- …To be continued
The film about Team DTU and the FOLD project is out on the TV, and the first half of the film was shown on the Danish channel DR K last Sunday. If you haven't seen it yet you can watch it online here. Watch the second half of the film this Sunday a...
- Team DTU receiving Blue Dot Project awards
Team DTU is proud to announce that the project for Solar Decathlon competition is among the five Blue Dot Projects celebrated today at DTU campus. This initiative was set up by the Technical University of Denmark to encourage its students in taking ini...
- The film about Team DTU is out
What is it like to create a plus-energy house of the future? Turn on DR-K channel of the Danish television on Sunday April 14th, where at 13.00 the first part of the film about Team DTU will be shown as a part of the Academy of the Danes (Danskernes Ak...
- Solar Decathlon competition is over, leaving experience and knowledge for the teams
Solar Decathlon Europe 2012 competition will be over today. Villa Solar is open for the last day on this sunny Sunday, and the final awards have been announced yesterday. Tomorrow we will start disassembling FOLD!
The ceremony yesterday gather...
- Sponsor visit to FOLD at Villa Solar: Rockwool
On September 17th Team DTU had a pleasure to receive several guests from Rockwool, one of our sponsors. The company provided the team with insulation materials, finance and know-how. The super-thin façade of FOLD is insulated with a novelty from Rockw...
- Martin Vigild, Dansk Byggeri and Wissenberg visit FOLD
Presenting FOLD to guests is a pleasure, and yesterday we received several visits from Denmark: from The Technical University of Denmark, Dansk Byggeri – The Danish Construction Association, and Wissenberg.
In the afternoon Martin Vigild, th...
- VIP visit to FOLDVIP visit to FOLDVIP visit to FOLD
On September 18th Team DTU had a pleasure to receive a visit from the CEO of Schneider Electric in Denmark Ole Sander, the CEO of DI Energibranchen Hans Peter Slente, the Vice President of Dansk Energi Anders Stouge and the Deputy Permanent Secretary o...
- Le Monde and Les Echos visit to FOLD organized by Schneider Electric
On a sunny morning on September 18th we had a pleasure to receive a visit from Le Monde and Les Echos publications organized by the French division of Schneider Electric. Liza Andersen and two other employees from Schneider Electric accompanied the jou...
- Preparing for the juries with Dalia SafirPreparing for the juries with Dalia SafirPreparing for the juries with Dalia Safir
Jury presentations started this week: Team DTU has to show off FOLD. Six different jury presentations address the ten contests of the Solar Decathlon competition, and the team members know that content and delivery go hand in hand, when the aim is to i...
- Tell about FOLD
The first weekend of public tours is over - we have received many guests and expect more to come during the upcoming opening times! We offer both tours in English and in Spanish, and are happy to say that we have received both Spanish and international...
- Final touch before opening
Tomorrow is an important day - the official opening ceremony of Solar Decathlon Europe 2012 competition!
There are many guests invited to the ceremony: ambassadors, officials, press, sponsors. Teams will be there as well, and the organizers will take ...
- FOLD assembly continues - with the supervision from sponsors
It's Monday and the eleventh day of construction. FOLD looks close to ready, but there are still a lot of tasks to complete regarding installations, control systems, interior and the exterior decoration.Team DTU starts the morning shift at 7 a.m. - oth...
- Awareness impact that lasts beyond the competition time
Today the film crew from our partner Filmbureauet arrived to Madrid to stay for several days and continue making the film about Team DTU, now at Villa Solar. This film has multiple purposes and is aimed at creating a greater impact - that will span far...
- Success goes along with team work
It is Day 7 of FOLD construction at Villa Solar, and there are only 8 days left until the official opening of the competition! Today we continued working on exterior cladding, preparing all the electrical installations and sealing the glass facades.
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- Looking around at Villa Solar
The work on assembling FOLD continues in three shifts: from early mining until late in then night. Today we focused on the installation of glass facades, electrical connections and many other tasks that need to be done to get all the technical installa...
- Warm welcome
Today Villa Solar looks much more like the exhibition of the houses of the future: most of them took their shape! But there is still a lot of contraction work to do, and Team DTU is working in three shifts to keep up with the schedule.
We have...
- Countdown is on!
