Built Environment grants
Explore grants for built environment companies. This directory covers funding for construction innovation, low-carbon building materials, energy-efficient retrofits, smart infrastructure and urban technology, from housing and infrastructure agencies, climate programs and industry-led challenges.
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Eurogia2030 - Call 31
🇦🇹EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Funds international low-carbon energy R&D consortia via national agencies.
LIIP
🇺🇸SD GOED · United States
Funds infrastructure projects for South Dakota political subdivisions and tribal entities linked to local economic growth.
Building Resilient Communities Grant
🇺🇸WBC · United States
Backs Wyoming municipalities and tribal governments with infrastructure support for publicly owned water, transportation, and airport projects.
MICROHOME 2026
Buildner Competitions · Global / Multinational
Pays up to €30,000 to architects and creatives designing a compact 25 sqm micro-home.
Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) in Schools Grant Scheme
🇬🇧DfE · United Kingdom
Funding SuDS design and installation to reduce surface water flood risk at schools.
Horizon Disaster Resilience: Multi-Hazard Risk Forecasting
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4M projects building one forecasting system out of separate hazard models, tested with national disaster-response authorities.
EIT Urban Mobility Financial Support to Startups
🇪🇺EIT Urban Mobility · European Union
Funds startups and industry teams building mobility, transport, and climate technologies through urban innovation support.
Energy-Efficient Buildings for a Sustainable Energy System
🇸🇪Energimyndigheten (Swedish Ene · Sweden
Funds Swedish companies, public bodies, universities and research institutes developing energy-efficient building solutions through Swedish Energy Agency research and innovation grants.
BIRD General Program
🇺🇸BIRD Foundation · United States
Supports United States and Israel partners to jointly commercialize hi-tech innovation, including cybersecurity, life sciences, and manufacturing.
District Heating Network Investment Subsidy (WIS)
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Pays heat companies and cooperatives up to half the cost of a new gas-free district heat network.
Vancouver Tall Challenge
Buildner Competitions · Global / Multinational
Awards $15,000 CAD to designers reimagining tall buildings for downtown Vancouver.
Horizon Bauhaus: Vacant Space Reuse
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4.5M projects that turn empty buildings and unused land into spaces neighbourhoods need, tested with communities in three countries.
Horizon NEB: Beautiful, Low-Carbon Thermal Comfort
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds three €4M projects that cut buildings’ need for air conditioning with vernacular, nature-based, or bioclimatic design, tested in two climate zones.
Horizon NEB: Capital Markets for Neighbourhoods
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research consortia designing and testing new routes for private capital into New European Bauhaus-aligned neighbourhood renewal projects across the EU.
Horizon NEB: Coordinated Homelessness Infrastructure
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds teams coordinating neighbourhood health, education and jobs services to fix chronic homelessness, piloted in five neighbourhoods in different countries.
Horizon NEB: Housing-led Homelessness Solutions
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €6.3M projects to test co-created, climate-ready homes and services across urban, peri-urban and rural neighbourhoods.
Horizon NEB: Neighbourhood Health & Belonging
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research linking how people experience neighbourhoods with health, belonging and greener, more resilient local planning.
Horizon NEB: Sustainable Building Maintenance & Repair
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €5M consortium projects that build predictive maintenance tools and repair methods for existing buildings, proven on three real sites across Europe.
Horizon NEB: Vertical Space for Housing & Green Space
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds three €5M demonstrators that turn a building’s unused roof, wall or the air above a street into new homes or public greenery nearby.
Innovative approaches for the spatial design of neighbourhoods
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds teams that design and demonstrate new participatory methods for planning neighbourhood public spaces in at least three different countries.
New European Bauhaus Facility 2026 Call
CINEA · European Union
Funds organisations researching greener, more inclusive and circular neighbourhoods through a Horizon Europe grant call.
Air Quality in Indoor Public Spaces, Workplace Settings and Transport Microenvironments
🇬🇧NIHR · United Kingdom
Funds UK research on health impacts of indoor and transport air-quality interventions.
DEI+ Energy and Climate Innovation Demonstration
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Funds carbon reduction demonstration pilots in Dutch energy sectors to advance climate and technology transitions.
Tiny House 2026
Volume Zero · India
Awards $2,500 for the best Tiny House design in an open international competition.