The teams led by universities will engage students nationally and internationally to develop the skills and knowledge to become the next generation of energy experts.
Virginia Tech
Utilizing best practices from manufacturing industries, i.e. automotive and aerospace, which createsome of the most sophisticated products; our goal is to design and build modular structures thatintegrate smart technologies, energy efficient systems, and new materials. This factory produced,energy-positive home adapts to changing patterns of life and work in the near future. The long-termresearch goal is to make buildings more efficient, more constructible, more affordable, livable,and more beautiful.
The Virginia Tech team is an interdisciplinary group featuring students and faculty advisors fromleading colleges, such as the College of Architecture and Urban Studies, the College of Engineering,and the Pamplin College of Business.
With the Solar Decathlon Middle East project, the FutureHAUS Dubai team intends to address two very important upcoming realities, a radical rise in world population and subsequent need to provide affordable housing, and the recent onset of the digital age and our need to better integrate newer, smarter, and more energy efficient systems. The design team will propose a small house with the program organized or consolidated into core walls that can be prefabricated. The result will be a pre-manufactured home that can be mass-produced with the complex components all installed in an ideal factory setting providing the necessary precision assembly.
