GSA makes sustainable investments at Terry Sanford Federal Building and US Courthouse in Raleigh, NC

November 12, 2024

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

ATLANTA – The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced the award of a contract to PCI Support Services, LLC, a tribally owned, small business based out of Atmore, AL, using Inflation Reduction Act funds for repairs at the Terry Sanford Federal Building and US Courthouse in Raleigh, NC, as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda. This $11.3 million award highlights GSA’s commitment to collaborating and building more robust outreach to promote opportunities for small and socially economically disadvantaged entities.

“Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, this is another investment in America that creates good American jobs, saves money for taxpayers, and helps drive the market for sustainable building materials,” said GSA Administrator Robin Carnahan. “Projects like these demonstrate how buying clean can have benefits that are not only good for our federal buildings, but also the communities where they’re located.”

The project includes the replacement of the existing windows throughout the building with new energy efficient windows and doors made with low-embodied carbon glass. The project will replace all the windows with U.S.-manufactured glass by Guardian Glass. The glass meets GSA’s top performing low-embodied carbon criteria.

“The investment in this courthouse is an example of how we’re making strategic investments in critical facilities across the region,” said Jason Shelton, Regional Administrator for GSA’s Southeast Sunbelt Region. “The project will make repairs to building infrastructure, while using sustainable building materials and investing in small businesses.”

The funding for the improvements – made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act, the largest climate investment in history – will be used for low-embodied carbon materials that have fewer greenhouse gas emissions associated with their production.

The Terry Sanford Federal Building and US Courthouse project is one of more than 150 low-embodied carbon material projects that GSA announced in November 2023. The project is expected to be completed by spring 2026.

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 carbon 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.

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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 or join the conversation on social media @US_GSAR4 and other platforms.