Downtown Salt Lake City courthouse to become a national model for how to give a historic building a second century.
The Frank E. Moss U.S. Courthouse, first completed in 1905, is getting a makeover that is intended to be an example for the nation of how a historic building can find a climate-friendly second century. The scaffolding-shrouded Frank E. Moss U.S. Courthouse in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, March 12, 2024.
Anderson noted that bankruptcy court proceedings are the most common way that individual Americans interact with the federal court system, and more than half a million Utahns have sought relief in bankruptcy court since the Erin Holcombe, GSA project manager and an architect, said the concrete is produced through a low-carbon process and comes from a Utah concrete supplier,
Similarly, low-carbon steel is used throughout the building. Holcombe said that required supplies from all over the country, including Washington and Wisconsin. Even the carpeting will be net-zero emissions.