Chance for Startups to Receive $25K Grant at the Healthy Building Challenge 2023

GREENTOWN LABS and SAINT-GOBAIN with the support of the MASSACHUSETTS CLEAN ENERGY CENTER are offering the Healthy Building Challenge. This program will recognize the significant role that healthy buildings will play in improving the sustainability of our built environment. A healthy building optimizes for both environmental impact and the well-being of its occupants. To meet ambitious climate goals and improve building occupant comfort, innovation will play a critical role.

Program scope:

Building Materials, Coatings, and Envelope Systems

Building materials, coatings, and envelope systems are critical in building sustainability and occupant well-being. Effective materials, coatings, and envelope systems deliver optimal temperatures, maximum natural lighting potential, acoustic comfort, and superior indoor air quality. As mostly passive solutions, they minimize the need for energy-intensive mechanical systems to deliver wellbeing outcomes. Furthermore, innovative materials, coatings, and envelope systems can enhance a building’s total carbon impact, circularity profile, and/or environmental impact (by avoiding pollutants, etc).

Specific technologies of interest include:

• Sustainable substitutes/alternatives to incumbent building materials, including carbon-sequestering materials.
• Materials, coatings, and envelope systems that enhance wellbeing for building occupants, including optimal temperatures, maximum natural lighting potential, acoustic comfort, and superior indoor air quality.
• Exterior high-performance building cladding materials with added carbon, human health, or other environmental benefits;

1. Roofing/siding with integrated PV
2. Innovative glass solutions for windows, including active glazings and power-generating glazings

Digital Platforms, Monitoring, and Supplemental Technologies

Digital platforms, monitoring, and supplemental technologies allow for better day-to-day building sustainability and occupant well-being management. Furthermore, they help building owners and operators plan for retrofits, capital investments, and other big decisions that can deliver step changes in these outcomes. Digital tools are equally relevant in new construction, during ongoing operation, and throughout building retrofits.

Specific technologies of interest include:

• Building management and monitoring systems for lighting, air quality, airflow, acoustic protection, temperature, and daylight maximization,
• Lifecycle analysis software with a building materials or systems focus,
• Software and platforms that support building owners and operators in decarbonization transition planning, retrofit optimization, building envelope enhancement, and similar activities.

• A structured platform to explore potential partnerships with Saint-Gobain.
• Support from Saint-Gobain leaders who will be matched with your team.
• $25,000 in non-dilutive grant funding.
• Mentorship, networking opportunities, and partnership-focused programming.
• Exclusive access to the Greentown Labs, Saint-Gobain, and MassCEC networks.
• Desk space and membership within Greentown Labs for the duration of the program.

The Healthy Building Challenge seeks startups with innovative technologies at the prototype stage and beyond that advance building sustainability and wellbeing for building occupants. Our world needs the innovation that can optimize for the health of people and the health of the climate, together.

About Greentown Labs:

Greentown Labs is the largest climate tech incubator in North America. They provide the community, resources, and labs entrepreneurs need to solve the world's biggest climate and environmental challenges.

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