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Eco Factor: Solar-powered home designed for Solar Decathlon competition. While most of the 20 participants who will be competing in the Solar Decathlon competition to be held early next month are relying on flat solar panels, Penn State...

Eco Factor: Prototype house generates more solar energy than it consumes. Students from the Boston Architectural College (BAC) and Tufts University have completed their green home for the upcoming Solar Decathlon competition, which will be one of..

Eco Factor: Green home runs on solar power. After working for two years on a home that gets powered by solar energy, students at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette have finally unveiled their solar-powered home designed for the Solar...

Eco Factor: House powered by solar energy developed by student team at Santa Clara University. The biannual Solar Decathlon competition will be held this year in October. Universities from around the globe are trying out their ecofriendly home...

Eco Factor: Net zero-energy home gets powered by rooftop solar panels, harvested rain and gray water. This year’s Solar Decathlon competition has kept universities craving for the next-gen technology that can be integrated into smart homes of...

Eco Factor: Sustainable house powered by solar energy. The fourth Solar Decathlon is going to be held in October this year and participants have already tied their belts to develop the most fascinating solar home that could revolutionize the...

A 1400 square foot house, complete with 3 bedrooms and 3 baths consumes no electricity at all and cools with ice made from sun! This piece of imagination has been made believable by a team of students at the University of Colorado (CU). As a..

(Photo: Capital News Service/Megan Hartley) Architecture has always been inspiring students to go innovative with booming technology, but how many of them have even been environmentally-conscious while planning their projects? It's not a many lot...