General Services Administration, Department of Energy Issue RFI for Technologies that Increase Sustainability of Buildings

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The Normal Providers Administration’s (GSA’s) Inexperienced Proving Floor program, in collaboration with the U.S. Division of Power’s (DOE’s) Building Technologies Office (BTO), announced a brand new request for info (RFI) on August 1, 2024, centered on enabling vitality effectivity and decarbonization in business buildings, contributing to a extra environment friendly electrical infrastructure, and bettering resiliency and occupant well being. GSA’s Green Proving Ground (GPG) program makes personal and public sector business buildings obtainable to constructing science practitioners to validate promising constructing applied sciences in real-world buildings. Check websites obtainable by means of this program embody GSA’s in depth actual property portfolio and the buildings of DOE’s Higher Buildings companions, together with over 950 organizations throughout the nation.

When a expertise is chosen for analysis within the GPG, GSA and DOE match it with a number of buildings and straight oversee its set up and analysis. These “proving grounds” give DOE’s nationwide laboratory consultants a possibility to judge the technical and operational traits of mature, however not broadly deployed, constructing applied sciences in real-world buildings. By means of its Business Buildings Integration (CBI) program, BTO then shares classes discovered from these assessments with its in depth community of buildings business stakeholders that might set up them in services they personal or function.

DOE and GSA announced the most recent cohort of GPG initiatives final month, bringing the overall variety of applied sciences deployed all through GSA’s actual property portfolio to 54. Since 2011, the GPG program has evaluated 107 applied sciences, 23 of which have been deployed throughout greater than a 3rd of GSA’s federally owned portfolio. Annually, these GPG applied sciences keep away from the emission of 116,000 tons of carbon dioxide and save the federal government $28 million.

This yr’s RFI is looking for rising and sustainable applied sciences that assist:

• Deep vitality retrofits.
• All-electric buildings and all-electric automobile fleets.
• Wholesome and resilient buildings.
• Constructing supplies with low embodied carbon.
• Web-zero emission operations.
• Packages of rising and sustainable expertise options.

The RFI is open for submissions till Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. ET. Submissions have to be applied sciences or options which can be technically and commercially prepared for analysis in occupied, operational buildings. Events occupied with submitting an utility can overview the RFI on sam.govobtainable straight at Solicitation #FY25RFI080124. Please direct inquiries concerning the RFI to gpg@gsa.gov.

Courtesy of US DOE.