A Four-Step Path to a Comprehensive Energy Management Action Plan

The building footprint of the U.S. federal government is enormous. According to the 2007 Federal Real Property Report published by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), federal government agencies owned, leased and otherwise managed nearly 450,000 diverse buildings that year, totaling more than 3.3 billion gross square feet. Energy is vital to the mission of each of those agencies as evidenced by the 600 trillion BTUs of energy used, at a cost of $6.2 billion, to power those buildings.

The building footprint of the U.S. federal government is enormous. According to the 2007 Federal Real Property Report published by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), federal government agencies owned, leased and otherwise managed near...