“The hardest part has been the effects of the pandemic on supply chains,” said Weber about the challenges to his student team. Other members of the UNLV team were veterans of the U.S. UNLV Professor Eric Weber, the principal investigator from the UNLV School of Architecture, is a veteran of the Desert Storm conflict, where he served in the U.S. There are new playbooks in this climate fight: on energy efficiency, on renewable energy, modernizing the grid, de-carbonizing the building sector, de-carbonizing the transportation sector, and de-carbonizing the industrial sector.”ĭuring 2018, an interdisciplinary team of students at UNLV began the design and construction of Mojave Bloom, a high-performance home that could also serve as a nurturing shelter for returning military veterans who might be suffering from the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries. “We’ve got all these individual contests to get through like you did. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm during the awards ceremony.
“Our fight against the climate crisis is a lot like the decathlon,” said U.S. The UNLV team placed third in the contest, that was sponsored by the U.S. (Lonnie Timmons III UNLV Photo Services)Ī team of students and faculty from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas competed against eight other international university teams during a Solar Decathlon Build Challenge from April 16-18. The entry came in third place in the Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon competition. Architecture students Stephanie Cote and Danica Dasmarinas, center, help build Mojave Bloom, a high-performance home.
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