On September 13th Solar Decathlon Europe will officially open to the public! Yesterday the teams started assembling the houses for the competition, and we are to finish by September 12th: an exciting and challenging task.
FOLD has grown a lot ...
- Un-FOLDing
Already in one week Team DTU members will be arriving to Madrid to take care of preparing FOLD for the competition period in Villa Solar!
In the meantime FOLD is being disassembled: it is divided into elements that are packed in trailers and s...
- Leap toward Madrid
We have submitted the Deliverable #6 - submission of documentation about the house and the project progress to the organizing committee. As this is the last deliverable before the competition, the submitted documents will be used by the Jury to evaluat...
- ONE month left!
We have been waiting for this nearly two years: in ONE month FOLD will be presented to public in Madrid! The exhibition space Villa Solar prepared by Solar Decathlon Europe 2012 is located in Casa de Campo de Madrid , close to Puerta del Angel metro st...
- FOLD found a sidekick
Much as an exhibition is self-sufficient in presenting itself it interacts with the surroundings - and this is certainly the case for the FOLD exhibition in Kulturværftet in Helsingør carefully set up by Lise and Stine from the architecture and desig...
- Planning is the key
August is approaching, and it means that quite soon FOLD will be disassembled and brought to Madrid to compete with 19 other projects in Villa Solar. For the team it means that it is necessary to finalize the planning for its disassembly, transportatio...
- Preparing for the upcoming submission to the competition committee
Throughout participation in the Solar Decathlon Europe 2012 competition each of the 20 teams submits regular Deliverables, which include information regarding each of the 10 contests of the competition about the project developed by the team. The next ...
- FOLD exhibition and testing of the systems
Time to review the latest activities in the team this week!
The entrance to FOLD was closed during the week due to experiments with heating and cooling systems. They will continue throughout next week to be finalised the week after. The testin...
- Testing of heating and cooling systems at FOLD
Last week has been full of activities despite the vacation time here, and this post will tell you more about them. In order to see the latest pictures from FOLD see our Photo stream and Gallery.
First of all, electrical installations and wirin...
- Companies visit FOLD: Schneider Electric
Since the finishing of FOLD construction Team DTU has been pleased to receive a lot of attention and visits. Last week we have received several companies, and on Friday June 29 Schneider Electric, one of our sponsors, visited FOLD.
Schneider E...
- School pupils impressed by FOLDSkoleelever imponerede over FOLDSchool pupils impressed by FOLD
Version in Danish below
On Thursday June 14th 30 pupils from 7th grade from Trongård School and Lundtofte School came under the roof of FOLD. The Department of Civil Engineering at DTU was in charge of the event, and used the opportunity to tell ...
- FOLD attracted large interest from the public
On Saturday June 16th DTU opened its doors for the public to come and see the plus-energy house designed by the students named FOLD. This is a plus-energy house that uses solar panels to produce energy, and the amount produced exceeds the consumed amou...
- DTU invites to the Open Day at FOLD on June 16th
DTU opens its doors for the Open Day at FOLD on Saturday June 16th, from 14 to 17 to present its take on the future of sustainable building construction.
Since February 2011 Team DTU has been working on its FOLD project - the plus-energy house...
- Minister Martin Lidegaard comes to DTU to cut the ribbon celebrating FOLD completion
Yesterday Team DTU and its sponsors, such as Grundfos, Rockwool, Schneider Electric and Uponor, celebrated the completion of FOLD construction - Rejsegilde in Danish. The minister of climate, energy and building construction Martin Lidegaard came to gi...
- Press visit to FOLD and the process of installing the solar panels
This week FOLD has a lot of visitors, and more will come next week! Today, Friday 8th, is an important day for the construction process - the solar panels are being put up. The crew from Filmbureauet came to film this process and interview one of the...
- Putting up the glass facades and preparing solar panels
It's Friday and time to review the past week of Team DTU! This week we were very active at the construction site, and FOLD started to look more and more like it is on the renders. On Wednesday we moved the scaffolding that was surrounding FOLD to inst...
- Deliverable #5 is submitted and reportage about Team DTU is published
Today 17.00 - deadline for the Deliverable #5 to Solar Decathlon Organising committee. All the reports are uploaded, project drawings and specifications neatly packed according to their order of submission, press release with the pictures attached to ...
