University of Colorado Wins 2005 Solar Decathlon
Environment News Service, October, 2005
WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) — --> U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman Friday announced that the University of Colorado took overall honors in the 2005 Solar Decathlon on the National Mall. Cornell University placed second, and California Polytechnic State University finished third.
The teams transport their solar houses to the National Mall, where they form a solar village. The solar houses built by each team remained open to the public on the Mall all weekend.
The University of Colorado (CU) residence is a single-chassis solar mobile home incorporating a patent-pending structural insulated panel system, called the BioSIP, which was invented by the CU Team specifically for their Solar Decathlon entry.
Materials used in the winning home's construction and...
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