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New GSA Standards for Federal Buildings Emphasize Performance

March 19, 2014March 19, 2014 by Kirsten Korosec

The U.S. General Services Administration’s new standards for its federal buildings focuses more on outcomes, or performance, and less on technology. The Facilities Standards for the Public Buildings Service, also known as the P100, is a mandatory standard that outlines how facilities will be managed, designed and built to achieve ... Read more »

Schneider Wins $6.4 Million Net Zero Energy ESPC

February 19, 2014August 2, 2019 by Leon Walker

The US General Services Administration has awarded Schneider Electric a $6.4 million Energy Savings Performance Contract for the Almeric Christian Federal Building in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. As part of GSA’s Deep Retrofit Challenge, this project will install energy efficiency improvements and renewable energy systems at the St. Croix ... Read more »

Platform Delivers Energy Intelligence

February 14, 2014February 14, 2014 by Bill Opalka

FirstFuel says its Remote Building Analytics (RBA) platform now delivers energy performance intelligence to support commercial segments of the energy efficiency lifecycle. The company unveiled its enhanced RBA platform, which it says includes portfolio screening, building auditing, customer engagement, and performance monitoring and verification. The technology monitors both interval and monthly ... Read more »

GSA Awards Siemens $37M Energy Savings Performance Contract

February 14, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

The General Services Administration (GSA) recently awarded a $37.2 million task order to Siemens Government Technologies to implement energy efficiency upgrades in its Great Lakes Region (Region 5). Using an Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) from the Department of Energy, the cost of the project will be funded by the ... Read more »

GSA Awards $191M in Energy Savings Performance Contracts

February 12, 2014August 2, 2019 by Linda Hardesty

The General Services Administration has awarded more than $191 million worth of energy savings performance contracts for nearly 100 buildings as part of its contribution to the Better Buildings Challenge. The GSA says its efforts so far will cut energy use in the facilities by 38 percent. ESPCs allow the ... Read more »

Green Globes Wins DoD Endorsement

December 10, 2013December 10, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

In another victory for the Green Globes, the US Department of Defense has decided to allow its facilities to use the green building certification program. While the US Green Building Council’s LEED certification has long been the standard of choice for the federal government’s new construction and major renovations, the ... Read more »

EPA Issues Draft Guidelines for Greener Buying

November 21, 2013November 21, 2013 by Kirsten Korosec

The EPA has issued a set of draft criteria to help the federal government identify and buy greener and safer products. The draft guidelines, which will be subject to a 90-day pubic comment period once they’re published in the Federal Register, propose a process to make it easier for federal ... Read more »

GSA Seeks Green Building Technologies to Test

November 6, 2013November 6, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The US government is seeking green building technologies that have the potential to improve economic and environmental performance in federal buildings. The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Green Proving Ground program uses the GSA’s own real estate portfolio as a test bed to evaluate the viability of emerging technologies and practices ... Read more »

GSA Closes 37 Data Centers

October 31, 2013 by Leon Walker

The US General Services Administration has closed 37 data centers this fiscal year as part of the national Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative, a program that aims to reduce energy consumption and avoid real estate costs. The 37 centers amount to 32 percent of the GSA’s non-core data centers. The closures ... Read more »

Green Globes Wins GSA Recommendation

October 28, 2013October 28, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

In a big win for the Green Building Initiative’s Green Globes certification program, the US General Services Administration (GSA) on Friday recommended the federal government use either the Green Globes or US Green Building Council’s LEED to gauge environmental performance in its construction and renovation projects. The GSA previously required ... Read more »

GSA Hits All Sustainability Targets for 2012

June 7, 2013June 7, 2013 by Leon Walker

The General Services Administration last year exceeded its fiscal year 2020 greenhouse gas reduction target, reducing emissions by more than 35 percent from 2008 levels, and reached its other sustainability benchmarks for longer term targets, according to its Office of Management and Budget 2013 Sustainability and Energy Scorecard. The GSA ... Read more »

GSA Expands Hybrid Fleet ‘Up to 10,000 Vehicles’

April 30, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The US General Services Administration says it will expand the number of hybrid vehicles in the federal fleet by up to 10,000 vehicles, resulting in the reduction of about 1 million gallons of fuel per year for the life of these vehicles. The GSA fleet consolidation initiative moves the federal ... Read more »

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