Press
2011
Trend Spotting: 12 Greentech Startups to Watch in 2012
Project Frog’s LEED-eligible buildings are built from pre-engineered components. The company’s buildings not only use at least 25 percent less energy than traditional stick-built buildings, they also cost less than their conventional counterparts.
2011
Cleantech 100 Case Study: Project Frog
The Global Cleantech 100 showcases the most innovative advances in the sector, revealing the strides being taken to greener technology. Only four were chosen for a feature case study. Project Frog was one of these four.
2011
Pre-Fab Construction Can Quickly Deliver Eco-Friendly Buildings
Construction of a new child development center at Lincoln Elementary School in Redondo Beach, Calif., generated plenty of curiosity among students and faculty members last spring. Significant portions of the 5,000-sq.-ft. structure arrived preassembled, to be set in place and bolted together into a sleek array of steel, wall panels and glass.
2011
Game Changers at Greenbuild Toronto
Future360 reveals the green tech companies of the future. Future360 is the first syndicated, premium video series to feature cutting edge cleantech, high tech and innovation. From the smart grid to the singularity, clean energy to electric vehicles, Future360 unearths game changing stories from around the globe.
2011
GE And Others Invest $22 Million In Green Builder Project Frog
In addition to the creation of the prefab materials, Project Frog also performs advanced 3D modeling to analyze buildings in each location. This process allows customers to optimize their building kits for the greatest energy efficiency.
2011
Green Builder Project Frog Leaps Forward with $22M from GE and VCs
The funding will fuel expansion of Project Frog's sales pipeline, including an increase in the size and types of buildings in its portfolio and the number of projects the company takes on, according to Project Frog CEO Ann Hand.
2011
Green building firm Project Frog raises $22M from GE, VCs
Despite the seemingly downward short-term trend for cleantech investing, corporations and investors continue to back the green building sector. On Wednesday San Francisco–based energy-efficient building company Project Frog announced that it has raised $22 million from GE.
2011
GE Leads $22 Million Investment in Energy Efficient Building Maker Project Frog
Providing both capital and collaboration, GE led a $22 million investment round in San Francisco-based Project Frog and began construction of one of its prefabricated environmentally sustainable buildings at GE’s renowned Learning Center in Ossining, NY.
2011
Project Frog raises $22 million
The company told the Business Times earlier this year that it had grown revenue 150 percent since 2009. “Early on we promoted (Project) Frog as the green solution and now we think that we can offer so much more - that the green element is just icing.”
2011
Award-Winning Project Frog Chooses K-tect’s Insulated Wall Panels to Achieve Zero-Net-Energy
Companies using Project Frog's system will realize savings on utility bills, produce safer indoor air environments and complete construction quicker. In the long term, the environment will benefit from these eco-friendly structures, which reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
2011
Leaps and Bounds
“We are trying to free the customer from the options of slashing the quality and green options,” said Hand. “Often as building construction presses on, the first things cut are efficient lighting and higher-quality insulation and roofing that save money for decades to come.”
2011
6 Exceptional Eco Schools
It may not feel like it yet, but summer is starting to wind down - and as we look forward to the start of the school year we're showcasing six of our favorite green campuses. These six schools are all beautiful and brilliant designs that foster smarter students while leaving a much smaller impact on the planet they will inherit.
2011
Redefining Community
Project Frog’s energy-efficient Hunter’s Point Community Center in San Francisco is the first building of the Hunter’s Point Redevelopment Plan, which calls for the redevelopment of more than 700 acres of waterfront property.
2011
Park district awards contract to erect Delta science center building
The East Bay Regional Park District awarded a contract to Project Frog to build a Delta science and visitor center at the Big Break Regional Shoreline in Oakley.
2011
GE and Venture Capital Partners to Invest $63 Million in 10 Home Energy Technology Companies
General Electric and several of its venture capital partners announced today that they have invested $63 million in 10 home energy technology companies, marking the second round of funding as part of the $200 million GE ecomagination Challenge. The winners were picked from a pool of 5,000 submissions from 74,000 innovators...
2011
Project Frog modules find it easy to be green
With fresh financing and new multi-story units, Project Frog, Inc. is leaping to new heights. The San Francisco company collaborates with school systems and architects to create modular buildings that are “net zero” - they create as much energy as they consume.
2011
FORTUNE Brainstorm Green
Project Frog was one of seven innovative startups selected to compete in the cool green companies contest at this year’s FORTUNE Brainstorm Green conference. Check us out in the May 23 issue or watch a clip here.
2011
Fabricating the Future
VP of Supply Chain, Ash Notaney,discusses how Project Frog is changing the economics of construction. Check out this great KA Connect talk "Fabricating the Future".
2011
The 100 Most Creative People in Business
Fast Company puts Ann Hand, Project Frog CEO, at #32. “She is determined to revolutionize the entire $400 billion U.S. - commercial-building market.”
2011
CNNGo: Uncovering San Francisco
Project Frog’s Ann Hand takes CNN International to San Francisco’s latest icon - the Crissy Field Center.
2011
20 Spring day hikes and trips
#3. Cafe with a million-dollar view: The Beach Hut Cafe is, a light-on-the-land eatery that reuses rainwater and incorporates solar and wind power and salveged redwood...
2011
In Mayoral Race, Yee Makes Name for Himself as a Loner and a Workhorse
State Senator Leland Yee, left, a much-talked-about mayoral candidate, recently toured the Project Frog community facility at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard with the facility's founder, Mark Miller.
2011
Cutting-Edge, Green Modular Classrooms
More and more, school districts are realizing the benefits of sustainable building and are requesting that their classrooms be designed to greener standards. As a result, the commercial modular construction industry is taking notice and using green materials, energy efficient designs and HVAC units to accommodate the growing demand for environmentally friendly schools.
2011
Project Frog Receives Fourth DSA PC Approval
Accelerating the Design and Permitting Process For All California Schools is Now Achievable Through the Use of DSA Pre-Checked Frog 2.2 – The Most Innovative and Energy Efficient Building Kit Available.