{"658039":{"#nid":"658039","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Team Wins Solar Decathlon","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech student team, \u0026quot;English Avenue Yellow Jackets\u0026quot;, is the 2022 Design Challenge Residential Division Grand Winner for the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/articles\/doe-celebrates-20th-annual-solar-decathlon-next-generation-clean-energy-buildings\u0022\u003EDepartment of Energy\u0026#39;s Solar Decathlon\u003C\/a\u003E. They also took home first place in the contest\u0026#39;s new Retrofit Housing division. Their winning entry retrofitted a 102-year-old house in Atlanta\u0026#39;s English Avenue neighborhood.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;The target was to retrofit an existing house to net zero,\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp;Aayushi Mody, the team lead said. \u0026quot;And, well, we exceeded the target by making it net positive. The house basically generates more energy than it utilizes.\u0026quot; But, Mody explained, that\u0026#39;s just the beginning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to a net positive retrofit, the English Avenue Yellow Jackets provided solutions for rainwater harvesting and graywater reuse, a financial model that included land trust subsidies, and an additional 60 years\u0026#39; worth of projected weather data that proved the house would stay net positive even in cases of extreme weather.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arch.gatech.edu\/feature\/solar-decathlon\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EFull Story...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech student team, \u0026quot;English Avenue Yellow Jackets\u0026quot;, is the 2022 Design Challenge Residential Division Grand Winner for the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/articles\/doe-celebrates-20th-annual-solar-decathlon-next-generation-clean-energy-buildings\u0022\u003EDepartment of Energy\u0026#39;s Solar Decathlon\u003C\/a\u003E. They also took home first place in the contest\u0026#39;s new Retrofit Housing division. Their winning entry retrofitted a 102-year-old house in Atlanta\u0026#39;s English Avenue neighborhood.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Georgia Tech student team, \u0022English Avenue Yellow Jackets\u0022, is the 2022 Design Challenge Residential Division Grand Winner for the Department of Energy\u0027s Solar Decathlon."}],"uid":"27338","created_gmt":"2022-05-09 16:27:08","changed_gmt":"2022-05-09 16:49:57","author":"Brent Verrill","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-05-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-05-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"658040":{"id":"658040","type":"image","title":"2022 Georgia Tech Solar Decathlon Team","body":null,"created":"1652114633","gmt_created":"2022-05-09 16:43:53","changed":"1652114633","gmt_changed":"2022-05-09 16:43:53","alt":"Group photo of the winning 2022 Solar Decathlon team.","file":{"fid":"249438","name":"GT_SolarDecathlon_Team_2022.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/GT_SolarDecathlon_Team_2022.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/GT_SolarDecathlon_Team_2022.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":712794,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/GT_SolarDecathlon_Team_2022.jpg?itok=5nHRtS8m"}}},"media_ids":["658040"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5RXF__r9v2I\u0026t=89s","title":"English Avenue Yellow Jackets Pitch Video"}],"groups":[{"id":"244191","name":"Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"137","name":"Architecture"},{"id":"179355","name":"Building Construction"},{"id":"142","name":"City Planning, Transportation, and Urban Growth"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"179356","name":"Industrial Design"}],"keywords":[{"id":"14891","name":"Georgia Tech\u0027s Solar Decathlon Team"},{"id":"80361","name":"net zero energy housing"},{"id":"167177","name":"School of Architecture"},{"id":"188360","name":"go-bbiss"},{"id":"186858","name":"go-sei"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ann.hoevel@design.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EAnn Hoevel\u003C\/a\u003E, Director of Communications, College of Design\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["ann.hoevel@design.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}