[1ntCobra]

Hmm, just taking a quick look at the website, this seems like a student project for a competition that was given to the department of parks and recreation after the competition was done? Perhaps nobody was really interested in it after the competition. You would think there would be some sort of university interest in monitoring the thing for energy efficiency. Don't you think if they had someone go out and visit the house on a daily basis that burst pipes would be noticed before the floor collapse?

Well the pipes can burst in a normal house in the winter when a heater fails. A normal house can burn down, be destroyed by a tornado or be vandalized too. Why do they need funding to fix this? Did somebody forget to purchase insurance on the building?