{"570141":{"#nid":"570141","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Students Building Solar Home","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlthough construction won\u2019t begin until the spring semester of 2017, students have been working since 2015 to design the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/solarhome.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESolar Home at Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E that will be entered in the next U.S. Department of Energy\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.solardecathlon.gov\/\u0022\u003ESolar Decathlon\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe home is completely designed by students. The team is comprised of 43 students, both undergraduates and graduates, including several engineering students and computer science students, 11 architecture students, and four business students. They are assisted by Principle Investigator \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/directory\/faculty\/subramanian\/index.html\u0022\u003ERavi Subramanian\u003C\/a\u003E, along with \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.arch.gatech.edu\/people\/charles-rudolph\u0022\u003ECharles Rudolph\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/casslab.gatech.edu\/ctelenko\/\u0022\u003ECassandra Telenko\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/faculty\/realff\u0022\u003EMatthew Realff\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmanda Schaefer, an undergraduate student who works with \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sustain.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECampus Sustainability\u003C\/a\u003E, talked with William Courr\u00e8ges-Clercq, and undergraduate student and business team lead for the Georgia Tech Solar Decathlon Team. He\u2019s been with the team since its inception in Fall 2015. He explained that Solar Home is the result of a passion he and Alex Poux, a mechanical engineering major and project lead for Solar Home, have for sustainability and Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sustain.gatech.edu\/blog\/solar-home-georgia-tech\u0022\u003ERead on for the full interview and more renderings of the home.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Georgia Tech is one of 14 colleges and universities participating in the Department of Energy\u0027s 2017 Solar Decathlon"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlthough construction won\u2019t begin until the spring semester of 2017, students have been working since 2015 to design the Solar Home at Georgia Tech that will be entered in the next Department of Energy Solar Decathlon.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Although construction won\u2019t begin until the spring semester of 2017, students have been working since 2015 to design the Solar Home at Georgia Tech that will be entered in the next Department of Energy Solar Decathlon."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2016-08-30 09:28:07","changed_gmt":"2022-05-26 17:09:36","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-08-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-08-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"570151":{"id":"570151","type":"image","title":"Solar Home 2017","body":null,"created":"1472563805","gmt_created":"2016-08-30 13:30:05","changed":"1475895379","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:56:19","alt":"Solar Home 2017","file":{"fid":"207060","name":"gtsh.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gtsh.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gtsh.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":74015,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/gtsh.jpg?itok=66f0m4W4"}}},"media_ids":["570151"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.solardecathlon.gov\/","title":"About the Solar Decathlon"},{"url":"http:\/\/sustain.gatech.edu\/blog\/solar-home-georgia-tech","title":"Read More"},{"url":"http:\/\/sustain.gatech.edu\/","title":"Office of Campus Sustainability"}],"groups":[{"id":"1316","name":"Green Buzz"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"168693","name":"campus sustainability"},{"id":"479","name":"Green Buzz"},{"id":"168071","name":"serve-learn-sustain"},{"id":"170758","name":"solar decathlon"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECampus Sustainability\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["anne.rogers@sustain.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}