The Home of the Future

Take a look inside reACT, the University of Maryland team’s entry in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon competition.

From October 5–15, 2017, the Solar Decathlon challenges student teams to design and build solar-powered homes. These innovative Terps traveled to Denver to showcase their sustainable, energy-efficient home of the future.

Published October 5, 2017

News Story

The Home of the Future

Related Stories

UMD Solar Decathlon Team Takes 1st Place in the U.S., 2nd Place...

UMD's reACT Represents at the Smithsonian's Earth Optimism...

Rubloff Co-Authors Major DoE Report on Emerging Energy...

Moldable Wood from Water ‘Shock’ Process

Das publishes new work in ACS Nano

Expanded Wood Fiber for High-Performance Solid-State Paper...

Michael Fu part of NSF project to improve kidney transplant...

Alumna Project Manager for NASA’s First Mission to Study...

Newly-Opened SMART Building to Spur Autonomy Research

Bentley Granted SBE Award for Excellence in Biochemical...

Min Wu Elected President of IEEE Signal Processing Society

Mohammad Hafezi Named 2021 APS Fellow

USMSM Debuts SMART Innovation Center