FailSafe of Amherst, NY received a $100,000 grant to market a technology combining UV light and HEPA filtration for the area surrounding infectious patients. This technology improves the safety of surrounding personnel in medical and other building environments. FailSafe currently has FDA approval for this technology.

NY State Assemblyman William Magnarelli, Walt Rosen, Robert Baier, and Lee Davis during the CAP II award ceremony.

Taitem Engineering of Ithaca, NY received a $50,000 grant to develop and license a version of a Department of Energy model that simulates both energy consumption and IEQ. The software will include a graphical interface to broaden its usability. Assemblyman William Magnarelli, Bill Chadwick, Ian Shapiro of Taitem Engineering along with Lee Davis, Executive Director of the NYIEQ Center at the 2002 CAP award ceremony. Galson Laboratories of East Syracuse also received $50,000 for the licensing of DNA-based sequencing technology for the rapid detection of mold from the Environmental Technology Commercialization Center (ETC2), a U.S. EPA technology transfer center managed by Battelle.

Battelle's Joe Jasper, U.S. Congressman Jim Walsh and Galson Laboratory's President Joe Unangst at the 2002 CAP award ceremony.

Proposal Evaluation:

Starting with twenty proposals, an independent selection committee of highly qualified individuals from a number of different fields was established by NYIEQ to meet and determine the merit of each submission. This year's selection panel included:

• Dirk Sonneborn, Managing Partner, Exponential Business Development Company

• Jerry Groff, Entrepeneur, Life Member and Director, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc. (ASHRAE)

• Robert Bland, Director, Environmental Compliance Office, Cornell University

• Judson Gostin, CEO, Sensis Corporation

• Chris Horacek, Associate Counsel - Intellectual Property, WelchAllyn