Award Program Results 2008

WINNING ENTRIES SELECTED IN GSA FY 2008 ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR REAL PROPERTY INNOVATION

For this year's Achievement Award program, GSA sought entries demonstrating innovation, creativity and best practices in two categories of Federal real property: Asset Management and Sustainability.  GSA received a total of 42 entries from 13 Federal agencies for this year's program, resulting in an extremely competitive field.  Submitted entries included 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.

The competition resulted in one winning entry in the Asset Management category and one winning entry in the Sustainability category.  GSA honored ten exemplary entries, including the two winning entries, at an Awards Ceremony on October 14, 2008 in Washington, D.C.  In an effort to encourage the adoption and adaptation of these practices throughout the Federal government, cash awards in the amount of $10,000 were presented to each of the two winning entries. 

Summaries of all submitted entries have been included in a special edition of GSA's Office of Governmentwide Policy (OGP) Policysite newsletter.

In the Asset Management field, the honored entries for the Twelfth Annual GSA Achievement Award for Real Property Innovation are:

Winning Entry:
"Roof Asset Management Program"
Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration

Finalists:
"Design Excellence Program,/National Register of Peer Professionals"
General Services Administration, Public Buildings Service, Office of the Chief Architect/Construction Programs

"TSA Real Estate-Continuous Improvement Program"
Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Program

"Construction Operations Building Information (COBIE)"
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Honorable Mention:
"Energy Savings Through the Use of Electrical Timers"
General Services Administration, Public Buildings Service, Great Lakes Region

"Associate Training"
General Services Administration, Public Buildings Service, Heartland Region

"Department of Transportation's President's Management Agenda (PMA) Real Property Team"
Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration

In the Sustainability field, the honored entries for the Twelfth Annual GSA Achievement Award for Real Property Innovation are:

Winning Entry:
"New San Francisco Federal Building"
General Services Administration, Public Buildings Service, Pacific Rim Region

Finalist:
"RetroCommissioning Lite--Meeting the Target"
General Services Administration, Public Buildings Service, Mid-Atlantic Region

Honorable Mention:
"Denver Federal Center--One Megawatt Solar Park"
General Services Administration, Public Building Service, Rocky Mountain Region