Leasing/Property Management

Individual desks that can be moved to create collaboration spaces in GSA’s new Workplace Innovation Lab at the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C. (Photo courtesy GSA)

GSA gets a refreshed set of recommendations for dealing with real property

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently reiterated a list of recommendations to the General Services Agency (GSA) on managing federal real…

How Homeland Security Department’s Science and Technology Directorate is dealing with its telework-induced high-vacancy offices

Management

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Close up of hands typing on laptop. Night work concept.

OMB holding agencies ‘accountable’ for 50% in-office presence

Workforce

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Exclusive

Survey: Back in the office, feds feel mixed on office space functionality

Workforce

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Construction work is shown July 22, 2022, in the 1600 block of the cantonment area at Fort McCoy, Wis., on a second new transient training troops barracks project on the post.

Facing billions in facility backlogs, DoD looks to new pilot for ‘livable communities’

Defense News

Will that bridge collapse in Maryland affect federal supply chains?

Management

A big uptick in federal agencies’ deferred facility maintenance backlogs

Management

New FBI headquarters? Don’t hold your breath

Tom Temin Commentary

GPO vacates regional offices, embraces 100% telework for all eligible employees

Workforce

Empty federal offices are bad for the economy

Agency Oversight

With most agency headquarters at 25% capacity, ‘hard decisions’ coming for federal office holdings

Leasing/Property Management

GSA’s ‘2023 lighthouse season’ features new lighthouses for sale

Over 150 lighthouses have been sold or transferred out of federal ownership since the implementation of the General Services Administration’s National…

Leasing/Property Management

Rae Oliver Davis, inspector general at the Department of Housing and Urban Development

HUD’s inspector general takes on two of the worst public housing problems

The Office of Inspector General at Housing and Urban Development is boosting efforts to end sexual abuse and unsanitary conditions in HUD-backed housing.

Reorganization

Agencies coming around to sharing office space as future plans come into focus

Facilities/Construction

Nina Albert, the commissioner of the Public Building Service at GSA, said with approximately 50% of GSA’s lease portfolio expiring in the next five years, agencies have some urgency to figure out their office space plans for the future.