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October 22, 2007, 08:36 AM ET
Darmstadt Team's House Wins Energy Department's Solar Decathlon
Final results of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon were announced Friday afternoon, and the Technical University of Darmstadt’s handsome wood-shuttered house (right) took first place among solar-powered structures made by the 20 college teams in the competition. The German university’s entry was so popular with the public that people were lined up to see it all last week, and it ended up winning in three of the contest’s 10 categories: architecture, engineering, and lighting.
The University of Maryland’s house finished second, and the University of Santa Clara’s finished third (despite arriving late because a trailer carrying part of the house suffered two broken axles, one while leaving Santa Clara, Calif., and the other in Nebraska).
Full results are available from the competition’s Web site. You can also watch a Chronicle slide show made last week about the competition, or read a July article about the University of Cincinnati team’s entry.
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