DOE Expands Program to Help Jumpstart New Building Technologies
Focuses of program include heating and cooling systems, and sensors and controls
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — Four U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories are joining Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to expand an online crowdsourcing community for building technologies called JUMP, which helps bridge the gap between cutting-edge ideas and the marketplace.
Joining ORNL in JUMP, which was launched by Oak Ridge National Laboratory last year, are Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, and National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The crowdsourcing platform offers innovators, particularly small entrepreneurs, a place to present ideas for new energy-efficient building technologies to private and public sector leaders in research and development. JUMP, which stands for Join in the discussion, Unveil innovation, Motivate transformation and Promote technology-to-market, now has six open technology challenges.