DU Solar Decathlon Team Wins $25,000 to Construct a Net-Zero Energy Home
Department of Energy Provides Grants to Fund Competition Projects
校园Craft, a 正规赌博十大平台排行 team comprised of more than 20 undergraduate 和 graduate students from various academic disciplines, 获得25美元奖金,000 to construct an energy-efficient home as part of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon international design 和 construction competition. The Solar Decathlon is a collegiate competition with 10 contests that challenge student teams to design 和 build highly efficient 和 innovative buildings powered by renewable energy. The Department of Energy provided grants to 11 semifinalist teams to help fund their competition projects’ construction costs. 校园Craft received the award during an event at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, 科罗拉多州本月早些时候.
由指导老师领导 埃里克·霍尔特他是纽约大学的助理教授 丹尼尔斯商学院 伯恩斯房地产和建筑管理学院, the 校园Craft team has worked since fall 2018 to plan 和 design a project to compete in the Solar Decathlon 2020 Local Build Challenge. The project focuses on retrofitting an existing home south of the DU campus, 坐落在联邦应急管理局的百年洪泛区内, 更节能——净零能耗, 确切地说. This means the building will produce enough renewable energy to meet its own annual energy consumption requirements, helping to reduce the use of nonrenewable energy in the building sector. The team also developed preliminary designs for a net-zero accessory dwelling unit to be located on the same property as the retrofit house.
校园Craft anticipates successfully developing practical residential solutions for net-zero energy housing in the Denver metropolitan area while simultaneously demonstrating practices for construction within the FEMA floodplain zone.
“This student competition is as real world as it gets,” Holt says. “The Solar Decathlon challenges students to find creative solutions to be net zero, while teaching them to operate in the real world of design, 规划建设.”
The team will now begin the ‘build phase’ of the project, 学生将在哪里完成设计, apply for permits 和 begin construction 和 retrofit activities. They will focus on creating construction industry partnerships to gain support for the project 和 collaboratively develop practices to move the industry forward. 校园Craft plans to incorporate design innovations that reduce the buildings’ negative impact on the environment 和 provide maximum comfort for the eventual occupants.
“I am excited to be a part of this competition because it gives me the opportunity to apply the learning from my academic program to a real-life situation that impacts our community,Daniela Gamundi说, a senior in the Real Estate 和 the Built 环境 program.
Participation in the Solar Decathlon contributes to students’ experiential learning 和 eventual career success. 自2002年以来, the Solar Decathlon Build Challenge has established a worldwide reputation as a successful educational program 和 workforce development opportunity that has positively affected more than 18,000名大学生. DU 和 UC Berkeley placed third in the 2017-18 Solar Decathlon competition.
Students interested in participating in leadership positions or construction activities for the competition can attend information sessions, which will be held at the Daniels College of Business in the coming weeks.
Winners of the Solar Decathlon Build Challenge will be determined based on the combined scores of the 10 contests 和 will be recognized at the biennial competition event 和 public exhibit June 25-July 5, 2020, 在华盛顿的国家广场上, D.C.
