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Title
Build Challenge
Subtitle
2017
Location
Denver, Colorado
Date Start
October 5
Date End
 - 15, 2017
The U.S. Department of Energy will not hold a BuildingsNEXT competition for the 2025–2026 academic year.
Future programming updates will be posted at www.energy.gov/eere/buildings/building-technologies-office as they become available.

Gallery Of Houses

The gallery of houses is a collection of high-resolution images of each of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2017 houses. To see images of each team house, choose from the links below.

Photo of the exterior of a modern house with an extended roof over a large front deck. The black glass tubes of an evacuated tube solar collector are visible to the side of the deck. This is the Sinatra Living house by the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2017 team from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. University of Nevada, Las Vegas
University of Maryland
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Photo of the exterior of a brown, wood-sided house with a ramp approaching a side entrance with large windows and doors. A dark-colored metal room housing mechanical equipment is visible on the left side. This is the Selficient house by the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2017 team from the HU University of Applied Science, Utrecht, Netherlands. Netherlands: HU University of Applied Science Utrecht
Northwestern University
Swiss Team: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, School of Engineering and Architecture Fribourg, Geneva University of Art and Design, and the University of Fribourg
University of Alabama at Birmingham and Calhoun Community College
Photo of the exterior of a white house with a ramp approaching a pale blue front door, multiple vertical windows and clerestory windows above. There is a sign indicating this the Team Daytona Beach house for the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2017. Team Daytona Beach: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Daytona State College
UC Berkeley/U of Denver: University of California, Berkeley and University of Denver
University of California, Davis
Photo of the exterior of a house made from textured concrete with oversized gutters that extend off the front of the house, providing shade to the front patio. There are plants growing in the gutters and in large beds watered by the gutters. Washington University – St. Louis