Sustainability

We develop, advocate for, educate on, and disseminate high standards of sustainable performance and, through an integrative process, continue to raise the quality of design.

Through our dedication to design excellence, research, education, creative collaboration, and operational excellence, our design teams use the latest technologies and apply sustainable building principles and practices to learn from our projects and strive to reach greater heights of performance.

We continue to conserve energy and water, utilize ecological systems, and enhance the natural environment while offering safe and healthy buildings for federal workers.

GSA AIA COTE Top Ten Winners

The American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment Top Ten is the industry's best-known award program for sustainable design excellence. Each year, ten innovative projects earn the prize for setting the standard in design and sustainability. GSA is the only owner to have won 9 AIA COTE Top Ten awards.

• U.S. Land Port of Entry, Columbus, NM (2020) 
• U.S. Courthouse Los Angeles (2018)
• Edith Green Wendell Wyatt Federal Building (2016) 
• Federal Center South Building 1202 (2015)
• Edith Green Wendell Wyatt Federal Building (2014)
• U.S. Land Port of Entry Warroad, MN (2014)
• Wayne Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouses (2014)
• Federal Center South Bldg 1202 (2013)
• Wayne L. Morse U.S. Courthouse (2007)

For more information on sustainability in design and construction, contact Lance Davis (lance.davis@gsa.gov)