Archived copy — This is page is part of a snapshot of https://sunhome.mst.edu captured on December 31, 2025. Its contents may be out of date.
Archived copy — This is page is part of a snapshot of https://sunhome.mst.edu captured on December 31, 2025. Its contents may be out of date.
Solar House Team https://sunhome.mst.edu Just another Missouri S&T Sites site Sat, 20 Apr 2013 05:23:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.7 109857277 Master Picture Index https://sunhome.mst.edu/2007/12/03/master_picture_index/ Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:05:08 +0000 https://sunhome.wpblog.mst.edu/2007/12/03/master_picture_index/ I am trying to put together a master folder of all the pictures taken of our house before, during and after competition. If you have ANY pictures, please drop me an e-mail sunhome@mst.edu.
Thanks!
-Joe

]]> 117 University Name Change https://sunhome.mst.edu/2007/12/02/university_name_change/ Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:47:01 +0000 https://sunhome.wpblog.mst.edu/2007/12/02/university_name_change/ For anyone out there who doesn’t know, the university is changing from UMR to the Missouri University of Science and Technology or Missouri S&T for short.

To distinguish UMR from the other University of Missouri campuses; to reflect the university’s national mission; to broaden market share for the best students nationally, and to enhance the university’s reputation.

Effective immediately please know that all of our websites and e-mail address have changed from umr.edu to mst.edu. For the time being umr.edu will work, but is soon to be disabled.
sunhome@mst.edu
Main Website: http://solarhouse.mst.edu
Blog: http://sunhome.mst.edu

]]> 119 A Few Pictures https://sunhome.mst.edu/2007/10/31/a_few_pictures/ Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:01:11 +0000 https://sunhome.wpblog.mst.edu/2007/10/31/a_few_pictures/ Since we haven’t posted many pictures, here are a few that I took in Washington D.C.
This is an interior shot from the hall, looking toward the front door during construction on the National Mall. Each one of those windows on the curved "header" comes apart separately to ship the house.


This is a picture of the fully tiled walk-in shower. It even has a built-in seat.

Here is a picture at night still during the construction of the house.

One of the team members is explaining the Watts Radiant pump board during a tour. This board controls all the water in the house. It collects heat from the sun, heats the house by warming the floor with hot water, and also stores hot water for use by the sinks and appliances.

CNBC really liked our house, so they showed it on live TV and also interviewed the Secretary of Energy on our front porch!

This picture is when the entire team was live on CNBC! A couple even got to answer questions on live TV!

MSM-UMR alumni in the D.C. area all came to support the team. They even treated us to an awesome dinner.

Hope you enjoy looking at the pictures of the house… stay tuned for more as we put the house in it’s final resting place back in the UMR (soon to be Missouri S&T) Solar Village.
-Chris

]]> 106 Cost Per Square Foot https://sunhome.mst.edu/2007/10/24/cost_per_square_foot/ Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:41:09 +0000 https://sunhome.wpblog.mst.edu/2007/10/24/cost_per_square_foot/ What is the Cost per square foot of the 2007 solar house?
The cost of a marketable prototype of the UMR Solar House is approx. $200,000.
The foot print of the house is 800 square feet. That comes out to be $250/square foot.

]]> 120 The results are in https://sunhome.mst.edu/2007/10/19/the_results_are_in/ https://sunhome.mst.edu/2007/10/19/the_results_are_in/#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:31:29 +0000 https://sunhome.wpblog.mst.edu/2007/10/19/the_results_are_in/ The results came back. The UMR Solar House finished in eleventh place, quite a bit lower than we had hoped, but still an amazing feat. In the end the team worked hard, had fun and helped save the world. As they say everyone wins with this type of project.
We have started talking about what our 2009 house will look like. Stay tuned to find out more!


