GSA Administrator announces $80 million for smart building technologies as part of Biden-Harris Administration’s Investing in America agendaMasood
06/24/2024
[ Article originally appeared in www.gsa.gov ]
At RealComm, a major gathering of real estate technology leaders in Tampa, the Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) today announced plans to invest $80 million from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the largest climate investment in U.S. history, into smart building technologies that will help reduce emissions, increase efficiency and reduce costs, and enhance comfort across an estimated 560 federal buildings. The investments, impacting 49 states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Washington, DC, will also help create jobs and accelerate progress toward achieving net-zero emissions in the federal building portfolio by 2045, and other goals of President Biden’s Federal Sustainability Plan. “These smart investments through President Biden’s Investing in America agenda will drive down energy costs for taxpayers while making buildings more sustainable in the long-term,” said GSA Administrator Robin Carnahan. “Through the Inflation Reduction Act, GSA is going to make our building operations better, faster, and cheaper - all while creating good-paying jobs in communities.” GSA intends to enhance operations through granular controls, expand available reporting with more advanced metering sources, and optimize the operator experience through this IRA investment, including:
“GSA is paving the way for a brighter, more sustainable future for our federal footprint and commercial facilities across the United States,” said Elliot Doomes, GSA Commissioner for Public Buildings Service. ”These advanced systems will provide granular data that will reshape how our federal buildings are operated, maintained, analyzed and experienced.” The Inflation Reduction Act includes $3.4 billion for GSA to build, modernize and maintain more sustainable and cost-efficient high-performance facilities. This funding includes $975 million specifically for emerging and sustainable technologies, and related sustainability and environmental programs, including today’s announcement. GSA’s Inflation Reduction Act projects will implement new technologies and accelerate GSA’s efforts in achieving a net-zero emissions federal building portfolio by 2045. Through these investments, GSA estimates that it could reduce carbon emissions by 2.3 million metric tons, the same amount that 500,000 gasoline-powered passenger vehicles produce each year. This announcement is part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, focused on growing the American economy from the bottom up and the middle-out – from rebuilding our nation’s infrastructure, to creating a manufacturing and innovation boom to building a clean-energy economy that will combat climate change and make our communities more resilient.
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