Montreal team nets $50,000 for its green housing design

A joint McGill-Concordia effort has won a $50,000 federal grant to bring its innovative row-house design to the International Solar Decathlon in China next year. TeamMTL’s design takes aim at the growing affordable-urban-housing crisis, successfully marrying energy efficiency and sustainability with comfort and affordability. The team consists of 50-plus students and four faculty members from McGill’s Desautels Faculty of Management, School of Architecture and Faculty of Engineering, plus Concordia’s John Molson School of Business and the faculties of Fine Arts, Computer Science and Engineering.

The team’s Deep-Performance Dwelling is a low-carbon, Passive House-inspired design that meets the Solar Decathlon’s requirements of a house that is energy efficient, solar powered and ranges from 1,300 to 2,150 square feet.

Read full article: McGill News, April 7, 2017