The U.S. General Services Administration received nearly $5.6 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding to modernize federal facilities and convert them into high-performance green buildings. Those dollars are starting to flow into communities in the Southeast as projects ramp up.
“The government spends a lot of money on energy use in buildings, and anything we can do to make that better and reduce our carbon footprint is a good thing,” says Richard Stephenson, director of the design and construction division of GSA’s Southeast Sunbelt region in Atlanta.