WINNING ENTRIES SELECTED IN GSA FY 2007 ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR REAL PROPERTY INNOVATION
David L. Bibb, Deputy Administrator for the General Services Administration (GSA), has announced the winning entries for this year's Eleventh Annual GSA Achievement Award for Real Property Innovation. "Throughout the eleven years of the Real Property Innovation Awards program, nearly 400 great ideas from the Federal real property community have been generated and shared," said Bibb, "which have contributed to the effort to help improve governmentwide management of real property assets held in public trust."
For this year's Achievement Award program, GSA sought entries demonstrating innovation, creativity and leading practice in the two categories of Federal real property Asset Management and Sustainability. GSA received a total of 32 entries from 15 Federal agencies for this year's program, resulting in an extremely competitive field. Submitted entries include a wide variety of projects from across the Federal sector, covering a broad range of real property areas, technical specialties and geographic locations. Some entries focus on a single facility, while others describe wide-range frameworks that are national in scope. An independent panel of real property professionals reviewed and evaluated the entries in both the Asset Management and Sustainability categories.
This year's competition resulted in one winning entry in the Asset Management category and one winning entry in the Sustainability category. GSA will honor nine exemplary entries, including the two winning entries, at an Awards Ceremony on October 17, 2007 in Washington, D.C. In the effort to encourage the adoption and adaptation of these practices throughout the Federal government, cash awards in the amount of $10,000 will be presented to each of the two winning entries.
In the Asset Management field, the honored entries for the Eleventh Annual GSA Achievement Award for Real Property Innovation are:
Winning Entry:
"GSA National 3D-4D BIM Program"
General Services Administration, Public Buildings Service, Office of Chief Architect/Capital Construction Program
Finalists:
"Department of Army Enhanced Use Leasing Program and Case Study - Yuma Proving Grounds, AZ"
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
"USDA Forest Service Conveyance Program"
Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
Special Achievement:
"Armed Forces Retirement Home - RFP"
General Services Administration, Public Buildings Service, National Capital Region
In the Sustainability field, the honored entries for the Eleventh Annual GSA Achievement Award for Real Property Innovation are:
Winning Entry:
"Greening Prisons"
Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons
Special Achievement:
"New England Solar: It's the Right Thing to Do"
General Services Administration, Public Buildings Service, New England Region
"Byron G. Rogers Federal Courthouse - Paving the Way for High Performance Buildings and Sustainable Buildings Practices"
General Services Administration, Public Building Service, Rocky Mountain Region
"Green Building Leads Economic Resurgence"
Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
"A Demonstration of Low Impact Development by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at Federal Triangle, Washington, DC"
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency