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Virginia Tech smart home takes on Europe
msn real estate
September 4, 2009
Making your home energy efficient is one thing, but what I'm really waiting for is a zero-energy home that has its own brain...

Virginia Tech solar house on exhibit at National Building Museum Sept. 5-27
Virginia Tech News
September 3, 2009
An innovative solar house that has been designed and constructed for the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon by a team of Virginia Tech faculty and students will be on exhibition at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., Sept. 5-27...

Virginia Tech's Smart Solar House
Move Trends
September 2, 2009
Virginia Tech has recently completed their 2009 entry to the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathalon competition and the Solar Decathalon Europe...

Virginia Tech solar house to hold community open house Sunday, Aug. 30
Virginia Tech News
August 27, 2009
The Virginia Tech solar house will be open for tours on Sunday, Aug. 30 from 4-6 p.m. when faculty and students will be on hand to answer questions and describe the final stages of construction...

Eco Homes: Virginia Tech designs zero-energy Lumenhaus home for Solar Decathlon
ecofriend
August 22, 2009
This year's Solar Decathlon competition has kept universities craving for the next-gen technology that can be integrated into smart homes of the future...

Virginia Tech LUMENHAUS
Tiny House TV
August 21, 2009
This is an extremely high tech green home design created by the students at Virginia Tech and will be entered into the 2009 Solar Decathlon. It's central computer brain controls everything to make life more comfortable for it's inhabitants...

Lumenhaus - Virginia Tech's Smart Solar House
Inhabitat
August 21, 2009
We're getting excited about this year's Solar Decathlon and love Virginia Tech's zero-energy, smart house. Lumenhaus - which is a combination of Lumen, meaning power of light, and Haus, which is a reference to the Bauhaus architectural movement...

Va Tech's LumenHaus Shows Homeowners Future of Smart Energy Use
Virginia Homeowners Alliance
August 17, 2009
One of the Commonwealth's universities is paving the way to energy efficient housing, as recently covered by the Roanoke Times. Va Tech has entered in the 2009 U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathalon with their solar-powered home LumenHaus...

Virginia Tech Solar House Team Unwraps the 2009 House
Innovations Report
August 14, 2009
Virginia Tech's 2009 solar house team have moved their zero-energy home from the construction site to a public site and revealed its technology online...

Lumenhaus: Green Home Inspired by Mies
re-nest
August 13, 2009
This green house was inspired by the Farnsworth House by Mies Van Der Rohe...

Virginia Tech's LUMENHAUS Prepares for 2009 Solar Decathlon
Campaign for Virginia Tech
August 11, 2009
Movie of the house on the move. LUMENHAUS was transported from the facility on Plantation Road to the Blacksburg Square Shopping Center...

Lumenhaus
Materialicious
August 11, 2009
Lumenhaus is Virginia Tech's 2009 entry to the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon competition. The 800 sq. ft. zero-energy house is completely powered by the sun delivers a brighter way to live, literally and figuratively...

LUMENHAUS: Intelligent Green House of the Future
Solar Feeds
August 2, 2009
This year's Solar Decathlon competition has kept universities craving for the next-gen technology that can be integrated into smart homes of the future...

Eclipsis System on display at Taubman Museum of Art
Virginia Tech News
May 26, 2009
The Virginia Tech team of students and faculty creating an innovative house powered by the sun for the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon will exhibit their progress on the project at the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, Va...

Virginia Tech one of only two US universities to compete in Solar Decathlon Europe
Virginia Tech News
May 22, 2009
Virginia Tech is one of only two U.S. universities invited to compete in the first Solar Decathlon Europe, which will take place in Madrid in June 2010...

Assistant professor of finance wins electric car raffle
Virginia Tech News
April 10, 2009
Students who are designing and constructing a solar house for the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon competition have raised funds for their project by raffling an electric car...

Virginia Tech students compete in energy decathlon
WDBJ-TV, CHANNEL 7 (CBS)
March 20, 2009
It may not look like much right now, but a three-year project by Virginia Tech students could be the future of energy efficiency...

Virginia Tech is one of 20 schools competing in a solar house competition
WSLS-TV CHANNEL 10 (NBC)
March 20, 2009
Virginia Tech is the only school in Virginia competing in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon being held in Washington D.C...

Secretary of Natural Resources Preston Bryant to tour Virginia Tech solar house, select winning raffle ticket
Virginia Tech News
March 19, 2009
On Friday, March 20, Virginia Secretary of Natural Resources L. Preston Bryant Jr. will visit Virginia Tech to tour a solar house being built by students for the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. Bryant, who also heads...

Grasshopper workshop with Virginia Tech's solar decathlon
Designalyze blog
February 16, 2009
Hello this is Jennifer Downey from Marble Fairbanks Architects. I did a workshop conducted Tuesday February 10 through Friday February 13 with the Virginia Tech 2009 Solar Decathlon Team in Blacksburg, Virginia...

Design Intelligence names Virginia Tech primary Solar Decathlon faculty advisor Most Admired Educators of 2009
Virginia Tech News
January 15, 2009
Jack Davis, College of Architecture and Urban Studies Dean and Reynolds Metals Endowed Professor of Architecture, and Robert Dunay, the T. A. Carter Professor of Architecture and Center for Design Research Director, have been named two of 26 nationally Most Admired Educators of 2009 by Design Intelligence...

Students bring prefabrication and custom design together in an innovative house for Habitat for Humanity
Virginia Tech News
December 2, 2008
Prefabricated housing has long been stigmatized by "cookie cutter" dwellings that offer limited spatial quality, but two recent Virginia Tech graduates have worked with faculty to design and build an innovative house for Habitat for Humanity that takes advantage of the prefabricated housing process while providing all the attributes of a custom-designed home...

Solar Decathlon project to hold electric car raffle
Virginia Tech News
November 17, 2008
Students designing and constructing a solar house for the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon competition are raising funds for their project by raffling an electric car...

Virginia Tech to compete in 2009 Solar Decathlon
WSLS-TV CHANNEL 10 (NBC)
February 4, 2008
Virginia Tech hopes to once again show off their prowess to harness the power of the sun.
The U.S. Department of Energy selected the Hokies to compete in the 2009 solar decathalon. The event will be held in the Fall, at the National Mall in Washington, D.C...

Virginia Tech to compete in 2009 Solar Decathlon
Virginia Tech News
February 4, 2008
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced that Virginia Tech will be one of 20 university teams selected to compete in its fourth Solar Decathlon, which will be held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in the fall of 2009...