Deadlines Coming Soon, Apply Now for Building Technologies Office Funding Opportunities

The Building Technologies Office currently has three open funding opportunities with deadlines quickly approaching, apply now!

Buildings Energy Efficiency Frontiers & Innovation Technologies (BENEFIT) 2018 will fund up to $19.5 million for approximately 15-25 cost-shared projects focused on early-stage R&D to enable the development of novel technologies that can improve efficiency, reduce the energy costs of the nation’s buildings, and facilitate interaction with the electricity grid.

• Concept papers for BENEFIT 2018 are due June 8, 2018 and full applications due August 23, 2018

Building America Industry Partnerships and Research Priorities for High Performance Housing Innovation – 2018 (Building America) will provide funding up to $11.5 million to select additional building science project teams for the Building America Program to study residential building performance and integrated building systems approaches to achieving optimal home energy performance.

• Full applications for Building America are due June 11, 2018

Solid-State Lighting (SSL) Research, will fund up to $15 million for approximately 10-15 cost-shared projects to conduct early-stage, innovative research to drive further breakthroughs in solid-state lighting technology.

• Full applications for SSL are due June 18, 2018

For more information on these funding opportunities, visit the EERE Funding Opportunity Exchange website.