PA’s Green Building Alliance Awards Grants

Posted on July 8, 2008
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$140,000 in Product Innovation Grants were awarded yesterday to three recipients by Western Pennsylvania nonprofit organization, the Green Building Alliance. The grants will fund projects that create marketable green building products by Energy Wall, LLC & Penn State University, Drexel University, and Temple University.

Energy Wall & Penn State’s project is for “the commercialization of an innovative ventilation air energy recovery unit that utilizes a patent-pending membrane technology to allow water vapor molecules to pass freely while blocking other air molecules and particles”.

Drexel’s winning project is for a modular, reconfigurable, and sustainable residential floor & wall system.

Temple’s “ReD” project, a responsive daylighting panel integrating phase change material also received funding.

It’s not too late to receive grant funding if your Pennsylvania-based company or university research team is developing or improving an existing green building technology. Final proposals are due September 12, 2008 for the third round of Product Innovation Grants.

The Product Innovation Grants are a component of GBA’s Green Building Products Initiative economic development program. According to an article at the Sun Herald, “The green building product market is estimated to be worth $30 to $40 billion annually by 2010″.