U.S. General Services Administration
GSA makes sustainable investments at the Bannister Federal Complex
Funded by the Inflation Reduction Act as part of President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced a near $2.2 million contract award to Rand Construction Company, a full service general construction and mechanical construction contractor, for structural improvements at 2306 East Bannister Road in Kansas City, Missouri.
The Inflation Reduction Act funding will go towards building improvements, including structural, mechanical and electrical betterments on the west dock of the 2306-2312 Bannister Federal Complex.
“The investment in the Bannister Federal Complex continues to illustrate how GSA is making necessary improvements to facilities across the region,” said Denise Maes, Regional Administrator for GSA’s Heartland Region. “The project will make repairs to building infrastructure using sustainable building materials, while creating jobs right here in Kansas City.”
The funding for the improvements–made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act, the largest climate investment in history–will be used for low-embodied (LEC) carbon materials that have fewer greenhouse gas emissions associated with their production.
The Bannister Federal Complex project is one of more than 150 LEC material projects that GSA announced last November. The project is expected to be completed by September 2025.
The announcement furthers the Biden-Harris Administration’s Federal Buy Clean Initiative, under which the federal government is, for the first time, prioritizing the purchase of low-embodied carbon asphalt, concrete, glass and steel that have lower levels of greenhouse gas emissions associated with their production, use and disposal. These investments aim to expand America’s industrial capacity for manufacturing goods and materials of the future, address the climate crisis and create good-paying jobs for workers in the region.
The Inflation Reduction Act includes $3.4 billion for GSA to build, modernize, and maintain more sustainable and cost-efficient high-performance facilities. This funding includes $2.15 billion specifically for low-embodied construction materials. GSA’s Inflation Reduction Act projects will implement new technologies and accelerate GSA’s efforts toward achieving a net-zero emissions federal building portfolio by 2045. Through these investments, GSA estimates a total greenhouse gas emissions reduction of 2.3 million metric tons, the same amount that 500,000 gasoline-powered passenger vehicles produce each year.
This project is part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, focused on growing the American economy from the bottom up and the middle-out – from rebuilding our nation’s infrastructure, to creating a manufacturing and innovation boom, to building a clean-energy economy that will combat climate change and make our communities more resilient.
To learn more, visit GSA’s Inflation Reduction Act web page.
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