A collaborative project to provide energy efficient housing to low-income homeowners in Grand Rapids garnered a top state award for the collaboration method and outcomes. The project benefits homeowners by lowering utility bills and allows students to develop solutions to real-world energy challenges.
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A collaboration between Grand Valley State University's School of Engineering and Westown Jubilee Housing that helps create energy efficient housing for low-income families won the 2009 Carter Partnership Award winner for outstanding campus-community partnerships. This campus-community partnership was recognized June 18, during the annual Governor’s Service Awards at the governor’s Lansing residence.
The Grand Valley State University School of Engineering and Westown Jubilee Housing partnership centers on energy efficient housing for low-income families living in the west side of Grand Rapids. This partnership, in existence since 2001, is a collaboration in which Westown Jubilee provides a supply of housing projects with energy management needs and challenges and the School of Engineering provides innovative solutions for those challenges.
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