SURE HOUSE

In the shadows of Manhattan, Stevens Institute of Technology students in red hats size up, saw and sand their way to building their sustainable and resilient or SURE HOUSE.

“It’s being built mostly out of everyday building materials,” said Construction Manager Chris Hamm.

It’s for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon 2015 for universities. Twenty teams tasked with building solar-powered houses that are affordable, attractive, easy to live in and energy efficient.

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Things are heating up at the Griffith Building of Stevens Institute of Technology. It is here, right along the banks of the Hudson River, where a multidisciplinary team of Stevens students is intensely working on construction of the SURE HOUSE – the Stevens 2015 entry house that will compete in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Decathlon in Irvine, California October 8-18, 2015.

Directly inspired by Hurricane Sandy’s devastating impact on the New Jersey-New York coastline, Stevens’ third consecutive entry in the biannual competition addresses the growing need for sustainable, resilient homes for coastal communities. With the Earth Day holiday approaching on April 22, the Stevens Solar Decathlon team offered a progress report of the SURE HOUSE.

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