The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) is essentially the federal government’s landlord, with 360 million square feet of buildings under management, and an appropriately staggering energy bill. That’s made it the key federal organisation for building energy efficiency technology across the nation. GSA is implementing a smart building strategy and working aggressively to modernise existing buildings and establish new standards for design and construction in order to achieve department and administration goals of energy efficiency and sustainability while still providing superior workplaces for federal customer agencies at good economies to the American taxpayer. A newly established GSA department ‘Green Proving Ground’ leverages GSA’s vast real-estate portfolio to transparently evaluate emerging green technologies such as energy management, lighting and on-site energy generation. The proving ground examines technologies in partnership with national laboratories and makes recommendations on whether to “broadly deploy, target deploy or not to deploy,” across government, according to GSA Chief Greening Officer Eleni Reed. […]