The house is largely build by students. It is the synthesis of undergraduate education and research tempered by the working of a real product.
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
