award-wining, AFFORDABLE, re-locatable classroom alternative

SAGE Classroom was started by the Architecture and Engineering faculty and students at Portland State University as a vehicle for exploring how they, as future professionals, could use their talents in service of public good. The project’s importance was recognized by Governor John Kitzhaber who designated the project an official ‘Oregon Solution’ in 2011. The process generated a multi-partner entity including Portland State University’s Green Building Research Lab and the Institute for Sustainable Solutions along with the American Institute of Architects of Portland, State of Oregon Building Codes Division, Portland Public Schools, the Energy Trust of Oregon, and Oregon BEST.

The SAGE Classroom is the product of years of partnership between many public, governmental, non-profit and for profit organizations, as well as industry leaders McKinstry and PAE engineers to produce a highly affordable, healthy and green classroom for a market increasingly relying on manufactured classrooms. The research and design team was lead by Portland State University’s Schools of Architecture and Engineering along with our manufacturing partner Blazer Industries. The project team is lead by CPID Director Sergio Palleroni and CPID Fellow Margarette Leite. The SAGE classroom became in 2012 the most affordable LEED Platinum rated building in North America and one of the healthiest learning environments in the continent. It was one of two building showcased at full scale at the 2012 world Greenbuild conference (San Francisco, CA).

Partners

ATCO
Blazer Industries
Pacific Mobile Structures
Portland State University Center for Public Interest Design
Portland State University Institute for Sustainable Solutions
Portland State University School of Architecture

Greenbuild Prototype Classroom Sponsors

Oregon Solutions: Green Modular Classroom Task force