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Title
Build Challenge
Subtitle
2007
Location
Washington, D.C.
Date Start
October 12
Date End
 - 20, 2007

Team Montreal: Keeping Good Company

Photo of Team Montreal's Solar Decathlon 2007 house in front of the Biosphere Environmental Museum. Enlarge image

Lumen Essence, now called Ecoological House, is at home on the grounds of Environment Canada's Montreal Biosphere (French: Biosphère de Montréal).
(Courtesy of Montreal Biosphere)

Who: Team Montréal
What: Lumen Essence, renamed Ecoological House
Where: 
Montreal Biosphere, 160 Tour-de-l'Isle road, Montreal, Quebec H3C 4G8 Canada
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Public tours: Not available.

Solar Decathlon 2007

Team Montréal rebuilt Lumen Essence at Environment Canada’s Montreal Biosphere after finishing eighth overall in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2007. Lumen Essence was renamed Ecoological House and officially reopened to the public on June 23, 2008.

For five years, Team Montréal’s house taught museum visitors about energy-efficient design and advanced technologies accessible to homeowners. The exhibit closed in 2013.

The house was originally created by three Canadian universities—école de Technologie Supérieure, Université de Montréal, and McGill University. It featured custom walls, soy insulation, low-e windows, photovoltaic panels, and a green roof atop a steel-frame base.