http://www.pcs.org This is Your Blog on Theater Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:27:54 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://www.pcs.org/history/comment-page-1/#comment-5293 Boss’s Blog - Jim Kelly, Owner » Blog Archive » Historic Preservation, Green at Core Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:44:12 +0000 http://pcs.myownsiteonline.com/the-four-pillars-history/#comment-5293 [...] The Portland Armory has approximately 55,000 square feet of space, enclosed and decorated by a lot of stone and bricks and iron and wood. When you consider how much energy it took to extract or manufacture all those materials, then transport them to this site and put them all together, the total embodied energy in this building is the equivalent of more than 700,000 gallons of gasoline. If we assume the average vehicle gets about 21 miles to the gallon, that means there’s enough embodied energy in this building to drive a car about 15 million miles. [...] [...] The Portland Armory has approximately 55,000 square feet of space, enclosed and decorated by a lot of stone and bricks and iron and wood. When you consider how much energy it took to extract or manufacture all those materials, then transport them to this site and put them all together, the total embodied energy in this building is the equivalent of more than 700,000 gallons of gasoline. If we assume the average vehicle gets about 21 miles to the gallon, that means there’s enough embodied energy in this building to drive a car about 15 million miles. [...]

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