The campus of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) played host to 28 teams of university students and building industry experts who converged at the lab for the Challenge Home Student Design Competition.

During the inaugural competition, funded by the DOE’s Building Technologies Office, teams of students presented zero-energy-ready home design and construction plans to juries of national experts including leading high-performance builders, building science professionals, and researchers.