Solar Decathlon Europe

The Solar Decathlon Europe 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 .

Europe stands for the venue and does not limit the origin of the participants to the European continent. The two competitions held so far took place in Madrid (Spain). The Solar Decathlon Europe, which will take place in 2014 ^[obsolete] , will then take place in Versailles (France) for the first time.

The offshoot of the American Solar Decathlon was awarded for the first time in summer 2008 by the Spanish government together with the Spanish Ministry of Construction and the Polytechnic University of Madrid . To this end, a bilateral agreement was reached between the American and Spanish governments. A similar agreement also established the Solar Decathlon China , which will be held for the first time in 2013.

participation

Student teams from any university or college in the world can take part. However, the Spanish government has excluded the Israeli Ariel University from SDE 2010 because it is "in occupied territories". 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 10 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 2012, the following sub-disciplines were decisive in the competition:

architecture
Technical implementation & construction
Energy efficiency
Electrical energy balance
Comfort and indoor climate
Functionality of the house
communication
Prefabrication and market potential
innovation
sustainability

In addition to the awards in the sub-disciplines, special prizes outside of the actual competition - e.g. B. for a house that is particularly handicapped accessible.

SDE 2010

Virginia Tech's winning project in the Solar Decathlon Europe 2010 in Madrid

The Solar Decathlon Europe 2010 took place from June 18th to 28th in Madrid. In total, over 190,000 people visited the competition site in the center of Madrid.

1st place at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg
2nd place University of Applied Sciences Rosenheim
3rd place University of Technology Stuttgart

Participant of the SDE 2010
Germany	Spain	England	Finland	France	America	Asia
Living Equia Team Berlin ( HTW Berlin , Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin , UdK Berlin )	Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Valencia	Cambridge University	Helsinki University of Technology	Ecole National Supérieure d'architecture de Grenoble	Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg (USA)	Tianjin University (CHN)
University of Wuppertal	Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (UPC), Barcelona	University of Nottingham			University of Florida , Gainesville (USA)	Ariel University Center of Samaria (Ariel University Center of Samaria) (ISR, West Bank)
Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences	Universidad de Seville				Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (MEX)
HFT Stuttgart	Universidad de Valladolid				Consórcio Brasil, Sao Paulo (BRA)

SDE 2012

The second Solar Decathlon Europe took place again in Madrid in September 2012. With around 220,000 visitors, the public interest in the competition increased, although the exhibition grounds in Madrid were not as central as in the 2010 competition.

1st place 908.72 points House Canopea, Team RHONE ALPES (France)
2nd place 897.39 points House Patio 2.12, Team Andalucia (Spain)
3rd place 863.49 points House Med in Italy, Team Med in Italy (Italy)

The distribution of points is shown in the graphic Total scoring SDE 2012. The French contribution Canopea with the project manager Christophe de Tricaud achieved first place in the subcontests Architecture, Comfort Conditions, House Functioning and Innovation and thus achieved the overall victory. The entry Patio 2.12 from Spain achieved first place in the areas of energy efficiency, electrical energy balance and communication and social awareness and thus overall second place in the competition. Team Med from Italy achieved first place in the sustainability category and third place overall.

Participant of the SDE 2012
Germany	Netherlands	France	Norway	Denmark	Japan	China	Spain
HTWG Konstanz - Team Ecolar , RWTH Aachen - Team Counter Entropy	Delft University of Technology	École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Grenoble - Team RHONE ALPES, Arts et Metiers ParisTech Bordeaux	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Technical University of Denmark	Chiba University	Tongji University	Team Andalucia Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Universidad del País Vasco (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea) University of CEU Cardinal Herrera
Romania	Hungary	Egypt	Italy	Great Britain	Portugal	Brazil
Team Bucharest 2012	Budapest University of Technology and Economics	American University of Cairo	Team Rome - Med in Italy	London Metropolitan University	Universidade do Porto	Team Brasil