Darmstadt 1024.85 1
Maryland 999.807 2
Santa Clara 979.959 3
Penn State 975.432 4
Madrid 946.298 5
Georgia Tech 945.183 6
Colorado 943.369 7
Montreal 906.835 8
Illinois 886.956 9
Texas 877.503 10
Missouri-Rolla 869.179 11
NYIT 852.775 12
MIT 833.302 13
Carnegie Mellon 832.506 14
Cincinnati 830.865 15
Puerto Rico 819.502 16
Texas A&M 808.765 17
Kansas 807.049 18
Cornell 780.440 19
Lawrence Tech 691.350 20

]]> https://sunhome.mst.edu/2007/10/19/the_results_are_in/feed/ 1 101 Market Viability is in https://sunhome.mst.edu/2007/10/18/market_viability_is_in/ https://sunhome.mst.edu/2007/10/18/market_viability_is_in/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:03:44 +0000 https://sunhome.wpblog.mst.edu/2007/10/18/market_viability_is_in/ The results of market viability is in. UMR took 4th place. I guess the architects didn’t like the house, but the builders and real estate agents loved it!


1 Illinois 114.35
2 Maryland 112.50
3 Penn State 109.95
4 Missouri-Rolla 109.55
5 Darmstadt 107.50
6 Santa Clara 106.00
7 Texas A&M 102.15
8 Georgia Tech 101.45
9 Texas 101.20
10 Colorado 101.00
11 Lawrence Tech 100.35
12 Carnegie Mellon 97.000
13 NYIT 96.600
14 Cornell 96.100
15 Montreal 92.000
16 Cincinnati 87.750
17 Madrid 79.800
17 Puerto Rico 79.800
19 Kansas 77.300
20 MIT 70.700

]]> https://sunhome.mst.edu/2007/10/18/market_viability_is_in/feed/ 3 98 Village closed today https://sunhome.mst.edu/2007/10/17/village_closed_today/ Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:28:19 +0000 https://sunhome.wpblog.mst.edu/2007/10/17/village_closed_today/ Today the house was closed to the general public for competition purposes. Right now we are ahead on the amount of energy stored in our batteries from where we started on Monday. What does that mean? Good things. Tomorrow is supposed to be a cloudy day here, especially between 10-2pm, the best hours for collecting energy from the sun. We will continue to monitor the batteries. As competition continues teams will start to make strategic decisions on what should be done. Should we focus in on getting energy balance? Should we put the energy into the GEM and convert it to mileage for points? Should we compete in the lighting and appliance categories? Can we do everything? Tomorrow, I believe we may see a turning point of the competition.
The Solar Decathlon points battle on the National Mall continues to wage, but we are currently leading the Hot Water and Appliances portions of the event. We have yet to be judged on Energy Balance and the all-important (to us) Engineering, and the Comfort Zone, Lighting, and Getting Around events are judged throughout the week, so no points have yet been awarded in any of those categories. In the morning we will find out the results of the Market Viability Contest.


As of the time of this posting here are the scores as of this posting:
Hot Water
Rank Team Score
1 Missouri-Rolla 60.000
1 Texas 60.000
1 Santa Clara 60.000
1 Puerto Rico 60.000
1 Penn State 60.000
1 Kansas 60.000
1 Maryland 60.000
8 MIT 59.500
9 Darmstadt 57.700
10 NYIT 56.800
11 Georgia Tech 56.200
12 Texas A&M 50.000
12 Cincinnati 50.000
14 Montreal 47.900
15 Carnegie Mellon 46.500
16 Cornell 44.400
17 Colorado 41.000
18 Illinois 38.700
19 Madrid 38.100
20 Lawrence Tech 0.000
1 Missouri-Rolla 43.109
2 Texas A&M 43.006
3 Georgia Tech 41.487
4 Lawrence Tech 38.419
5 Santa Clara 38.090
6 Darmstadt 37.053
7 Penn State 33.949
8 Maryland 32.832
9 Madrid 31.234
10 Montreal 29.931
11 MIT 29.893
12 Kansas 29.686
13 Illinois 28.147
14 Cornell 27.872
15 Carnegie Mellon 27.723
16 Texas 27.137
17 Puerto Rico 26.839
18 Colorado 25.623
19 NYIT 24.266
20 Cincinnati 21.014

