Public Building Upgrades: Energy, Safety, and Air Quality
This act aims to improve public buildings like schools, hospitals, and childcare facilities by increasing their resilience, energy efficiency, and indoor air quality. It allocates significant funds for these purposes, prioritizing low-income and minority communities, potentially leading to safer and healthier learning and working environments for many citizens.
Key points
Billions of dollars for modernizing public buildings, including schools, hospitals, and daycare centers, to make them more resilient to outages and disasters.
Improved indoor air quality and energy efficiency, potentially lowering operating costs and enhancing user health.
At least 40% of funds allocated to projects in low-income and environmental justice communities, supporting areas most affected by the pandemic.
Requirement to use American-made iron, steel, and manufactured goods in projects, supporting domestic production and jobs.
Ensuring workers on these projects are paid prevailing local wages.
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