Sustainable Facilities Tool U.S. General Services Administration

Buildings and facilities rely on the operation of mechanical systems and electrical systems to maintain a high level of indoor environmental qual...

Buildings represent about 76% of electricity use and 40% of U.S. primary energy use, making it essential to reduce energy consumption to reduce cost...

Net Zero Energy means that a building balances its energy needs with energy produced from renewable, zero-emission sources.  While Net Zero Ene...

This section covers and links to systems, methods, databases, calculators, checklists, etc. designed to help Federal officials and their partners ac...

One of the best ways to learn and make the case for high-performance building innovations is to point to others’ experience in implementing th...

Energy Management Systems (EnMS) are a set of business processes that enable facility managers to act on energy usage data and optimize eff...

Sustainability Programs incorporate all building stakeholders into the design process, promoting awareness, goal development, implementation, acc...

Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) accounts for approximately 44% of commercial building energy use.Source: U.S....

Plug loads can average approximately 30% of electricity use in office settings, much of which can be attributed to parasitic loads (power draw of a ...

Energy savings performance contracts (ES...

Individual sustainability projects should support strategic long-term goals. Here you can explore practical approaches to strategic long-term planni...

Comfortable workers are more likely to be productive and engaged with their work than those who struggle to work in spaces that create barriers and ...

Integrative thinking looks for synergies among strategies - strategies that enhance one another. It also looks for strategies that, taken together, ...

For each project there is a selection of issues and questions you should consider before selecting specific materials or products. This will help...

This page provides Sustainable Strategies to consider as a space has or will undergo a major tenant gut rehab for projects under 10,000 SF.

This page details Sustainable Strategies to consider as your space undergoes a building system upgrade to improve energy, water use, and occupant co...

Follow these sustainable strategies as your space renovations are complete and the building and interiors are operated in an environmentally sustai...

Environmental programs, both federal and third party, help buyers identify products and services with posit...

Guidance on how government tools and resources can be utilized during each phase of the procurement life cycle.

The Department of Defense (DoD) established a sustainable product purchasing program to enhance and sustain mission readiness through...

This section is devoted to the broad policies and strategies covering the whole government or entire agencies, services or bureaus, which set the co...

Learn why nature is so important to us, what we know about the benefits of nature, and how biophilia is being applied in buildings, particularly in ...

EO 13834 was issued on May 17, 2018.

Four key levers to enhance health and performance by improving indoor air.