By the time the house is on display in October 2009, Virginia Tech will have been working on the design and building of the 2009 house for almost two years! Follow the progress below.
OCTOBER 2008
- Solar team visits Kullman Building Industries, Lebanon, New Jersey - Kullman is the leading worldwide off site builder of permanent steel and concrete multi-story buildings
- Ove Arup serves as consultant and executes engineering calculations
- Digital drawings sent to the factory; material take-offs made, steel ordered and cut. Team observes fabrication of frame
- Adjustments and corrections to steel assembly made on site
- Team travels to New York - presents preliminary project to design offices - RDS 4, Ove Arup and Shop Architect
- Team visits Fabrication exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art
- Film crew accompanies team for initial filming of video that documents design and construction processes.
- RFP for Solar Decathlon Europe is successful. Virginia Tech Solar House is one of 20 (two from the U.S.) scheduled to compete in Madrid, Spain in June of 2010
