Mission Lead: 105 Solar Decathlon Team Tackles Zero-Energy Building Designs | News

University teams from 29 states and 18 countries will compete in the Solar Decathlon 2024 Design Challenge

Designing high-performance, zero-energy buildings, 105 teams from 93 collective organizations are leading the charge to address climate change as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon program.^® Design Challenge 2024.

“Creating affordable, energy-efficient solutions for buildings nationwide is key to achieving U.S. decarbonization goals,” said Holly Jameson Carr, director of Solar Decathlon. “Hundreds of students from around the world are set to face this challenge firsthand this year as they participate in the Department of Energy’s longest-running group competition.”

The Design Challenge encourages collective student teams to create highly efficient, low-carbon building designs that address issues related to climate resilience, embodied carbon, retrofits to existing buildings, community impact, and more.

• As part of the Solar Decathlon 2024 Design Challenge, students will create designs for new or existing buildings in one of four categories: single-family housing, attached housing, multifamily building, or educational building.
• Discover the map of participating teams To see if your alma mater or nearby college will compete!
• This year’s teams represent 18 countries and 29 U.S. states, with 26 new and 67 returning institutions.

Welcome to this year’s competitors!

• Al Hussein Technical University – Amman, Jordan
• Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Eko, Nigeria
• Appalachian State University – Boone, North Carolina
• Ariel University – Ariel, Israel
• Arizona State University – Tempe, Arizona
• Arkansas State University – Jonesboro, Arkansas
• Ball State University – Muncie, Indiana
• Brigham Young University – Provo, Utah
• Carnegie Mellon University – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Clark Atlanta University – Atlanta, Georgia
• College of the Valleys — Santa Clarita, California
• Concordia University – Montreal, Quebec
• Dartmouth College – Hanover, New Hampshire
• Fitchburg State University – Fitchburg, Massachusetts
• Georgia Institute of Technology – Atlanta, Georgia
• Howard University – Washington, DC
• Illinois Institute of Technology – Chicago, Illinois
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay – Mumbai, India
• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur – Kharagpur, India
• Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis – Indianapolis, Indiana
• Iran University of Science and Technology – Tehran, Iran
• Istanbul Technical University – Istanbul, Türkiye
• Kent State University – Kent, Ohio
• Mississippi State University – Mississippi State, Mississippi
• Missouri University of Science and Technology – Rolla, Missouri
• Monash University – Clayton, Australia
• Myungji University – Seoul, South Korea
• National University of Science and Technology – Islamabad, Pakistan
• Navajo Technical University — Crown Point, New Mexico
• New York City College of Technology – Brooklyn, New York
• North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University – Greensboro, North Carolina
• Northeastern University – Boston, Massachusetts
• Northwestern University – Evanston, Illinois
• Oklahoma State University – Stillwater, Oklahoma
• Pennsylvania College of Technology – Williamsport, Pennsylvania
• Purdue University – West Lafayette, Indiana
• Queen’s University – Kingston, Ontario
• San Francisco State University – San Francisco, California
• Southeastern University – Nanjing, China
• State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry – Syracuse, New York
• Syracuse University – Syracuse, New York
• Tehran University of Arts – Tehran, Iran
• Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Arts – New York City, New York
• Pennsylvania State University – University Park, Pennsylvania
• University of Alabama – Tuscaloosa, Alabama
• University of Arizona – Tucson, Arizona
• University of British Columbia – Vancouver, British Columbia
• University of British Columbia Okanagan – Kelowna, British Columbia
• University of Chicago – Chicago, Illinois
• University of Melbourne – Melbourne, Australia
• University of Oklahoma – Norman, Oklahoma
• University of Texas at Austin – Austin, Texas
• Thompson Rivers University – Kamloops, British Columbia
• Truckee Meadows Community College – Reno, Nevada
• Tuskegee University — Tuskegee, Alabama
• Anahuac University – Mexico City, Mexico
• National University of Engineering – Lima, Peru
• University of Islamic Sciences Malaysia – Nilai, Malaysia
• Petronas University of Technology – Seri Iskandar, Malaysia
• Universiti Malaysia Sabah – Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
• University of California Los Angeles – Los Angeles, California
• University of California, Santa Barbara – Santa Barbara, California
• University of California, Riverside — Riverside, California
• University of Canterbury – Christchurch, New Zealand
• University of Central Florida – Orlando, Florida
• University of Cincinnati – Cincinnati, Ohio
• University of Colorado Boulder – Boulder, Colorado
• University of Ferrara – Ferrara, Italy
• University of Florida – Gainesville, Florida
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – Urbana, Illinois
• University of Missouri – Columbia, Missouri
• University of New Hampshire – Durham, New Hampshire
• University of North Texas – Denton, Texas
• University of Oregon – Eugene, Oregon
• University of San Francisco – San Francisco, California
• University of Tehran – Tehran, Iran
• University of Tennessee at Chattanooga – Chattanooga, Tennessee
• University of the District of Columbia – Washington, D.C
• University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg – Johannesburg, South Africa
• University of Victoria – Victoria, British Columbia
• University of Washington – Seattle, Washington
• University of Washington Tacoma – Tacoma, Washington
• University of Waterloo – Waterloo, Ontario
• Vermont State University – Williston, Vermont
• Virginia Commonwealth University – Richmond, Virginia
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University – Blacksburg, Virginia
• Washington University in St. Louis – St. Louis, Missouri
• Wentworth Institute of Technology – Boston, Massachusetts
• West Virginia University – Morgantown, West Virginia
• Western New England University – Springfield, Massachusetts
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute — Worcester, Massachusetts
• Yeditepe University – Istanbul, Türkiye
• York University – Toronto, Ontario

The 2024 Design Challenge teams will present their zero-energy building designs in a virtual semifinal event in February 2024. The finalist teams will compete in a final competition event judged by industry experts in April 2024, which will be hosted at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. , with default sharing options available.

Additional details are available on the Solar Decathlon website.