Jeremy Morgan just finished his first sustainable building, but the 24-year-old construction manager for Schommer & Sons in Portland is no longer green.

Morgan, a 2005 graduate of Oregon State University's engineering program, had little managing experience and no real knowledge of sustainable building. But he dove in head-first last year, overseeing construction of the Burnside Rocket, a four-story mixed-use project at 1111 East Burnside Street.

Developer Kevin Cavanaugh is shooting for a U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design platinum rating. If approved, the Rocket would become Schommer & Sons' first LEED project.

"It was all Jeremy who made it happen," Cavanaugh said. "With the Rocket under his belt, he's very much not green anymore. "