- Weekly update: FOLD construction in progress
Are you wondering what this grey block on the picture is? This is the material that will give FOLD extra glass look together with the large glass facades. Yesterday Team DTU met for a weekly Monday meeting, and the exterior cladding was one of the p...
- Presenting FOLD to HM The Queen Margrethe II
On Friday, April 27th, the Technical University of Denmark held its annual celebration honoring the attainment of doctoral academic level and presenting awards for other academic achievements. The celebration, Årsfest, gathered over 4,000 visitors, ...
- Past week update: construction planning, finalizing technical installations and managing safety risks
Start of FOLD construction brought a change into Team DTU - now that most of the decisions regarding the house planning are made we are focusing directly on the construction tasks. Therefore, the Monday meeting was dedicated to discussing the construc...
- Past week: start of FOLD construction, team film and first aid course
Another week full of activities for Team DTU is over! The week started with the First Aid workshop on Monday for the members that will be taking care of the health and safety issues during the competition period in Madrid. The workshop was very well ...
- Past week: construction drawings, new gallery and more
Another week has passed and it is time to see what has been going on with FOLD project! Monday was a state holiday in Denmark, so we did not meet for a regular meeting. Nevertheless, many of the team members were dedicating their time to the tasks rela...
- Holidays start and we are taking down FOLD mock-up
Today is the start of Easter holidays, and many of the team members went traveling or just back home to see their families. It is great to have some rest after the intense period we had lately! Two important workshops last week, on the technical core o...
- Workshop on technical installations
Today the morning is dedicated to working on the technical elements of FOLD. At the center of the house is its technical core, which contains all the technical installations and serves as the lung of the house. It is not a part of the FOLD itself, and...
- Social event in Malmö
Saturday morning, 10 a.m. - team members are standing under the clock at the Central Station. Despite the nice sunny spring days during the week, thick fog covered Copenhagen. We can only hope that it will fade away during the day. But the mood is very...
- Summary of Tuesday workshop: control systems, solar panel mounting and much more
The team workshop today brought together members working with different tasks. Each group could present their progress and get feedback from other students, as well as the faculty supervisors and sponsors.
Workshop was divided into two main pa...
- Monday meeting: deciding on glass facade elements
Glass facades are one of the most prominent design solutions of FOLD. But they are also a challenging task for the team! Monday's lunch meeting gathered team members around the drawings of alternative glass elements iterations. Combining those glass fr...
- Week overview: getting settled on geometry and film production
It's a Friday afternoon and time to sum up the week! The main challenge at discussion this week has been the finalization of all geometry elements of FOLD. During the Monday meeting, members responsible for setting the geometry presented two main alter...
- New week has started: past week update
The agenda for the team lunch meeting today is set pretty tight, as we need to make several final decisions regarding the enhancement of FOLD geometry. Moreover, it is the time for all task forces to work on resolving any problems that can result from ...
- Morten Østergaard visits the house of the future
This Thursday Team DTU received Morten Østergaard, the minister for research, innovation and higher education. The minister came together with other officials to see the FOLD mock-up and speak with the students about the competition and what the par...
- Tomorrow Morten Østergaard will be visiting FOLD mock-up
Tomorrow morning the minister for research, innovation and higher education Morten Østergaard will visit the FOLD mock-up in the campus workshop in relation to his visit to the Technical University of Denmark.
This is really rewarding for the team t...
- Sum up of the past week
Spring has truly come to Copenhagen, and while enjoying the sunny days Team DTU has also been doing a lot of progress!
The group responsible for the planning of health and safety elements of the project met on Monday and divided the tasks to b...
- Team DTU at Open Door Day of Technical University of Denmark
Tomorrow on March 1st, the Technical University of Denmark will open its doors to everyone who would like to learn more about the educational programs it offers. The Open Door Day, or Åbent Hus in Danish, will take place from 12.00 to 18.00.
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- Safety planning for assembling FOLD in Madrid and preparation for the upcoming Open Door Day
New week has started, and the Monday lunch meeting has once again gathered students working on different aspects of FOLD. This time the discussion was centered around the schedule of construction in Madrid. When FOLD will be transported to Madrid in ...
