Press Release - March 2 2011 - DTU Solar Decathlon Europe 2014

Press Release - March 2 2011
List of team members
Communications Coordinator
Ulrik Eggert Knuth-Winterfeldt
BEng
Construction Manager
Nikolaj Nørregård Rasmussen BEng, student
Contest Captain
Søren Andersen
Faculty Advisor
Bjarne W. Olesen
Fire Watch Captain
Kristian Dahl Hertz
Director, Professor, Ph.D.
Head of section, Professor, Ph.D.
Health and Safety Officer
Kurt Kielsgaard Hansen
Instrumentation Contact
Angela Simone
BEng, student
Associate Professor
Project Architect
Erik Folke Holm-Hansson
Anders Munck
Teresa Surzycka
Post doc
BEng, student
Architect, External Associate professor
Architect, External Associate professor
Project Engineer
Toke Rammer Nielsen
MSc Eng, Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Project Manager
Lotte Bjerregaard Jensen
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Assistant Project Manager
Ulrik Eggert Knuth-Winterfeldt
BEng
Sponsorship Manager
Linette Bodilsen
Lotte Bjerregaard Jensen
Bjarne W. Olesen
BEng, student
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Director, Professor, Ph.D.
B.Eng, student
Student Team Leader
Linette Bodilsen
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List of team members
Structural Engineer
Henrik Almegaard
Miscellaneous Team Members
Svend Svendsen
Martin Etchells Vigild
Michael Havbro Faber
Christian Anker Hviid
Jakob Bjørn Strømann-Andersen Martin Vraa Nielsen
Jacob Steen Møller
Michael Jørgensen
Msc Eng. Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Professor, Ph.D.
Dean of studies
Head of Department (Civil Engineering)
MSc. Eng. Ph.D.
Ph.D. student
Ph.D. student
Director of campus facilities
Ph.D. student
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Project discription
In the initial phase, we focused on promoting Solar Decathlon Europe 2012 (SDE) in
general and Team DTU in particular and realizing the plans for curriculum integration.
In the following, the most significant steps in the expansion of the SDE will be outlined.
It is important to establish a simple and clear common ground. This basic design strategy was communicated to the courses and projects involved. It is, in short, to focus on
energy reduction by passive means and the employment of integrated energy design as
expressed in TASK 23.
Currently two courses work with solar decathlon projects. This will result in 7 complete
Solar Decathlon proposals developed by 28 students in 4 person teams (course 1198111982), and one more experimental work focusing on identifying the optimal interior
cladding system and structural system (course 11969). Furthermore, 3 bachelor thesis
focus on Solar Decathlon.
A general invitation to take part in the solar decathlon was issued to the entire campus.
The students can work - across fields of study - with SDE. They can either choose to
design an entire zero-energy house proposal as described above, or they can isolate a
relevant part in their on going project and present it in the solar decathlon context, at a
workshop March 19.
These ideas, components, partial proposals – along with the dedicated and entire house
projects will - be presented during the SDE Workshop on 19th March at DTU. Our strategy in this phase is to create a feeling of ownership for the solar decathlon in as many
students as possible. There is already a core group of students involved in SD at DTU but
the above-described process was initiated to invite and expand to maximum amount of
students. The students were invited by small pep talks in the beginning of specially chosen courses and by electronic means and introduction meetings after 17 pm. The key faculty members at Team DTU have worked hard to promote the SDE in connection with
lectures everywhere on campus. This provides a unique personal contact with course
leaders and students and an feedback that constantly help us develop the project.
The Workshop March 19 will motivate and inspire the involved students to create further interest in the SDE at DTU. Several national and international architectural and
engineering personalities will be present at the workshop, where they will give tips and
unique supervision to students’ ongoing solar decathlon relevant projects.
During spring, there will - almost - every week be lectures with exciting outside experts.
2 such lectures was already held including, one on ‘design for disassembly’ and one by a
PV manufacturer. These solar decathlon lectures are announced to students in the intranet group, DTU solar decathlon. It has currently 156 members.
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Project discription
In June, a three-week course is held where the involved students, meet can develop solar
decathlon ideas and the project further.
To get widespread interest in SDE off campus, Team DTU started collaboration with
Grøn Vision (Green Vision), a student organization promoting sustainability and green
technology. This collaboration is a great opportunity for knowledge sharing across universities and different areas of the country. Green vision has many activities during the
summer period at music festivals in Denmark (Roskilde Festival E.g.)
We created a Facebook page and a twitter profile. This allows all with interest in the project, to constantly stay updated with what’s happening in SDE and Team DTU.
Our latest initiative is to promote the project at DTU Open House and student events.
This provides an exclusive opportunity to inform future as well as current students about
the opportunities and benefits that comes with SDE and Team DTU.
The faculty members are working intensely on establishing sponsorship- agreements. PR
material has been developed for this purpose and positive response have been obtained
from 3 companies. At the same time foundations are approached by the top management at DTU (the Dean).
This project has developed in a positive way so far, and the interest in SDE and Team
DTU is increasing among the DTU course coordinators and students.. All related to
Team DTU are looking forward with excitement and great anticipation to the upcoming weeks, culminating with our mid-term workshop March 19, and enjoying this great
opportunity.
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Collaborating institutions and sponsoring companies
Currently we have a good dialogue with a number of Danish companies. So far, we
have had positive responses from Velux, Nilan and Sunsil.
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Project images
Selected pictures from the SDE work at DTU
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Selected drawings and sketches
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Group Photo
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