University of Colorado at Boulder
All of the mechanics for the University of Colorado at Boulder entry are housed in one shipping container mass produced in a factory and ready to go anywhere in the world. Students said the design could make use of excess shipping containers due to the country's trade deficit.
Up on the roof, solar panels and piping generate electricity and heat that can be re-radiated out of the house into Colorado's notoriously super black sky at night for to cool the indoor temperature; the system can be reversed to melt snow. The system can generate as much as 8 kilowatts of energy, even though the competition only called for 2. But the students wanted to account for the inclement weather in Colorado. After all, that will be the house's permanent home as an outreach facility and educational hub of sorts for solar energy.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
University of Texas at Austin
University of Missouri-Rolla
Santa Clara University
University of Maryland
Georgia Institute of Technology
Penn State
M.I.T.
Ecole de Technologie Superiore, Universite de Montreal, McGill University
Universidad de Puerto Rico
University of Colorado at Boulder
Lawrence Technological University
New York Institute of Technology
Carnegie Mellon
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