL Solutions project portfolio.'
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Civic · Historic Renovation

# Portland Building Reconstruction

First WELL Building in the Pacific Northwest, LEED Platinum

- ![The Portland Building after its reconstruction, seen from the street corner](https://ecorealdemo.arcdigitalservices.com/images/e/0/2/a/2/e02a201648f637221c444ec5f988aceaca8ba582-portland-building.webp)

 Photo: Diego Diaz 

## Overview

As Owner Rep Sustainability Lead for the City of Portland, Summer Fowler — a LEED AP and WELL Faculty member — provided a strategic approach to LEED and WELL Building goals. ecoREAL's pre-design triple-bottom-line report demonstrated a value-add path to LEED Platinum and WELL Building certification through a cost-benefit analysis of each strategy across human wellness, environmental impact, and life-cycle cost. WELL synergies were tracked to negate any perception of "sick building syndrome" — without affecting the public budget that was already set. The project registered as the first WELL Building in the Pacific Northwest.

### Key contributions

- Worked directly with the City of Portland from pre-design to set goals, with a sustainability matrix showing the synergies that make WELL Building a natural by-product of good design
- As early WELL Faculty, Summer brought the most cutting-edge resources and technologies from Delos
- Sustainability Matrix tracking all City sustainability goals (LEED, WELL, ETO)
- Eco-charrettes and triple-bottom-line cost-benefit analysis through human, environmental, and life-cycle cost lenses
- Sustainable design and specification assistance
- WELL Building feature implementation, owner reporting, and policy review
- Historic preservation project — the first WELL municipal building at the time of registration in 2016

 TypeCivic · Historic Renovation

LocationPortland, OR

Years2016 – 2020

CertificationLEED Platinum + WELL Building

Size300,000 SF

Budget$195M

ecoREAL RoleOwner's Sustainability Representative (City of Portland)

OwnerCity of Portland

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