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.
Showing 313-336 of 1,045 grants
Sustainable Community Real Estate Subsidy (DUMAVA)
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Pays owners of Dutch schools, care homes and other community buildings to cut their energy use.
Tees Valley Export Fund
🇬🇧TVCA · United Kingdom
Supports Tees Valley firms entering export markets through the Tees Valley Export Fund.
Testing and demonstrating innovative solutions to improve resilience to extreme heat, including addressing health impacts
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds consortia to test and demonstrate extreme-heat resilience measures for buildings, public spaces and emergency services in at least three regional or local authorities.
Towards an effective implementation of key legislation in the field of sustainable energy
European Commission · European Union
Covers up to 95% of costs for projects that give Member State public administrations tools, guidance and shared practice to implement EU energy-efficiency or building-performance law.
Towards autonomous robot collectives delivering collaborative tasks in dynamic unstructured construction environments
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research teams building multi-robot systems that collaboratively assemble structures on unstructured construction sites.
Towards the water infrastructures of the future
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds teams building smart sensors, AI, digital twins and cyber-defence tools that make drinking-water and wastewater infrastructure more resilient.
UNBUILT 2026 Award
Buildner Competitions · Global / Multinational
Awards a €100,000 prize fund for the best unbuilt architecture, interior and landscape designs.
Underground Thermal Energy Storage in dense urban areas
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds demonstrators of underground thermal energy storage systems that cut the cost of heat storage in dense European cities.
Urban Green
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds up to €200K, 100% covered, for satellite-based urban green-space services.
Viable Cities: Energy-Positive Districts for Climate-Neutral Cities
🇸🇪Energimyndigheten (Swedish Ene · Sweden
Funds Swedish consortia developing energy-positive city districts through Viable Cities grants for innovation and demonstration projects.
Vitality Fund
🇺🇸DMPED · United States
Offers research teams and institutions for Vitality Fund in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and built environment.
VVISDP — Rural Community Networks, City of uMhlathuze
🇿🇦TIA · South Africa
Supports community broadband and wireless networks in rural South African municipalities through technology validation.
Design for an Energy-Efficient Everyday Life Call
🇸🇪Energimyndigheten (Swedish Ene · Sweden
Funds Swedish companies, design agencies, universities and institutes building energy- and resource-efficient products, services and behaviors through the Swedish Energy Agency's design and behavioral-science grants.
Impact Innovation: Geographic Transition Labs – Innovation Projects
🇸🇪Energimyndigheten (Swedish Ene · Sweden
Funds Swedish businesses, universities, research institutes, public bodies, and civil-society groups running innovation projects in ShiftSweden's geographic transition labs.
Konza Smart Access Control Innovation Challenge
🇮🇱KoTDA · Kenya
Funds Israeli-led startups building smart access-control solutions through a Konza challenge prize.
NJ CSIT Clean Tech Seed Grant
🇺🇸NJ CSIT · United States
Funds New Jersey clean-tech startups developing early-stage technologies through CSIT seed grants.
NJ CSIT Pilot Clean Tech Demonstration Grant
🇺🇸NJ CSIT · United States
Funds New Jersey clean-tech companies demonstrating technologies through CSIT pilot grants.
Termo: Heating and Cooling in the Future Energy System
🇸🇪Energimyndigheten (Swedish Ene · Sweden
Funds companies, universities and research bodies working on heating and cooling in the energy system through a Swedish Energy Agency Termo call.
Bando Valore per il Territorio
🇮🇹CDP · Italy
Funds university-led research in Italy on regional innovation and territorial development.
Nysnø Direct Equity Investments
🇳🇴Nysnø · Norway
Invests minority equity in Norwegian climate-tech companies alongside private investors who retain control.
BIG Idea Competition
🇺🇸BIG Idea SD · United States
Pays high school students in South Dakota, North Dakota and Minnesota cash prizes and scholarships for their best business idea.
IPARJOG — IP Protection Support
🇭🇺NKFIH · Hungary
Backs intellectual property protection activities including patent filing and trademark registration across Hungary.
Y Combinator Accelerator Program
🇺🇸YC · United States
Runs Y Combinator Accelerator for early-stage startups with a three-month batch, investment, and mentoring support.
NSF Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR/STTR)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Gives U.S. small businesses non-dilutive R&D funding for high-risk, high-impact deep-tech across nearly every technical field, from a Phase I award through a larger Phase II award.