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See richard king speak with Decathletes about their home features: solartoday.org/video.
solar decathlon 2011: final standings 1. university of maryland 951.151 2. Purdue university 931.390 3. New zealand: Victoria university of wellington 919.058 4. middlebury College 914.809 5. The Ohio State university 903.938 6. The Southern California Institute of Architecture and California Institute of Technology 899.490 7. university of Illinois at urbana-Champaign 875.715 8. The university of Tennessee 859.132 9. Team massachusetts: massachusetts College of Art and Design and the university of massachusetts at lowell 856.351 0. Team Canada: university of Calgary 11. Florida International university 12. Appalachian State university 13. Parsons The New School for Design and Stevens Institute of Technology 828.816 14. Tidewater Virginia: Old Dominion university and hampton university 774.910 15. Team China: Tongji university 765.471
16. Team Belgium:
ghent university 709.843
17. Team New York:
The City College of New York 677.356
18. Team New Jersey:
rutgers - The State university
of New Jersey and New Jersey
Institute of Technology 669.352
19. Team Florida:
The university of South Florida,
Florida State university,
The university of Central Florida
and The university of Florida 619.006
stefano Paltera/u.s. dePartment of energy solar decathlon
Team members from New Zealand’s Victoria University of Wellington celebrate after taking first place
in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 Engineering contest at West Potomac Park in
Washington, D. C., Thursday, Sept. 29.
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tionally well and was one of the most cost-effective in the competition.
SCI-Arc/Caltech’s CHIP (compact hyper-
insulated prototype) house turned conventional
wisdom inside out. Designed by the Southern
California Institute of Architecture and Califor-
nia Institute of Technology, CHIP is an affordable
dwelling with a small footprint, designed to be
placed just about anywhere in a dense city like
Los Angeles. California’s soaring land costs and
suburban sprawl are the motivating factors behind
the design. One of the house’s innovative, eye-
catching features is its “outsulation” — a vinyl-
coated fabric mesh that contains the insulation
and is wrapped around the outside of the house.
stefano Paltera/u.s. dePartment of energy solar decathlon
Visitors tour the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 in Washington, D.C., with Arlington,
Va., left, and the Lincoln Memorial, right, in the background.
