New York City invests in urban green tech

The NYC Urban Innovation Center is a partnership between the City, universities, and businesses that aims to identify effective green building technologies. A location has not yet been chosen, but Columbia University, the City University of New York, and Polytechnic Institute of New York University will be involved.

It will be funded by $250,000 from the New York City Economic Development Corp and the three universities will provide money in kind. The group is also seeking funding through memberships.

IBM will be involved in the research by providing computing technology to analyze building performance and evaluate different building products, said IBM energy and environment executive ...

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