Woohoo! Great Job Team California!

Sincere congratulations to everyone from Team California.

The Refract House project from SCU+CCA took 3rd place overall! Richard King, Director of the Solar Decathlon, said the team thought "outside the box" when announcing the awards. The teams' creativity and hard work paid off!

•Architecture – 1st place
•Communications – 1st place
•Engineering – 2nd place
•Appliances – 2nd place
•Home Entertainment – 2nd place
•Hot Water – 3rd place
•Market Viability – 3rd place
•Lighting Design – 6th place
•Net metering – 12th place
•Comfort Zone – 14th place

For more details:
www.cca.edu/about/press/2009/cca-and-scu-team-california-win-3rd-place-solar-decathlon
www.scu.edu/news/?b=208&c=5811
http://www.refracthouse.com/
www.facebook.com/people/refract-house/100000001534042
www.twitter.com/refracthouse
http://www.solardecathlon.org/
http://www.scu.edu/
http://www.cca.edu/

Ideate is proud to have provided Autodesk Revit training and courseware to the students - the tools the team used to develop the “excellent drawings” cited when the First in Architecture was awarded.

Latest Updates on the Solar Decathlon

For all the latest updates from Washington, D.C., check out the Solar Decathlon Blog:

http://www.refracthouse.com

or follow Refract House on Twitter:

http://twitter.com/Refracthouse

Why is Ideate following Team California's Refract House entry so closely? Well, we are proud to be a Megawatt sponsor and been instrumental early in the project, providing the Autodesk Revit training and courseware that the team used to develop the “excellent drawings” cited when the First in Architecture was awarded.

Go Team California!