SAVE Award 2011 Ideas

Government agencies are keep GSA afloat by paying more for their leases through GSA. In FY10 over 1/2 of the Federal Building Fund revenues came from 5 top federal agencies.(DOJ $1.6B, DHS $1.6B, FJ $1.1B, DOT $0.8B, and SSA $0.7B) GSA had a net revenue of $548M in FY10. Even when when an agency gets a lease on the economy, they go through GSA and pay a percentage of overhead to keep GSA afloat. If that same agency... more »

Currently the populations of many federal buildings are made up of several agencies, not a single agency. Each of these individual agencies has a need to house IT equipment of some kind, anything from a small server for an office of 5 to large agency wide data centers could be required in any given federal building. Each agency is required to rent office space to house this IT equipment, supplemental cooling is often... more »

I suggest we close all Federal Buildings possible on either Friday of Monday to significantly reduce government energy use and it's Green House Gas footprint. We would offer options to employees to earn their 40 hours of pay using 4 ten hour days or any combination workday hours and mobile work that achieves a 40 hour work week.