GSA Public Buildings Service · 2024
Melvin Price Federal Building parking lot improvements
Parking lot repairs with low-embodied-carbon asphalt and concrete at a 1909 federal courthouse in East St. Louis, funded by the Inflation Reduction Act.
- Client
- GSA Public Buildings Service, Region 5
- Facility
- Melvin Price Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse
- Award
- $880,939
- Awarded
- September 27, 2024
- Construction
- Spring – fall 2025 (scheduled)
- Location
- East St. Louis, Illinois
Project overview
The Melvin Price Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse is a Beaux-Arts building completed in 1909, designed under Supervising Architect James Knox Taylor and originally East St. Louis's main post office. It houses the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
In September 2024, GSA's Great Lakes Region awarded SIS $880,939 for parking lot repairs using low-embodied-carbon asphalt and concrete, part of GSA's sustainable investments funded by the Inflation Reduction Act. GSA scheduled the work to begin in spring 2025 and finish by fall 2025.
Scope of work
- Parking lot pavement repairs
- Low-embodied-carbon asphalt paving
- Low-embodied-carbon concrete
- Material documentation for federal low-carbon requirements
- Phased work around an operating federal courthouse
- Site restoration
Challenges and how we solved them
Working at an active federal courthouse
Court staff, visitors and security operations rely on the site every day, so paving work is phased to keep access and parking available.
Meeting low-embodied-carbon material requirements
Asphalt and concrete had to meet GSA's low-embodied-carbon criteria, with supplier documentation for each material.
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What this project shows
- GSA construction at an active, historic federal courthouse
- Low-embodied-carbon asphalt and concrete under federal Buy Clean goals
- Site work phased around building operations and security
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