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January 21st, 2012 | 
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The Solar Decathlon is a competition that challenges teams from around the world to design, build, and operate solar-powered houses that are affordable, highly energy efficient, attractive, and easy to live in. Team Canada’s “TRTL” house creates a cohesion of traditional concepts mixed with new technology.
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The Solar Decathlon is a competition that challenges collegiate teams from around the world to design, build, and operate solar-powered houses that are affordable, highly energy efficient, attractive, and easy to live in. Team China delivers a free flowing space in a non-traditional form.
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To spur growth of the solar industry and support education, Dow Corning was a sustaining sponsor of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011, in Washington, D.C.
The Solar Decathlon is an award-winning program that challenges 20 collegiate teams to design, build, and operate solar-powered houses that are cost-effective, energy-efficient, and attractive.
The sponsorship included overseeing the creation of educational resources that will help strengthen middle school students’ understanding of solar energy and sustainability and the importance of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
To learn more, visit www.dowcorning.com/solardecathlon.
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The Solar Decathlon is a competition that challenges collegiate teams from around the world to design, build, and operate solar powered houses that are affordable, highly energy efficient, attractive, and easy to live in. Team Belgium’s “E-Cube” delivers an affordable, flexible, and modular home.
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SOLAR DECATHLON | http://www.newschool.edu/solar-decathlon
The Empowerhouse team breaks ground in the Deanwood neighborhood of Washington, D.C., the final site of their entry in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon, which challenges 20 collegiate teams from around the world to design, build, and operate solar-powered houses.
Get a behind-the-scenes look at the site where two lucky Deanwood families will live in net-zero homes, and hear the students discuss how they’ve taken the project beyond the mall and into the community.
In addition to readying the Deanwood site, the team of students from Parsons The New School for Design, Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy at The New School, and Stevens Institute of Technology spent the summer constructing the competition house on the Stevens campus in Hoboken, N.J.
Follow along with the team’s progress:
PARSONS | http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/solar-decathlon
MILANO | http://www.newschool.edu/milano/solar-decathlon
STEVENS | http://www.stevens.edu
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Sustainable or “green building” design and construction is our opportunity to use America’s resources more efficiently while creating healthier and more energy-efficient homes. America’s chemistry companies are leaders in energy efficiency. For buildings, we deliver energy-saving materials and products used for insulation, roofing, piping, windows, air infiltration systems, compact fluorescent lighting, appliances, solar panels, and many others.
The DOE Solar Decathlon, which ran from September 23 to October 2, challenged 20 collegiate teams “to design, build, and operate solar-powered houses that are cost-effective, energy-efficient, and attractive.” The winning teams successfully blended “affordability, consumer appeal, and design excellence with optimal energy production and maximum efficiency.”
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Over the weekend of September 30th, SACE’s Research Director, John Wilson, and Tennessee Valley Energy Policy Manager, Sam Gomberg, visited the 2011 Department of Energy Solar Decathlon on the National Mall in Washington D.C. The event challenges collegiate teams to design, build and operate solar-powered houses that are cost-effective, energy efficiency and attractive. Here John Wilson points out some of the innovative features being showcased during this week long event.
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For more on this story, go to http://www.pbs.org/newshour/The Solar Decathlon, hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy, challenges 20 teams from universities to design, build, and operate solar-powered houses. The Empowerhouse is one entry that is out to prove that energy efficient design is affordable and livable.
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Students of the Technical University of Delft are participating in the Solar Decathlon 2012 competition with their entry named ReVolt House. This design combines floatation and rotation in a solar house. Enjoy the video, and check out our facebook-page or website at www.revolthouse.com
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