PRESS RELEASE: GSA awards $2.2 million in contracts to improve federal facilities in the Denver area

September 18, 2024

Press Release
U.S. General Services Administration

For Immediate Release:

September 18, 2024

Contact: richard.stebbins@gsa.gov

GSA awards $2.2 million in contracts to improve federal facilities in the Denver area  

Funded by the Inflation Reduction Act as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda

DENVER – The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded approximately $2.2 million in three contracts to support renovations at federal buildings in Boulder and the Denver Federal Center.

Funded through the Inflation Reduction Act as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, GSA awarded approximately $1.7 million to Procon Consulting LLC to provide Construction Manager as Advisor services in two separate projects. Procon Consulting LLC will support curtain wall replacements and parking lot improvements at the David Skaggs Research Center in Boulder, Colorado, and window replacements at Building 25 on the Denver Federal Center in Lakewood, Colorado.

At the Skaggs Research Center GSA plans to install a triple-pane, three-story curtain-wall system at the main entrance of the building. The new windows will use low-embodied carbon glass to save energy and improve interior tenant comfort. Additionally, the current 600,000-square-foot parking lot at the Research Center will be repaved with low-embodied carbon asphalt to maintain necessary conditions while reducing the climate-changing impact of the work.

At Building 25 on the Denver Federal Center, GSA plans to replace current single-pane window units with a triple-pane window system. The new windows will use low-embodied carbon glass to save energy and improve interior tenant comfort. 

In a separate project, GSA awarded approximately $500,000 in Inflation Reduction Act funding for a contract to National Glazing Solutions LLC for window film installation at Building 67 on the Denver Federal Center. The window film reduces energy costs and provides increased durability while reducing the reflectivity, which improves interior tenant comfort.

The Biden-Harris Administration is leading by example to tackle the climate crisis through President Biden’s Federal Sustainability Plan, which establishes an ambitious path to achieve net-zero emissions from federal buildings by 2045.

GSA’s Inflation Reduction Act investments further the Federal Buy Clean Initiative, and will help catalyze our purchasing power to spur markets for American-made products with substantially lower levels of embodied greenhouse gas emissions associated with their extraction, production, transport and manufacturing.

The Inflation Reduction Act includes $3.4 billion for GSA to develop the market for low-embodied carbon materials, and to deliver more sustainable and cost-efficient high-performance public facilities. Through these investments, GSA estimates that it could reduce carbon emissions by 2.3 million metric tons in operational greenhouse gas emissions alone. That is the equivalent of taking approximately 500,000 gasoline-powered passenger vehicles off the road for one year.

For more information about GSA’s Inflation Reduction Act projects, visit Inflation Reduction Act.

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About GSA: GSA provides centralized procurement and shared services for the federal government, managing a nationwide real estate portfolio of nearly 370 million rentable square feet, overseeing about $100 billion in products and services via federal contracts, and delivering technology services that serve millions of people across dozens of federal agencies. GSA’s mission is to deliver the best customer experience and value in real estate, acquisition, and technology services to the government and the American people. For more information, visit GSA.gov and follow us at @USGSA.