]]> 99 Thanks to all the friends of the UMR Solar House https://sunhome.mst.edu/2007/10/17/thanks_to_all_the_friends_of_t/ Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:03:33 +0000 https://sunhome.wpblog.mst.edu/2007/10/17/thanks_to_all_the_friends_of_t/ We would like to thanks all those who graciously contributed to our "Support a Square Foot" program. All the people on this list contributed $100-$499 to the project. If you or your organization wish to Support a Square Foot, please contact us at sunhome@umr.edu or post here!
Friends of the UMR Solar House:
2 Smart Chix LLC
A-1 Moving & Storage
Adam V. Tiehes
Al Heinbokel
Anderson & Associates
Andrew, Connor, and Nathan Dickens
Anesha McKinney
ANS Student Section of UMR
Arby and Helen Moore
Arnold P. Harness
Ashlee Welton
Ashley and James Guise
Brad and Jana Miller
Carpenter’s Local No. 2298
Chris Kruger
Citadel Properties LLC
Constance and Jordan Heiman
Cynthia K. Hobart
Dan and Jane Sudkamp
Dave Bryant
David Bollinger & Family
David Cotter
Dickison
Donald Higginbotham
Doug and Karla Carroll
Dr. Stuart Baur
Eta Kappa Nu
Fred R. Bunch – Attorney at Law
Gilbert D. Smith, M.D., LLC
Heartland Security
Herbert and Thelma Annis
Jaeques P Fransaw
Jerry Bayless
Jim Compton
Joe & Lynda’s Tater Patch
Joe Schaefer
Joel Lamson
John and Dorcas Park
Keith Corzine
Keller’s Rental Place
Kent W Lynn
Kreisler Drug Store
Lindsay Foundation
Lisa Battern
Lucas Sales
Marietta Burton Hiatt
Mark and Jonna Krueger
Mary Adams
Mary Emke
Medhi Ferdowsi
Michael R. Haney
Milton J. Murry
MiMi’s Café
MSM UMR Alumni Association
Nancy and Sam McCaughey
Nick Bristow
Patricia V. Gelner
Paul Hirtz
Paul Langenfeld
Peckham & Wright Architects, Inc.
Prasenjit & Swarnali
Rob Stone
Robert & Syndia Tucker
Robert and Cheryl McKay
Russel G. Wick, Jr.
Ryan Thortan
Scandura Family BSEE ’84
Sharone K. Pamiam
Steve Schnurbusch
Tau Beta Pi
Timothy P. Myers & Company
UMR IEEE-Student Branch
Valerie Nottage
William A. Stolz
William and Elizabeth Schluemer
William C. Dale, DMD
WM Snodgrass

]]> 100 CNBC Video https://sunhome.mst.edu/2007/10/13/cnbc_video/ https://sunhome.mst.edu/2007/10/13/cnbc_video/#comments Sat, 13 Oct 2007 13:06:31 +0000 https://sunhome.wpblog.mst.edu/2007/10/13/cnbc_video/ Here is the link to the video CNBC aired about our solar house.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=557097761&play=1
The counter tops that they refer to in this video are made by PaperStone and the solar/domestic hot water system she showcases is made by Watt’s Radiant.
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]]> https://sunhome.mst.edu/2007/10/13/cnbc_video/feed/ 1 97 And they’re off . . . https://sunhome.mst.edu/2007/10/13/and_theyre_off/ Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:31:48 +0000 https://sunhome.wpblog.mst.edu/2007/10/13/and_theyre_off/ Yesterday at 10 am we saw the opening ceremony of the decathlon. Today, marked the first day of competition. Bright and early today, we had our first round of tours for the jury: Market Appeal, Architecture and Communications. All three tours went well. It was good to be the first team to host all three of these juries. We should start to see the results of these catagories starting sometime Monday morning. The next round of competition, that we will see, will be on Monday when they take Comfort Zone, Appliances, Hot Water, Lighting, and Energy Balance measurements. Also on Monday, we will start getting mileage credit for the electric GEM car for the Getting Around competition.
Our house is currently open to public tours all day. The house will be open 10-5 on weekends and 11-3 on weekdays. Wednesday the house will closed so they can measure the temperature of the house in a controlled environment. There are early reports that there are 20,000-30,000 people on the national mall today. Be sure to check us out if you are in the D.C. area we are lot 109.
As far as weather, it is partly cloudy, mid 60s. A great day for making electricity and giving tours!

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