Annex 74 Publications

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  Factsheet: Competition & Living Lab Platform (PDF 0.31MB) 
  November 2019
  The Annex background is the success story of the Solar Decathlon. The Solar Decathlon is an international student competition based on an initiative of the U.S. Department of Energy started in 2000. In this competition, universities from all over the world are challenged to design, build and operate solar powered houses. It is the only student competition worldwide addressing the realization and performance assessment of buildings and not the design only. During the competition’s final phase, each interdisciplinary team assembles its house in a common Solar Village. The final phase includes a public exhibition, monitoring and 10 contests, the reason why the competition was named a "Decathlon". Thirteen competitions have been conducted up to the end of 2017 with eight took place in the US, three in Europe, one in China and one in Columbia. With the United Emirates and Morocco, two countries in hot climates will held competitions in near future.
• Solar Decathlon Europe – Energy Engineering Experiences and Perspectives for SDE 21 in Germany 
  June 2020
  Author: Karsten Voss
  Review on enrgy engineering in past SDE competitions togeter with an outlook on the perspectives for the next edition in 21. This edition will be first one directly stimulated by the Annex 74 work.
• Building Energy Competition & Living Lab Knowledge Platform 
  January 2019
  Editor: Karsten Voss, Susanne Hendel
  This knowledge platform is a major activity to secure the information, experiences and data from building energy competitions such as the Solar Decathlon and living labs worldwide. It adds to the Solar Decathlon US information system (http://solardecathlon.gov) and the individual websites of the events or living labs.
  
  The work on the platform is part of Annex 74 (http://annex74.iea-ebc.org) of the Energy in Buildings & Communities Programme of the International Energy Agency. The platform is based on a content management system and the use of standardized fact sheets to structure, filter and transfer information. All buildings of the competitions and living labs are detailed, documented and linked to an interactive map with the connected universities. The knowledge platform also serves as the central storage space for all competition documents, such as project manuals, drawings, publications, communications initiatives, pictures, reports, evaluations, scorings as well as detailed monitoring data.
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  The SOLAR DECATHLON Knowledge Platform – Concept and Application (PDF 0.53MB) 
  October 2018
  Author: Susanne Hendel
  Publisher: 12. EuroSun Conference International Conference on Solar Energy for Buildings and Industry, Rapperswil, Switzerland 2018
  The student competition Solar Decathlon (SD) is an established test case and platform to demonstrate and analyze approaches to energy efficiency and solar energy utilization in residential buildings. All available documents for the SD are stored in a newly launched online platform, which is the base for the analyses of the technologies applied. Information is stored in a unified way to allow an intensified use of the knowledge gathered from SD houses. The advantages of an integrated technology search function will be addressed by the paper.