"The Solar Decathlon is a competition for university schools of engineering and architecture to design, from the ground up, a solar-powered, high efficiency, self-sustaining house," says Solar Decathlon Director Richard King.

Solar Housing Competition

The Decathlon: Housing’s Bright Spot

Teams design and build homes powered by the sun

This past October, taking a walk on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., might have been more like taking a walk into the future. Twenty -powered homes were sprawled across the mall’s west end, transforming it from a park into something that resembled an innovative new housing development. Park purists take note: the transformation was only temporary. The homes were part of a competition.

“The Decathlon is a competition for university schools of engineering and architecture to design, from the ground up, a -powered, high efficiency, self-sustaining house,” says Decathlon Director Richard King.

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