Three California cities have been awarded $1 million each to attain carbon neutrality by 2030. Under the Cool City Challenge, the cities of Los Angeles, Irvine and Petaluma won money and consulting support to execute their...
The top 3 homes of this year's competition: 1. Team Austria: Vienna University of Technology - LISI Home 2. Team Las Vegas: University of Nevada Las Vegas - DesertSol Home 3. Team Czech Republic: Czech Technical University...
DRUMROLL PLEASE…..... Team Austria was just announced the overall winner of the 2013 Solar Decathlon for their beautiful LISI House! The team's win comes as no surprise as they were singled out as a competition frontrunner...
A modern home kitted out with all of the latest technology, including a vast solar array that provides all of its power, the PEAK House nonetheless maintains the comforting ambience of a rustic cabin in the mountains...
The UNC Charlotte team is calling their UrbanEden "a tree planted in the forest of the city." The Solar Decathlon home is designed for Charlotte’s temperate climate and increasingly urban lifestyle and blurs the line between...
The Delta T-90 design is all about providing a sustainable dwelling that provides maximum interior comfort for residents despite extreme temperatures on the exterior, and all at an affordable cost...
Like all of the Solar Decathlon homes, the Radiant House takes its energy from the ubiquitous California sun vis–à–vis a 7.14kW solar array attached to an innovative rooftop racking system. That being said - this compact...
This is the Missouri Team’s fifth Solar Decathlon competition. In fact, they are the only team worldwide to have been accepted into five of the six U.S. Department of Energy intercollegiate architecture and solar energy...
The Texas student team created ADAPT with the belief that a home is not just a location or state of mind but a place where the heart is. The house was designed with desert living in mind and the students drew inspiration...
Students at Stanford University have a vision for a completely revamped home construction system. Out with the old stick-frame traditional techniques and one-off homes that leak and don't encourage sustainable living. The...
Students from Team ASUNM are sensitive to a special kind of urban sprawl endemic to desert cities such as Phoenix and Albuquerque. So when they designed their SHADE House (Solar Homes Adapting for Desert Equilibrium) for...
As we move into the first official week of the Solar Decathlon 2013, the judges are beginning to make their rounds of the 19 beautiful ultra-efficient solar homes...
The 1,300 square foot home is a simple, low-slung L-shaped construction made up of two modules—a 'dry module' that hosts all of the home's living areas and a 'wet module' containing all of Ecohabit's plumbing and mechanical...
The 1,300 square foot home is a simple, low-slung L-shaped construction made up of two modules—a 'dry module' that hosts all of the home's living areas and a 'wet module' containing all of Ecohabit's plumbing and mechanical...
The Solar Decathlon 2013 competition officially kicked off 3 October, 2013; to celebrate the ribbon cutting ceremony, groups of officials and decathletes gathered to take a much deserved break from all the hard work they've...
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