LOD Planner supports the Solar Decathlon!

The Solar Decathlon is a competition challenging collegiate teams to design and build houses powered exclusively by the sun.

The winner is the team scoring the most points in 10 contests.

Teams must show the best blend of architectural and engineering excellence.

They must also blend innovation, market potential, building efficiency, and smart energy production.

LOD Planner is extremely excited to provide koeb with the best BIM planning software to help meet this challenge.

The pressure is high:

Design a building using innovative technologies and a mix of modern and reclaimed materials. Focus on interior comfort, four-seasons design, and architectural quality.

Managing a multi-disciplinary team in this fully BIM based project will certainly be rewarding.

These teams have been selected to compete:

University of Brighton, United Kingdom
Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, Romania
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Universidad Politécnica Catalunya, Spain
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Ghent University, Belgium
International Hellenic University, Greece
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture et de Paysage de Lille, France
University of Maryland, U.S.A.
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
University of Miskolc, Hungary
Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand
University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, Netherlands
Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

These teams are not just looking for a nice BIM render or just a better solar study or just a more advanced BIM coordination approach or just better BIM quantities or just an Owner’s BIM asset model – they are looking for all of this… and much, much more!

The koeb team will use LOD Planner software to reduce the administration burden yet also retain a clear understanding of the exact scope requirements and team member’s responsibilities. The teams will be competing in these 10 contests: