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Article: Breaking ground at solar village UWM students erect building on National Mall
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 12, 2009
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By THOMAS CONTENT
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee architecture and engineering
students have erected one of 20 buildings in a solar village that
has risen on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Over the past two years, the students designed a small, energy-
efficient solar home on campus, as part of the Solar Decathlon
competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy.
After being built on campus, the home was taken down in pieces
and shipped to Washington, where it was put back together over the
past week.
UWM is one of 20 teams selected to compete in the Solar Decathlon
and is the first entrant in the competition from Wisconsin.
"We're excited about it," said Greg Thomson, ...