Success goes along with team work
It is Day 7 of FOLD construction at Villa Solar, and there are only 8 days left until the official opening of the competition! Today we continued working on exterior cladding, preparing all the...
View ArticleAwareness impact that lasts beyond the competition time
Today the film crew from our partner Filmbureauet arrived to Madrid to stay for several days and continue making the film about Team DTU, now at Villa Solar. This film has multiple purposes and is...
View ArticleFOLD assembly continues – with the supervision from sponsors
It’s Monday and the eleventh day of construction. FOLD looks close to ready, but there are still a lot of tasks to complete regarding installations, control systems, interior and the exterior...
View ArticleFinal touch before opening
Tomorrow is an important day – the official opening ceremony of Solar Decathlon Europe 2012 competition! There are many guests invited to the ceremony: ambassadors, officials, press, sponsors. Teams...
View ArticleSolar Decathlon competition is now open!
Final cleaning, preparations and arrangements in the morning – and the official opening ceremony took off at 12.30. It started with all teams posing for the group picture with the Spanish Minister for...
View ArticleWelcome to my house!
FOLD is standing ready in Villa Solar to receive the guests and the team wants to welcome each of the visitors – YOU too! – to our house. Every team member has been working on some particular aspect of...
View ArticleTell about FOLD
The first weekend of public tours is over – we have received many guests and expect more to come during the upcoming opening times! We offer both tours in English and in Spanish, and are happy to say...
View ArticlePreparing for the juries with Dalia Safir
Jury presentations started this week: Team DTU has to show off FOLD. Six different jury presentations address the ten contests of the Solar Decathlon competition, and the team members know that content...
View ArticleLe Monde and Les Echos visit to FOLD organized by Schneider Electric
On a sunny morning on September 18th we had a pleasure to receive a visit from Le Monde and Les Echos publications organized by the French division of Schneider Electric. Liza Andersen and two other...
View ArticleVIP visit to FOLD
On September 18th Team DTU had a pleasure to receive a visit from the CEO of Schneider Electric in Denmark Ole Sander, the CEO of DI Energibranchen Hans Peter Slente, the Vice President of Dansk Energi...
View ArticleMartin Vigild, Dansk Byggeri and Wissenberg visit FOLD
Presenting FOLD to guests is a pleasure, and yesterday we received several visits from Denmark: from The Technical University of Denmark, Dansk Byggeri – The Danish Construction Association, and...
View ArticleSponsor visit to FOLD at Villa Solar: Rockwool
On September 17th Team DTU had a pleasure to receive several guests from Rockwool, one of our sponsors. The company provided the team with insulation materials, finance and know-how. The super-thin...
View ArticleSolar Decathlon competition is over, leaving experience and knowledge for the...
Solar Decathlon Europe 2012 competition will be over today. Villa Solar is open for the last day on this sunny Sunday, and the final awards have been announced yesterday. Tomorrow we will start...
View ArticleThe film about Team DTU is out
What is it like to create a plus-energy house of the future? Turn on DR-K channel of the Danish television on Sunday April 14th, where at 13.00 the first part of the film about Team DTU will be shown...
View ArticleTeam DTU receiving Blue Dot Project awards
Team DTU is proud to announce that the project for Solar Decathlon competition is among the five Blue Dot Projects celebrated today at DTU campus. This initiative was set up by the Technical University...
View Article…To be continued
The film about Team DTU and the FOLD project is out on the TV, and the first half of the film was shown on the Danish channel DR K last Sunday. If you haven’t seen it yet you can watch it online here....
View Article…here we go again!
Now that the film about FOLD has been broadcasted on Danish National Television, the circle of Solar Decathlon 2012 is completed with success. It has been a wonderful experience for all team members,...
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DTU Team members participated in sb13 in Munich
The Solar Decathlon team DTU had the pleasure to send five of its members to attend the “SB 13: Implementing Sustainability – Barriers and Changes”, a sustainable buildings conference, held in Munich,...
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Taking inspiration
One cannot design a house in a completely closed process, without looking closely to what is successful or not around the world. The team has a lot to learn by simply keeping eyes opened and observing...
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New facebook page!
Our new facebook page for the Solar Decathlon 2014 has just been released! To access it, here is the way: facebook.com/teamDTU. You are of course more than welcome to follow it in order to keep updated...
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