Comments on: Solar House Groundraising Tomorrow http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2007/350/ Helping imagine a great college town for a great university Fri, 25 Jan 2013 04:03:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Rob Goodspeed http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2007/350/comment-page-1/#comment-13889 Rob Goodspeed Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:04:35 +0000 http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2007/350/#comment-13889 I wonder how much repairs would have cost? Perhaps the city-university partnership could have allocated a portion of their $100,000 annual budget to preserving this unique example of student work. I wonder how much repairs would have cost? Perhaps the city-university partnership could have allocated a portion of their $100,000 annual budget to preserving this unique example of student work.

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]]> By: Robert Catlin http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2007/350/comment-page-1/#comment-13884 Robert Catlin Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:22:49 +0000 http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2007/350/#comment-13884 Perhaps the story we got was at odds with the facts. The Partnership's director told us that the Partnership could get the house to locate off campus after it waas removed from the mall. The next time we heard about the house we were told that it was so badly damaged when being dismantled that it couldn't be rebuilt. Stories and facts that don't match up - not exactly a rare occurance. Thanks for the information mp. Perhaps the story we got was at odds with the facts. The Partnership’s director told us that the Partnership could get the house to locate off campus after it waas removed from the mall. The next time we heard about the house we were told that it was so badly damaged when being dismantled that it couldn’t be rebuilt. Stories and facts that don’t match up – not exactly a rare occurance. Thanks for the information mp.

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]]> By: mp http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2007/350/comment-page-1/#comment-13881 mp Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:30:29 +0000 http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2007/350/#comment-13881 As a very active member of the first solar decathlon team, I must correct you, Robert. The house was built on campus, dismantled, and reassembled on the mall in three days. It was dismantled again and brought back to campus where it could have easily been reassembled in less than a week. The powers that be at the university decided that since the structure was not part of the campus master plan, that there was no place for it on the campus. It was left to sit for weeks and then demolished and sent to the county landfill. There were several individuals that expressed interest in buying/saving the house from the university with the intent to reassemble it on their own property (myself included). We were told that for liability reasons, the university could not sell or donate the house. The university wasted tens of thousands of man hours, over $100k of building materials, and destroyed a house that was a fully self sustaining 800 sq ft house with the latest and greatest green technologies. Oh the irony. As a very active member of the first solar decathlon team, I must correct you, Robert. The house was built on campus, dismantled, and reassembled on the mall in three days. It was dismantled again and brought back to campus where it could have easily been reassembled in less than a week. The powers that be at the university decided that since the structure was not part of the campus master plan, that there was no place for it on the campus. It was left to sit for weeks and then demolished and sent to the county landfill. There were several individuals that expressed interest in buying/saving the house from the university with the intent to reassemble it on their own property (myself included). We were told that for liability reasons, the university could not sell or donate the house. The university wasted tens of thousands of man hours, over $100k of building materials, and destroyed a house that was a fully self sustaining 800 sq ft house with the latest and greatest green technologies. Oh the irony.

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]]> By: Robert Catlin http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2007/350/comment-page-1/#comment-13840 Robert Catlin Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:03:22 +0000 http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2007/350/#comment-13840 The last solar house built on the mall by University students was to have been dismantled and turned over to the City-University Partnership for rebuilding on a local site. However, the dismantling was not able to be done in a way that the building could be salvaged to be rebuilt. The last solar house built on the mall by University students was to have been dismantled and turned over to the City-University Partnership for rebuilding on a local site. However, the dismantling was not able to be done in a way that the building could be salvaged to be rebuilt.

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