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Solar Decathlon Europe 2012 will celebrate in September in the House of Field of Madrid
07/10/2011
7 October 2011
Solar Decathlon Europe, the international competition of efficient and solar houses, that organises the Ministry responsible for public works, in collaboration with the Polytechnical University of Madrid, presented the new location in which it will celebrate the edition of 2012. The House of Field of Madrid will receive in September of the next year to the Solar Villa, in which the 20 teams participants will build his houses to real size. The change of location has to to the increase of the number of teams participants in the edition. For the event, have changed the geographic limitations of marry them participants with the aim to favour the employment of passive systems, like external zones in shadow. Like this, the useful surface of the houses has to have a rank between the 45 and the 70 square metres, duplicating at the same time the maximum occupation of the building until the 150 square metres. Also it has increased the height of the envolvente of the building to contribute greater flexibility in the design of the space, allowing the use of double heights, altillos or even his development in two plants.
One of the novelties of SDE2012 is the incorporation of the proof ‘Energy Efficiency', that groups in a same proof so much the global evaluation of the use of the energy in the house, like the particular study of the envolvente, the active systems, passive, the appliances, and the systems of control.
