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TeamMADE, a sustainable home design and construction crew with student members from the University of California, Irvine and Orange Coast College, placed second overall in the Orange County Sustainability Decathlon, which was held Oct. 5-15 at the Or
The two-week event tasked collegiate minds to design and build affordable, energy-efficient homes. They came back with fire-resistant, quake-proof units that eat carbon dioxide.
SALINAS – It is the little school that could, and succeeded spectacularly. Rancho Cielo, the comprehensive learning, training and social services center for Monterey County youth, was named winner of the 2023 Orange County Sustainability Decathlon with its Nexus 01 home. “Exhausted and exhilarated” was how Thomas Rettenweder, architect and educator, described how he was feeling […]