Virginia Tech Retains Solar Decathlon Europe Lead
As of 7 p.m. Monday, Virginia Tech remains in first place overall at Solar Decathlon Europe because of its third-place finish in the Industrialization and Market Viability contest. The Industrialization and Market Viability announcement was made at 5 p.m. today. The Virginia Tech decathletes were extremely happy to again place in the top three in a major contest.
The winner of the Industrialization and Market Viability contest was the Spanish team from Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera. It has the beautiful house made out of Corian I wrote about last week. Congratulations also go to the Rosenheim team for winning second place.
The overall standings (which can be found on the Solar Decathlon Europe home page) show Virginia Tech in first, University of Applied Sciences Rosenheim in second, and Ecole National Supérieure darchitecture de Grenoble in third.
Today’s Solar Decathlon Europe press announcement included the following:
Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Winner of the Solar Decathlon Europe Industrialization and Market Viability Award
Solar Decathlon Europe has awarded the prize for the Industrialization and Market Viability contest to Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, with its solar house, SML House. University of Applied Sciences Rosenheim and Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University have been awarded second and third place, respectively.
Senka Morioka, Luis Basagoiti, and Garry Palmer have been the members of the jury for the Industrialization and Market Viability contest. They have judged the viability of the housing market and the possibilities of industrialization and group association in greater density.
The scoring earned by the teams has been:
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1 |
Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera | 67.3 |
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2 |
University of Applied Sciences Rosenheim |
62.0 |
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3 |
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University |
60.3 |
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4 |
Ecole National Supérieure d`Architecture de Grenoble | 53.7 |
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5 |
Bergische Universität Wuppertal | 52.7 |
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6 |
Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences | 51.3 |
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6 |
University of Nottingham | 51.3 |
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8 |
University of Florida | 51 |
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9 |
Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña | 46.3 |
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10 |
Fachochschule fur Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin | 46 |
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10 |
Tongji University Shanghai | 46 |
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12 |
Universidad de Valladolid | 45 |
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13 |
Instituto de Arquitectura Avanzada de Cataluña | 41.3 |
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13 |
Universidad de Sevilla | 41.3 |
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15 |
Aalto University Finland | 41 |
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16 |
Tianjin University | 38.7 |
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17 |
Arts et Métiers Paris Tech | 35.7 |
Richard King is the director of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. Throughout the Solar Decathlon Europe competition, U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon organizers are reporting from Madrid.