I’m very excited to announce that the Stanford University Lotus Living Lab Researchers were just awarded $75,000 by the US Environmental Protection Agency.

This past year, Stanford University’s Lotus Living Laboratory has been an opportunity for student and faculty researchers to collaboratively develop green building technology, interdisciplinary design processes, and building metering and feedback systems. Students presented the results of this effort on May 9-10 on the Mall in Washington DC. They competed with 40 other teams nationwide that had also received $10,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency for Phase I of the People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) Student Design Competition.

The Stanford group was among the six teams that won $75,000 to continue their research. The students also won the Green Globes award from the Green Building Initiative for “being the entry that showed the most potential for commercialization/expansion into the market place,” which also included a $1,000 cash prize. In particular, the judges were impressed by the goals of the project which included building a green dorm at Stanford and developing a residential education program that networks with other universities to research sustainable pathways for resource use and building development.

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