The Chicago Tribune (2/1, Kamin) reports that $4.5 billion of President Obama's $787 billion stimulus package is being used to make federal buildings more energy efficient. Some of this money is going to fund a modern retrofit of Cleveland's 32-story Celebrezze Federal Building. "Bringing a building up to 21st-century energy standards...can amount to something more than architectural drudgery. It might even transform a humdrum federal building into a civic icon," according to the Tribune. The article concludes, "All these efforts promise to confer enduring benefits: better energy efficiency, work environments and architecture."
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