The Federal Government’s General Services Administration owns and leases over 350 million square feet of office space—nearly 10,000 buildings, housing more than a million federal employees. It oversees $66 billion of procurement annually and contributes to the management of about $500 billion in U.S. federal property. GSA is the nation’s largest commercial office landlord—more than twice the size of GE Captial Real Estate (with global total of 160 million square feet), and nearly three times that of CB Richard Ellis Investors portfolio (at 128 million square feet).
Images of a thermochromic window installation in action—an example of one of the green building technologies currently installed and being tested under the GSA Green Proving Ground Program. Image on left shows the glazing as it appears when not activated. Image shows how the glazing darkens when exposed to direct sunlight, automatically reducing solar heat gain.