Facilities/Construction

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Safeguarding critical infrastructure: Addressing threats to the water sector

Despite being designated as critical infrastructure, many of the nation’s public water and wastewater facilities are considered antiquated and outdated.

Commentary

Derace Lauderdale

Federal buildings board: Agencies can save billions by shedding ‘vastly underutilized’ office space

Facilities/Construction

AP Photo/Taimy Alvarez

Homeland Security returns money to a state hosting a spiffy new lab

Facilities/Construction

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GSA says more funds needed to offload unneeded federal office space

Facilities/Construction

Vigilance is job one of the Office for Bombing Prevention

Facilities/Construction

First Look

More House appropriators target federal telework, office space

Congress

GSA

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

Leasing/Property Management

Policy riders to watch as House appropriators mark up 2025 spending bills

Budget

Democrats warn layoffs ahead as House GOP proposes agency spending cuts

Budget

House appropriators reject GSA’s $3.5B plan for new FBI headquarters

Facilities/Construction

That office-building boiler will soon be scrap metal

Facilities/Construction

USPS hits pause on some modernization plans

The Postal Service will hold off until January 2025 on its decision to move mail processing to larger regional hubs.

Federal Newscast

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

Federal workplaces aren’t what they used to be, not with a third or half of employees teleworking at least some part of the week.

Management

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Better federal building upkeep, right-sizing office space key to governmentwide savings, GAO says

Facilities/Construction

The Government Accountability Office is telling Congress that agencies could save millions of dollars, by making better use of federal buildings.