Do your building projects require products covered under Buy American or ARRA? We can help.
In our daily chats with the more than 170 manufacturers whose products we sell on alpscontrols.com, we've been learning more and more lately about the HVAC, lighting control and building automation products that fall within the requirements of the “Buy American” clause of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).
At its basics, this clause states that construction projects may be funded through ARRA if “all of the iron, steel, and manufactured goods used in the project are produced in the United States”. In our business, there are some subtleties at work with regard to products manufactured in the United States with components from other countries, but the simple fact is that we sell a great big boatload of products that fall under these requirements.
From what our customers are telling us, a number of construction projects and bids are being awarded with Buy American in mind, which makes identifying the products that fall within its requirements more important than ever. We've reached out to our manufacturers to ask them to help us out on this, and here’s a list of those who have provided us with documentation that you can download here:
Siemens
And you should keep an eye on this list - we'll be adding more of our manufacturers to it as they continue to send them to us!