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OVERVIEW

Tower Labs is a non-profit organization founded by Tridel and MaRS to accelerate the adoption of green building products and services and to help advance innovative start-up companies targeting customers in the real estate industry. We are based at the MaRS Discovery District in downtown Toronto, Canada.

What kinds of green building innovations does Tower Labs help to facilitate?
We are pleased to consider any product, equipment component, service or technology that has potential to reduce the lifecycle environmental footprint of a building or highrise construction project. We have worked with clean web and smart home products, HVAC systems, green materials, and renewable energy.
What kinds of companies does Tower Labs work with?
We will work with start-ups or multi-national corporations; OEMs and component developers – up and down the supply chain. Our main criteria is a willingness to make at least an in-kind contribution to the implementation of a demonstration project, and strong evidence of a product that will have a beneficial impact on the environmental performance of buildings and/or their occupants.
Our company has a product we would like to prove to the market. How do we engage Tower Labs?
Tower Labs is a non-profit organization, but we offer multiple approaches to finance a demonstration:

a) through a demonstration project loan (see details);
b) by paying project management fees;
c) collaborative fundraising;
d) revenue sharing on future sales.



For more information, please send us a detailed e-mail at info@towerlabs.org

TESTIMONIALS

  • "Just as Tridel is committed to leading the highrise condominium industry in responsible and high quality construction, we are also committed to advancing the cause of green building innovation within our industry. With Tower Labs as our innovation partner, we are always prepared to implement the next generation green building products and technologies as soon as they are ready. This not only helps us to stay ahead, but it also helps innovations – and innovators - get an important foothold in our industry."
    Leo DelZotto,
    President, Tridel Corp.
  • "Innovation demonstration projects, like the off-grid street lamps at the Tridel-Hines sales centre on the Waterfront, support our mandate to encourage market transformation and help position the city as a world leader in creating sustainable communities. It's great to be able to work with an innovation enabler like Tower Labs @MaRS to help make these projects happen with our real estate partners."
    John Campbell,
    President & CEO, Waterfront Toronto.
  • “Tower Labs was instrumental to the success of dPoint in the Toronto high-rise residential market. One of the toughest things as an earlier stage technology company is getting your first customers. Tower Labs has been a great partner in evaluating dPoint Energy Recovery Ventilation exchangers in condominiums, giving us the credibility and helping us get to the point where we are now being installed in multiple thousands of condos across the GTA with some of Canada's top real estate developers. I highly recommend Jamie and Subhi as great collaborators for start-up building product technology companies”
    James Dean,
    Founder and CEO, dPoint Technologies.
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