High-Tech Fans, HVACs and Heat Pumps Are The Future of Federal Buildings
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The General Services Administration and the Energy Department issued a joint RFI for emerging building technology.
If you know how to make buildings lower cost and energy efficient, the federal government wants to hear from you.
The General Services Administration and the Energy Department are looking for technology that can be used to improve federal office buildings, which could include energy-related analytics, heat pumps, fans and blowers, "alternatives to vapor compressor HVAC," and systems that can conserve and reuse water.
Energy analytics could include technology that helps buildings monitor and manage energy control systems, solutions that can make heat pumps more efficient in cold climates, or fans that can perform better than current ones, and products that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, among others.
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The two groups issued a joint request for information about such "emerging building technology" that would need to "improve economic and environmental performance in federal and commercial buildings.”
Successful technology could obtain further funding from GSA's Green Proving Ground program, which pilots out new building technology. So far nine proposals from that effort have actually been deployed in 200 government sites, according to GSA. It could also eventually be supported by DOE's High Impact Technology Catalyst program, which does its own building technology demonstrations.
The RFI is open to manufacturers and industry groups until Nov. 18.