Solar Decathlon China
The Solar Decathlon China is a technical-interdisciplinary competition in which teams of students from all over the world design and build a house whose energy requirements are covered solely by solar energy .
China stands for the venue and does not limit the origin of the participants to the Asian continent. The Solar Decathlon China, which will take place in 2013, will then take place for the first time in Datong (China) in the Shanxi province .
The offshoot of the American Solar Decathlon was first awarded in January 2011 by the Chinese government together with China's National Energy Administration (NEA), the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and Peking University (PKU). To this end, a bilateral agreement was reached between the American and Chinese governments. A similar agreement also established the Solar Decathlon Europe , which was held for the first time in 2008.
participation
Student teams from any university or college in the world can take part. Based on an application that each team must submit in advance of the competition, the organizer makes a preselection, whereby the field of participants is limited. In addition to the architectural and energy-related planning of the house, the organization and financing of the project are an essential part of the competition. The student teams have two years to plan and implement the construction project. The competition ends with a two-week meeting of all participants, in which the teams or their houses compete against each other in ten disciplines.
rating
The name Decathlon is derived from ten sub-disciplines within the competition. The prototypes are evaluated not only in terms of energy efficiency and the innovative use of energy-active solar technology , but also in terms of living quality and sustainable development for the building industry. In addition, the public interest in energy-efficient and sustainable construction aroused by the respective teams is assessed.
In 2013, the following sub-disciplines are decisive in the competition:
- architecture
- Technical implementation & construction
- Solar applications
- Energy balance
- Comfort and indoor climate
- Equipping with household appliances
- communication
- Marketability and potential
- Hot water supply
- Use of consumer electronics
SDC 2013
The first Solar Decathlon China will take place in Datong (China) in August 2013 .
Participant of the SDC 2013
- Tsinghua University and Florida International University (China-United States)
- Polytechnic Institute of New York University , Ghent University , and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Belgium-United States)
- Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
- Abbaspour University of Technology (Iran)
- Peking University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (China-United States)
- Tel Aviv University , Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Neri Bloomfield School of Design and Education, College of Management Academic Studies (Israel)
- Inner Mongolia University of Technology (China)
- Alfred State College and Guilin University of Technology and Alfred University (China-United States)
- London Metropolitan University and Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (England-China)
- Shandong Jianzhu University (China)
- Chinese University of Mining and Technology (China)
- Shanghai Jiaotong University (China)
- South China University of Technology and Central China University of Science and Technology (China)
- University of Southeast China (China)
- University of Wollongong (Australia)
- Beijing Jiaotong University and Bern University of Applied Sciences (China-Switzerland)
- New Jersey Institute of Technology and Harbin Institute of Technology (United States-China)
- Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden)
- Technical University of Malaysia (Malaysia)
- American University of Cairo (Egypt)
- Xiamen University (China)
- Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology (China)
- National University of Singapore (Singapore).
Web links
- Solar Decathlon China - Official Organizer Website English
- Solar Decathlon China Teams 2013 - Official organizer website Chinese
- Solar Decathlon - Official website of the US parent organization
- Solar Decathlon Europe Teams 2012 - Solar competition houses
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the Solar Decathlon 2013 in China (English website) ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 7, 2013
- ^ Daily Telegraph report (English website) accessed March 8, 2013
- ↑ Founding agreement for the Solar Decathlon China ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 18, 2013.
- ↑ What is Solar Decathlon Europe? (English website) Retrieved October 24, 2012
- ↑ Solar Decathlon China Competition Rules 2013 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.5 MB) accessed on March 18, 2013
