Did you know that Ideate, Inc. is a Bronze Level sponsor of Refract House?
The Refract House team is collaboration of Santa Clara University and California College of the Arts in their bid to win the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2009 Solar Decathlon. Refract House is one of the 20 university-led teams selected from around the globe to compete in the DOE's fourth Solar Decathlon. Teams represent the U.S. and Puerto Rico, Germany, Spain and Canada. The competition is being on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
Ideate’s sponsored team is built on the recognition that the problem of fossil fuel depletion is one we all must address. The team is comprised of a wide range of students from diverse educational disciplines working with expert faculty members. These students, majoring in everything from engineering to communications, have come together to build a solar home, the Refract House.
Glynnis Patterson, Ideate, Inc. Director, Services Development, says, “All of the technical staff at Ideate are interested in sustainable design and building information modeling (BIM), so when we got the request for help from CCA, we knew we had to jump in. Anytime you take on a project like the Refract House, with its unconventional construction and design criteria, it's an opportunity to test your own capabilities and the capabilities of the software. Pulling our staff together to help this team was well worth the effort.”
In the Solar Decathlon, selected college and university student teams are competing to design, build and operate the most attractive, livable, marketable and energy-efficient solar-powered house. 10 specific areas are judged: architecture, engineering, market viability, communications, comfort, appliances, hot water, lighting, energy balance, and transportation. Each team is provided $100,000 seed money from DOE and must obtain sponsors for additional required funds. The Solar Decathlon complements the President's Solar America Initiative, which seeks to make solar power cost-competitive with conventional forms of electricity by 2015.
Each project house must provide enough electricity and hot water to perform all the functions of a home, from powering lights and electronics to cooking, washing clothes and dishes, plus produce enough surplus energy to power an electric car.
Ideate, Inc.’s Bronze Level sponsorship includes an Ideate a training team staffed with team members educated at Cornell, Carnegie-Mellon, and Georgia Institute of Technology. Along with training, Ideate provided books and materials to assist the SCU-CCA team with their construction of a Revit-based BIM for the SCU-CCA Refract House.
Public tours of the Solar Decathlon entries will be available on the National Mall from Oct. 8 through Oct. 18, 2009. During public tour hours, some of the team houses may be closed for competition purposes until an overall winner is announced. The Refract House will be moved, re-assembled and on display after the competition in the San Francisco Bay Area.
For an overview of the competition and project http://www.refracthouse.com/index.php
The Refract House team is collaboration of Santa Clara University and California College of the Arts in their bid to win the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2009 Solar Decathlon. Refract House is one of the 20 university-led teams selected from around the globe to compete in the DOE's fourth Solar Decathlon. Teams represent the U.S. and Puerto Rico, Germany, Spain and Canada. The competition is being on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
Ideate’s sponsored team is built on the recognition that the problem of fossil fuel depletion is one we all must address. The team is comprised of a wide range of students from diverse educational disciplines working with expert faculty members. These students, majoring in everything from engineering to communications, have come together to build a solar home, the Refract House.
Glynnis Patterson, Ideate, Inc. Director, Services Development, says, “All of the technical staff at Ideate are interested in sustainable design and building information modeling (BIM), so when we got the request for help from CCA, we knew we had to jump in. Anytime you take on a project like the Refract House, with its unconventional construction and design criteria, it's an opportunity to test your own capabilities and the capabilities of the software. Pulling our staff together to help this team was well worth the effort.”
In the Solar Decathlon, selected college and university student teams are competing to design, build and operate the most attractive, livable, marketable and energy-efficient solar-powered house. 10 specific areas are judged: architecture, engineering, market viability, communications, comfort, appliances, hot water, lighting, energy balance, and transportation. Each team is provided $100,000 seed money from DOE and must obtain sponsors for additional required funds. The Solar Decathlon complements the President's Solar America Initiative, which seeks to make solar power cost-competitive with conventional forms of electricity by 2015.
Each project house must provide enough electricity and hot water to perform all the functions of a home, from powering lights and electronics to cooking, washing clothes and dishes, plus produce enough surplus energy to power an electric car.
Ideate, Inc.’s Bronze Level sponsorship includes an Ideate a training team staffed with team members educated at Cornell, Carnegie-Mellon, and Georgia Institute of Technology. Along with training, Ideate provided books and materials to assist the SCU-CCA team with their construction of a Revit-based BIM for the SCU-CCA Refract House.
Public tours of the Solar Decathlon entries will be available on the National Mall from Oct. 8 through Oct. 18, 2009. During public tour hours, some of the team houses may be closed for competition purposes until an overall winner is announced. The Refract House will be moved, re-assembled and on display after the competition in the San Francisco Bay Area.
For an overview of the competition and project http://www.refracthouse.com/index.php
For up to the minute news from the competition, follow @Refracthouse on Twitter.
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