The 2016 Race to Zero Student Design Competition had 31 teams from 25 collegiate institutions competing to design cost-effective, zero energy homes for mainstream builders.
The Race to Zero encourages students to work with builders, developers, community leaders, and other industry partners to meet stringent design requirements and create marketable, affordable concepts. Below are the winners of the annual event, which took place on April 16-17, 2016, at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo.
View the presentations and project summaries from the winning teams, or learn about the 2016 competition jurors.
2016 Winning Teams
Grand Winner
Prairie View A&M University
Green Future Team
Double Barrel Project
Suburban Single-Family Housing Contest
First Place
Appalachian State University
Team (Re)Connect
Resilient House Project
Second Place
Philadelphia University
Emergence Team
House II Project
Urban Single-Family Housing Contest
First Place
Prairie View A&M University
Green Future Team
Double Barrel Project
Second Place
University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Net Zero Wisconsin Team
Forward House Project
Attached Housing Contest
First Place
Philadelphia University
PhilaU Powered to Zero Team
New Affordable Zero Homes Project
Second Place
Illinois Institute of Technology
Net-Zero IIT Team
Net-Zero IIT Town House Project
Small Multifamily Housing Contest
First Place
Ryerson University
True North Design Team
Eastern Pine Project
Second Place
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Team LINKoln
LINKoln Locale Project
2016 Teams
Below is a list of all the collegiate institutions that competed.
- Appalachian State University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Humboldt State University
- Illinois Institute of Technology
- Illinois State University
- Montana State University
- Pennsylvania College of Technology
- The Pennsylvania State University
- Philadelphia University
- Prairie View A&M University
- Roger Williams University
- Ryerson University
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- University of Miami
- University of Missouri
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- University of North Texas
- University of Southern California
- The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- University of Wyoming
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Washington University in St. Louis
2016 RACE TO ZERO SPONSORSHIP
The support of these 2016 sponsors helped make the Race to Zero event possible:
- American Chemistry Council – Spray Foam Coalition
- BASF
- DuPont Building Innovations
- NORESCO
- Owens Corning
- Plastics Pipe Institute
- Spray Polyurethane Foam Alliance
- Structural Insulated Panel Association
- Unico.