by Brianna Crandall — November 9, 2015—The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) jointly issued a Request for Information (RFI) in recent weeks for innovative, transformational green building technologies in support of their respective Green Proving Ground (GPG) and High Impact Technology (HIT) Catalyst programs.
The RFI seeks information from industry stakeholders, commercial organizations, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations on technologies that have the potential to improve economic and environmental performance in federal and commercial buildings. The results should certainly be of interest to facilities managers and building owners.
This year, the RFI is seeking technologies in the following five categories: energy management, window attachments, fans and blowers, renewable energy, and water conservation and reuse.
The RFI invites technology manufacturers and industry stakeholders to submit information on promising technologies, which will be used to identify technologies for evaluation through the GPG program, HIT Catalyst program, or both.
Selected technologies will be matched with federally owned buildings or commercial buildings, respectively, to pilot measurement and verification by third-party evaluators. Project results are intended to help spur deployment of high-impact technologies, and to inform public and private sector investment decisions.
The RFI will be open to applications until Friday, December 11, 2015, at 11:59 PM EST. Parties interested in submitting information can review the RFI on FedBizOpps.gov, on the Innovative Building Technologies — Green Proving Ground, HIT Catalyst Programs page.
