05-29-2009, 07:21 AM
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Wes,
They built them at their own universities, transported them, and the reassembled them. This particular one had almost $400K in transportation and related costs (people have been lumping that all in together with the actual cost of the house).
The scoring was actually really complicated - they took measurements and assigned point values for staying within certain temperature ranges at various points during the day. They also had to cook meals for 3 different judging teams, showers were used and water pressure and temp had to be maintained, along with a bunch of other things. I suspect that some of our houses would not pass the tests that these solar ones had to go through.
Steve
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