Nina Albert

GSA accelerates plans to offload federal buildings it no longer needs

“GSA and our agency partners will continue to assess space needs and accelerate the disposition of federal buildings that are underperforming, underused,…

Facilities/Construction

Nina Albert, the commissioner of the Public Buildings Service at GSA, speaks during the launch of the Workplace Innovation Lab.
(Photo courtesy of GSA).

GSA official who reshaped federal office space in pandemic era leaving government

People

Library of Congress

GSA: ‘Right-sizing’ federal office space requires more funding on deferred upgrades

Facilities/Construction

Workplace Reimagined 2023: GSA’s Nina Albert, Chuck Hardy, Ryan Doerfler on helping agencies rethink federal office space

Workforce

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

Leasing/Property Management

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Federal ‘experiment’ to fast-track sale of underutilized property falling behind on goals

Facilities/Construction

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

Facilities/Construction

GSA targets underutilized property as feds telework, but agencies not giving up office space

Facilities/Construction

GSA chief architect Chuck Hardy (left) demonstrates the new smart board where users can to make reservations to use specific space or test out the other technologies that support the new Workplace Innovation Lab at the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C(Photo courtesy GSA)

Test out what your office space of the future could look like at GSA’s new innovation lab

Facilities/Construction

Workplace Reimagined: GSA leaders envision the future of federal workspaces

Federal Insights

OMB sets deadline for agencies to deliver future office space plans

Workforce

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2020, file photo the General Services Administration building is seen, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, in Washington. An agency little known outside Washington, the General Services Administration, has held off on recognizing President-elect Joe Biden as the president-elect, denying him access to the money, offices and machinery routinely afforded to the incoming team. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

GSA wants to cast wider net for federal building architects

Some of the world’s top architects have designed federal buildings and now, GSA has inked a memorandum of understanding with the National Organization…

Facilities/Construction

The General Services Administration (GSA) building is seen, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, in Washington. General Service Administrator Emily Murphy, the head of the obscure federal government agency that is holding up Joe Biden's presidential transition, appeared to know she might be facing a messy situation after the votes came in. Prior to Nov. 3, Emily Murphy, the head of the General Services Administration, held a Zoom call with Dave Barram, 77, a man who was in her shoes 20 years earlier during the contested 2000 election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. Barram said he advised her to

GSA sets goals to shrink federal office space post-COVID, but needs to address maintenance backlog

The General Services Administration sees a unique opportunity to reduce the federal government’s office footprint over the coming years, as agencies…

Facilities/Construction

GSA awards coworking space contract in bid to rethink federal office space

Facilities/Construction

The contract for coworking space builds on what GSA and Public Buildings Service officials have already described as a long-term rethinking of federal office space.