According to the GSA, energy efficiency is becoming a way of life, not only to cut costs at more than 9,600 assets that it owns or rents, but also to meet the 2007 federal mandate that government buildings slash energy consumption 30 percent by 2015.
To meet those goals, and to push the whole market forward, it launched the Green Proving Ground program to evaluate sustainable building technologies. Based on performance, the GSA can then recommend technologies to its portfolio.
The GSA has already published findings on occupant-responsive fluorescent lighting, but now it has turned its attention to LEDs and controls.
As part of the Recovery Act, the GSA had more than 200 projects of lighting retrofits, but few were LEDs. “The Green Proving Ground GPG program is looking at the next generation of products that are targeting general office lighting, which is the great frontier,” said Kevin Powell, program manager for Green Proving Ground. The frontier has certainly moved to LEDs, which have come down significantly in price.
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