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Solar Decathlon China SOLAR DECATHLON CHINA 中国国际太阳能十项全能竞赛组委会 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF SOLAR DECATHLON CHINA SOLAR DECATHLON Initiated by the U.S. Department of Energy, Solar Decathlon (SD) is an award-winning program that challenges collegiate teams to design, build and operate solar-powered houses that are cost-effective, energy- efficient, and attractive. qSolar During the competition, the operation of the houses will be solely powered by solar energy. qDecathlon The competition entries will be comprehensively assessed in ten independently scored contests. Solar Decathlon has expanded globally in the United States, China, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America & Caribbean HISTORY The first Solar Decathlon event was held in Washington D.C., U.S. in 2002. Since then, it has been influencing all governments of the world and obtaining support from enterprises and the public. The evidences include sponsors of more than 6,000 brand enterprises, all-out support from more than 100 governmental agencies and professional institutions, 3,000,000 visitors and 300 million media audiences. 2002 2005 2007 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Washington Washington Washington Washington Madrid, Washington Madrid, • Datong, Versailles, • Irvine, U.S. • Dezhou, • Szentendre, Washington DC, • Wuppertal, Denver, U.S. D.C., U.S. D.C., U.S. D.C., U.S. D.C., U.S. Spain D.C., U.S. Spain China France • Cali, Colombia China Hungary US Germany • Irvine, U.S. • Dubai, • Ben Guerir, • Zhangjiakou, UAE Morocco China SOLAR DECATHLON CHINA Solar Decathlon China (SDC) was introduced to China as an achievement of the China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogues. With the authorization of the U.S. Department of Energy, China Overseas Development Association forms SDC Organizing Committee to hold the competitions in China, supported by related departments, local governments and other major partners. The first & second SDC took place in Datong, Shanxi Province 2013 and Dezhou, Shandong Province in 2018 respectively. qMission SDC aims to create a workforce development and education program which can provide student architects, engineers, business majors, and communicators the opportunity to cooperate in designing and building sustainable housing projects that can respond to people’s daily realities and regional development. Solar Decathlon China 2013 Signing Ceremony INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY Energy in Buildings & Communities Programme (26 countries) Annex 74 Competition & Living Lab Platform http://annex74.iea-ebc.org 10 CONTESTS ARCHITECTURE MARKET APPEAL ENGINEERING COMMUNICATIONS INNOVATION COMFORT ZONE APPLIANCES HOME LIFE COMMUTING ENERGY SDC 2013 The first Solar Decathlon China was held in Datong, Shanxi Province in 2013. 37 universities and more than 1,000 college students from 13 countries took part in the whole design and construction. In addition, there were support and participation of more than 30 governmental agencies, more than 200 international institutions and the enterprises in relevant industries, as well as 260,000 visitors. PARTICIPATING UNIVERSITIES • The top finishers: • Inner Mongolia University of Technology (China) • University of Wollongong (Australia) • Alfred State College and Guilin University of Technology and Alfred University (China-United States) • South China University of Technology (China) • London Metropolitan University and Guangzhou Academy of Fine • Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) Arts (England-China) • The other participating teams: • Shandong Jianzhu University (China) • Tsinghua University and Florida International University • Shanghai Jiaotong University (China) (China-United States) • Southeast University (China) • Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Ghent University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Belgium- • Beijing Jiaotong University and Bern University of Applied Sciences United States) (China-Switzerland) • Abbaspour University of Technology (Iran) • New Jersey Institute of Technology and Harbin Institute of Technology (United States-China) • Peking University and University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign (China-United States) • Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (Malaysia) • Tel Aviv University, Shenkar College of Engineering and • Xiamen University (China) Design, Neri Bloomfield School of Design and Education, College of Management Academic Studies (Israel) • Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology (China) • Inner Mongolia University of Technology (China) • National University of Singapore (Singapore) Team Team Malaysia Team Tsinghua Team BEMANY PKUI vv Team Team London Sweden Team Singapore SDC 2013 Houses Team Shandong Team Team Alfred Guilin Team Israel Team SEU SCUT 9 SDC 2018 In 2018, the