Teams to make affordable houses Export

@article{todd_teams_2008, abstract = {A new national competition aims to make sustainable housing affordable. The Sustainable Habitat Challenge 09 pits tertiary students, staff and industry professionals against one another in a challenge to create a sustainable home. Nine teams from around the country will build or renovate a house which uses 35 per cent less energy and 40\% less water than an average Kiwi home while maintaining an indoor temperature of at least 16deg. Team Canterbury leader William Corke said four Canterbury University fourth-year engineering students were designing sustainable aspects of the house as an end-of-year project. Students at the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology would do the building as part of a practical work project. The aim was to show that sustainable housing was cheap and easy, Corke said. Houses must be built by October 2009 and will be judged the following month. Building sites are scattered throughout the country. Construction will range from mudbrick and straw bale to improvements on conventional designs. The contest is an Otago Polytechnic initiative funded by the Ministry for the Environment's Sustainable Management Fund.}, author = {Todd, Rebecca}, citeulike-article-id = {3738880}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/4576845a6530.html}, journal = {The Press, Christchurch}, keywords = {canterbury, file-import-08-12-03, team}, month = {June}, posted-at = {2008-12-03 04:39:41}, priority = {2}, title = {Teams to make affordable houses}, url = {http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/4576845a6530.html}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - todd_teams_2008 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3738880 N2 - A new national competition aims to make sustainable housing affordable. The Sustainable Habitat Challenge 09 pits tertiary students, staff and industry professionals against one another in a challenge to create a sustainable home. Nine teams from around the country will build or renovate a house which uses 35 per cent less energy and 40% less water than an average Kiwi home while maintaining an indoor temperature of at least 16deg. Team Canterbury leader William Corke said four Canterbury University fourth-year engineering students were designing sustainable aspects of the house as an end-of-year project. Students at the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology would do the building as part of a practical work project. The aim was to show that sustainable housing was cheap and easy, Corke said. Houses must be built by October 2009 and will be judged the following month. Building sites are scattered throughout the country. Construction will range from mudbrick and straw bale to improvements on conventional designs. The contest is an Otago Polytechnic initiative funded by the Ministry for the Environment's Sustainable Management Fund. JF - The Press, Christchurch TI - Teams to make affordable houses KW - canterbury KW - file-import-08-12-03 KW - team AU - Todd, Rebecca PY - 2008/June// UR - http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/4576845a6530.html ER -