Tech selected for Solar Decathlon 2007
By Matthew Nagel, Institute Communications & Public Affairs
A sun dial at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid’s energy-efficient, solar-powered house monitors the sun's position during the Solar Decathlon on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Saturday, Oct. 15. 2005
GT Solar Decathlon Model Unveiled
Georgia Tech Solar Decathlon Web Site 
The U.S. Department of Energy selected Georgia Tech as one of twenty schools that will compete in the Solar Decathlon 2007 in Washington, DC.
Each team will be awarded $100,000 over two years to support the Solar Decathlon’s research goal of reducing the cost of solar-powered homes and advancing solar technology.
The Solar Decathlon is an international competition that brings student teams from universities across the United States, Europe and Canada to compete in designing, building and operating highly energy efficient, completely solar-powered houses. The teams will assemble their homes on the Mall.
Contest rules require that each house generate enough energy from the sun to operate a household, a home-based business and related transportation.
Georgia Tech’s team will by led by College of Architecture professors Chris Jarrett, Ruchi Choudhary and Franca Trubiano. They will act as project managers for an interdisciplinary team of students who will be assembled to create the home.
Building Ecology and Emerging Technologies is a new study track within Master’s of Science program in the College of Architecture and it offered an impetus to submit a bid for the Decathlon,” said Trubiano. “We thought the Solar Decathlon could be a project that would structure, organize and then propel the Building Ecology and Emerging Technologies study track.”
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