Government Operations committee  I can't say that we are tracking it. It is a key part of our Workplace 2.0 initiative, which is about improved quality, more productive workplaces. We're talking about greater access to natural light and improved air handling, fewer interior walls, which allows for the air to be

Government Operations committee  —a healthy building,

Government Operations committee  I'd like to think that the processes we have in place would apply. I'd just be working with a larger amount of money and I would be able to go farther down my list of priorities. Geoff mentioned the building management plan. As the real property branch, buildings are what we do.

Government Operations committee  On the simple logic, I wouldn't argue with that point. I would say, though, that from my perspective, the portfolio interventions are very important, the portfolio strategy. For example, I'm not going to put a lot of money into energy efficiency in a building when I may only have

Government Operations committee  For us, the benefit of the federal buildings initiative is that the private sector service provider is funding the initiative. To me that's the important aspect of it. The energy savings are what make the FBI so productive, from our perspective. I'm sorry, but to me the need for

Government Operations committee  I'd say that school is still out. As I said earlier, LEED has certainly established itself as a well-known brand in North America, but it is not without cost. It has a very intensive data requirement for what you have to document, what you have to provide for certification in th

Government Operations committee  I would follow that up, certainly. Part of the comment I made in my opening remarks was that in the past energy efficiencies were unique or special projects. They were in a separate category. They are embedded in what we do now. Energy efficient materials used to be very expens

Government Operations committee  I'll take it from my perspective, looking at it from a large portion of the federal inventory. First of all, I think that the federal sustainable development strategy does set our overall objective, because we do have targets that are driving us to be more efficient. Second, we

Government Operations committee  From the PWGSC point of view, I am not aware of any of those initiatives. That would be led by Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada. That would be part of their mandate. They would turn to us as an optional service provider if they so chose. To my knowledge, we're n

Government Operations committee  To my knowledge, as I said, I'm not aware of projects in which they've involved us in those areas. I don't know, Geoff, if NRCAN has been consulted on them, but we have not been a service provider to them in that respect.

Government Operations committee  I can tell you the top 10 in terms of the space we provide. I can tell you our top 10 tenants and whether they're in leased or crown-owned buildings. But with Parks Canada, for example, while I accommodate them in offices in Gatineau, they also own buildings where they have offi

Government Operations committee  Yes, if I could. It's an interesting situation, because under the budget announcements we will be reducing the amount of floor space that we occupy and, through the introduction of our Workplace 2.0 initiative, we will be increasing the density. So building energy consumption, as

Government Operations committee  I'll speak to those two specific examples. Les Terrasses de la Chaudière is a lease purchase contract signed in 1977 that gave the opportunity for the crown to purchase it in 2013. We exercised that right. There was no negotiation in terms of that. As you can imagine, the contrac

Government Operations committee  I don't want to provide a number that isn't the most accurate. That information is held in the DFRP, the Directory of Federal Real Property, maintained by Treasury Board. I think if you look on that list you'll see 39 departments identified as custodians of real property, and the

Government Operations committee  There may be. It would require canvassing each department, because PWGSC does not maintain an inventory of other departments' holdings. The DFRP is what is most commonly used.