City of Dezhou in Shandong Province successfully hosted the second SDC event: 19 teams from 34 universities, 370 enterprises and 500,000 visitors. PARTICIPATING UNIVERSITIES • The top finishers: • McGill University and Concordia University (Canada) • South China University of Technology and Polytechnic • New Jersey Institute of Technology and Fujian University of Technology University of Turin (China-Italy) (United States-China) • Tsinghua University (China) • Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (India) • TIE: Southeast University and Technical University of • Shenyang Institute of Engineering (China) Braunschweig (China-Germany) AND Shandong University; • Shanghai Jiaotong University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Xiamen University; National Institute of Applied Sciences of (China-United States) Rennes; University of Rennes 1/Superior School of Engineering of Rennes; University of Rennes 2/Institute of • Hunan University (China) Management and Urbanism of Rennes; High School Joliot • Seoul National University; Sung Kyun Kwan University; AJOU University Curie of Rennes; Technical School of Compagnons du Devoir (Korea) of Rennes; European Academy of Art in Brittany (EESAB); National School of Architecture of Brittany; (China-France) • Shanghai University of Engineering Science (China) • The other participating teams: • Tongji University and Technical University of Darmstadt (China-Germany) • Beijing Jiaotong University (China) • University of Toronto; Ryerson University; Seneca College (Canada) • The University of Hong Kong (China) • University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China (China) • • College of Management Academic Studies (COMAS) Afeka Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri College (Israel) • Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology (China) • Istanbul Technical University; Istanbul Kültür University; Yildiz • Xi'an Jiaotong University and Western New England University (China-United Technical University (Turkey) States) • Yantai University and Illinois Institute of Technology (China-United States) HOUSES（2018） Dancing Sunlight Project Solarise Deep-Performance Dwelling Nature • Between C-house Qiju 2.0 Team SUES-XD Team Shunya Team Montreal Team JIA+ Team TUBSEU Team XAUAT • 130.56 m2 • 192.63 m2 • 192.00 m2 • 153.10 m2 • 145.50 m2 • 184.97 m2 • 387.40 kWh • https://teamshunya.i • http://www.teammtl • http://teamjia.xmu.e • https://www.tubseu. • https://www.sdcxau n .ca du.cn com/ at.com • -46.01 kWh • 16.12 kWh • 37.00 kWh • 30.97 kWh • 45.73 kWh HOUSES（2018） Waterside Cube i-Yard 2.0 Es-Block EnergyPLUS Home 4.0 R.E.A.L House LONG-PLAN Team SJTUIUC Team BJTU Team SIE Team TJU-TUDA Team Solar Offspring Team SCUT-POLITO • 169.24 m2 • 142.43 m2 • 170.98 m2 • 159.37 m2 • 136.65 m2 • 128.09 m2 • http://www.sjtuiuc2 • http://www.sdsie.co • http://www.sdsie.co • http://sdchina.tongji • http://www.solaroffs • http://www.sdchina 018.net m m .edu.cn pring.com 2017-scutpolito.com • 44.71 kWh • 29.48 kWh • 69.04 kWh • 385.96 kWh • 63.85 kWh • 39.19 kWh HOUSES（2018） (S)LOW House The SHU House The WHAO House Turtle Home The North Seal Residence New Energy Smart House Team B&R Team PKU Team THU Team XJTU-WNEU- Team YI Team CNBM-WIN • 146.16 m2 • 180.22 m2 • 144.00 m2 POLIMI • 145.28 m2 • 180.75 m2 2 • https://bjjzdx.ysweb • 311.32 kWh • http://www.whaoho • 151.20 m • http://www.sdc2017 • http://www.2018sd- portal.cc/col.jsp?id= use.com • http://www.xjtu- -ytu.com nes.com.cn 105 • 56.29 kWh wne.club • 54.23 kWh • -873.48 kWh • -147.44 kWh • 59.95 kWh JURY(2018) International jurors were invited to judge the competition entries Yunsheng Su-Director, Technical Zhen Yu-Director, High Performance Jianmin Meng-Academician, Chinese Development Department, Shanghai Building Research Center, China Academy of Engineering Tongji Urban Planning & Design Institute Academy of Building Research Xiaodu Liu-Principal Architect and Co- Wei He-Associate Professor, China Stephen Lau-Professor, National founder, URBANUS Architecture & Central Academy of Fine Arts University of Singapore Design Inc. Brian LEE Design Partner, Skidmore, Heng Liu-Principal Architect and Hailong Xu-IBM Director, Green Horizon Owings & Merrill LLP Founder, NODE Program, IBM Bruce LINDSEY-Professor, Washington Qing Ye-Director, Shenzhen Institute of Changhua Wu - Greater China Director University in St. Louis Building Research and Chair of the China Board, The Climate Group Luke LEUNG-Director, Sustainable Martin BECHTHOLD- Professor, Joseph SIMON-Competition Manager, Engineering, Skidmore, Owings & Architectural Technology, Harvard Solar Decathlon Merrill LLP Graduate School of Design Zhonggui Zhao-Partner, Zephyr (US) Volker HARTKOPF-Professor, Carnegie Architects P.C. Mellon University PARTICIPATING ENTERNPRISES (2018) SDC STATISTICS 41 teams 570+companies 80+ government offices 19 countries/regions
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