GBA's Product Innovation Grants

Through a competitive selection process, GBA awarded $978,000 in Product Innovation Grants to 19 projects that seek to develop new or introduce revamped existing building products as green building products to the marketplace.  Recipients:

  • Address key product development challenges,
  • Focus on engineering or design challenges,
  • Show a significant degree of innovation, and/or
  • Identify a clear path to commercialization with the potential to significantly impact innovation-based companies in the region.

GBA’s Product Innovation Grants are intended to help provide the gap funding required to bring products from the research and development phase to the building product market so local specifiers can start using local green building products in local green building projects.  The intent of GBA's Product Innovation Grants is to support the final commercialization steps for tangible building products or processes that contribute to the economic, environmental, and social benefits of green buildings.  Proposals were solicited from:

  • Established Pennsylvania companies looking to develop innovative green building products and the processes to produce them;
  • Start-up Pennsylvania companies looking to enter the green building product marketplace; and
  • Pennsylvania university researchers / teams developing innovative green building products and the processes to produce them.

Reference Documents from Round #4

Product Innovation Grant Recipients
Green Building Alliance would like to extend congratulations to recipients of its Product Innovation Grants. Through four Product Innovation Grant rounds, 19 recipients received a total of $978,000 in grants. More information about these projects that seek to develop and introduce new and enhanced green building products to the marketplace is available below:

Funding for GBA's Green Building Products Initiative is due in part to the following funders:

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority
The Heinz Endowments
Richard King Mellon Foundation