WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced today the selection of six architect/engineer (A/E) design teams for interviews to provide design services for the modernization of the Lafayette Building, located at 811 Vermont Ave. NW, in Washington, DC. It is situated north of Lafayette Square between H and I streets.

The 500,000–s.f. 12 story steel framed and limestone clad building was completed in 1940. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building is currently occupied by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Export-Import Bank. Both agencies will remain as tenants once the modernization is complete.

Working with the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Export-Import Bank, GSA is using the Design Excellence procurement process. In the first stage, interested design firms submitted examples of their work and identified the lead designers with their portfolios. From those submissions, an A/E selection panel identified six firms to move onto the stage-two interview phase. The selected design firms and their lead designers will now be invited to assemble complete A/E teams. From those interviews the GSA A/E selection panel will select one firm. The six A/E design firms selected to be interviewed in Stage Two are:

1. Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Planners with Joseph R. Loring & Associates
2. DMJM with Flack + Kurtz Inc.
3. Holabird & Root with Wiley & Wilson
4. Shalom Baranes with Vanderweil Engineers
5. VOA Associates, Inc. with GHT Limited Consulting Engineers
6. Westlake Reed Leskosky with Gensler

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