Virginia Tech Lumenhaus kindles solar possibilities
A team of faculty, undergraduate, and graduate students spanning four colleges — the College of Architecture and Urban Studies, the College of Engineering, the Pamplin College of Business, and the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences — has created a solar-powered house for the 2009 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon.
Solar DecathlonFrom Oct. 4 through Oct 17, 2009, the Virginia Tech Lumenhaus
will be displayed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., where it
will compete against 19 other universities to determine which team has
designed and built the most efficient, operational solar-powered house
to address evolving quality of life issues. more