From the 2/2/06 UC News Record:

 

 

Students help design, build solar house

By: Zach Garrison

Issue date: 2/2/06 Section: News

 

CinSUNnati, the University of Cincinnati's Solar Decathlon team, recently learned that they will be one of the 20 teams to compete in the 2007 competition.

 

The Solar Decathlon is a two-year competition in which universities from across the nation, as well as teams from Europe and Canada, compete to design an energy efficient solar powered house to be displayed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

 

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http://www.newsrecord.org/media/paper693/news/2006/02/02/News/Students.Help.Design.Build.Solar.House-1595306.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.newsrecord.org

 

From UC News, 11/21/06:

 

 

PHOTO: Architecture graduate student Jacqueline Squires with the solar house model. Photovoltaic roof panels will help power the house.

 

PHOTO: Architecture graduate student Tom Rudary displays the underside of the model. The grooves under the house may be used for water storage tanks.

 

PHOTO: A basic model of the solar house.

 

A Power-Full Challenge for UC Students: Build a Solar House

UC students are energized as they work on a solar house project to include functioning, sun-powered appliances and mechanics. When completed next year, the house will be transported to Washington, D.C., in a competition amongst the world’s 20 leading university design programs.

Date: 11/21/2006

By: M.B. Reilly

Phone: (513) 556-1824

Photos By: Andrew Higley

 

University of Cincinnati students are in a heated raced against their counterparts at schools throughout the United States, Canada, Germany and Spain to build the best solar house in the world.

 

UC is one of 20 international competitors participating in the Solar Decathlon, a contest among the world’s best design, engineering and business programs to envision, build and then finally display a fully functioning, completely solar-powered house. The final collection of homes will be exhibited on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in October 2007.

 

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http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.asp?id=4786

 

UC Solar Decathlon team finishes 15th

Building Cincinnati, 10/23/07

 

UC's News Record reports that UC's Solar Decathlon team finished fifteenth out of twenty teams at the international competition held this year on the National Mall.

 

The solar house is the product of a contest called the Solar Decathlon, an international competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy in which only 20 universities were selected to participate.

 

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http://www.building-cincinnati.com/2007/10/uc-solar-decathlon-team-finishes-15th.html

 

We only ranked 5th in architecture?!

A bum just came down my street with a cart and asked me if I had any cans. I gave him all of the empty Bud Lite and energy drink cans in my house. I just realized those bums who push carts full of cans are doing more for energy efficiency than certain misLEEDing things in the current spotlight. For that, I gave him a full cold can of his choice. :)

^ Yeh...thanks again for the beer.

UC Showcase heats up with solar house exhibit

BY RYAN MCLENDON | SOAPBOX MEDIA

March 4, 2008

 

Images with link.

 

UPTOWN - Visit the University of Cincinnati campus Friday and step into the sleek environs of a solar-powered future—an 800-square-foot solar-powered home designed and built by UC students and faculty—as part of UC Showcase 2008. The annual Showcase allows UC researchers to show off their best work in medicine, technology, business and partnerships during a day designed expressly for the public, Friday, March 7, from 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

 

With nationally and internationally ranked programs in design, engineering and medicine, University of Cincinnati is one of a handful of institutions in the nation and the world (and the only one in Ohio) named as a PACE (Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education) university. Last year, that designation earned UC more than $420-million in advanced hardware and software from a select consortium on international firms. The University of Cincinnati is ranked among the top 25 public research universities in the U.S., earning more than $330 million annually in research support.

 

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