The Refinishing Touch Blog

A few weeks ago, the General Services Administration (GSA) announced plans for the increased budget following President Obama's Reinvestment and Recovery Act.

As the government agency responsible for one quarter of the US government's procurement dollars, the GSA plays a key role in the management of federal assets and by relation in the deployment of energy efficiency and green initiatives. The GSA's regulation of federal assets includes an estimated 8,600 government buildings.

The Recovery Act has allocated $5.55 billion for building projects as a part of the legislation and the GSA has stated its position "to connect agencies with cost effective, high-quality and environmentally friendly commercial products and services."

The Refinishing Touch has had a long standing relationship with the United States Government – our team has the experience that comes with the completion of sustainability and refinishing initiatives for dozens of government institutions, and hundreds of thousands of individual furniture assets.

In a time when consumers and businesses are considering asset lifetime, it is encouraging and important to see the government lead by example. We here at TRT pride ourselves in the cost efficient, environmentally friendly solution that we have to offer and look forward to many more years of collaboration in achieving the goals that President Obama's administration has set for a greater, greener nation.

Labels: government, GSA, Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

As a company we've always been involved in organizations and associations that drive change and communicate new processes. In line with this our Founder and President, Mario Insenga, has served as a Board member for the General Services Administration (GSA) Quality Partnership Council, a role which he has held for two years.

This week Mario travelled up to Capitol Hill in his capacity as acting chair so he could attend and MC the council's March meeting. The meeting sees GSA departments come together to discuss and collaborate on a range of activities from green initiatives to the Trade Agreements Act. He's come back to Georgia encouraged and motivated by the meetings, ideas and enthusiasm of everyone involved.

Mario also returned with a new award to add to The Refinishing Touch's collection: as on Wednesday, the GSA awarded him with an 'Outstanding Service Award' in recognition of his contribution.

We are thrilled with Mario's recognition by the GSA, (which is the second GSA award we've won!) and proud that The Refinishing Touch is reminding Washington of our core message: reduce, reuse and recycle.

Labels: government, GSA, Recycle, Reduce, Reuse