The brand-new federal courthouse in Richmond is already set for an upgrade.
The General Services Administration has posted a request for proposals to install a 200-kilowatt photovoltaic solar array on the roof of the Spottswood W. Robinson and Robert R. Merhige Jr. U.S. Courthouse.
The estimated contract is worth between $1 million and $5 million and is funded by a $5.5 billion slice of recovery money for converting hundreds of federal facilities into “high-performance green buildings.”
So far there are eight interested vendors, two from Virginia: Breakell Inc. of Roanoke and Legatus6 LLC of Fairfax.
The deadline for proposals is Oct. 2 at 2:30 p.m.
You can read the notice here.
Excellent. What about other downtown buildings?
Only the government would be capable of constructing a brand new building that immediately needs “upgrading” to incorporate green building techniques, which have been known and implemented by private builders for quite some time.