Team Florida Part 3: Construction begins and the team hits the news

Posted on: Monday, June 20, 2011 by: Hunter Taylor, Team Florida communications member
Solar Decathlon FLeX house powered with SolarWorld solar panels With only three months before FLeX House is shipped to D.C. for the Solar Decathlon competition, Team Florida has ramped up construction at the Beck site. This past month, we built the floor frames on top of FLeX’s movable foundation and installed steel support beams as well as framed and sheathed the walls—and the more we build, the more people are taking notice.

Patagonia Sin Represas!

Posted on: Friday, June 10, 2011 by: Kohl Christensen, SolarWorld Authorized Installer
Kohl Christensen SolarWorld authorized installer Patagonia Sin Represas! (Patagonia without dams) spray painted above bus stops all around the capital of Santiago gives you an idea of where most Chileans stand on the proposed construction of the 5 hydroelectric dams that will destroy certain areas of Patagonia.

Pearl Harbor Naval Base Installation

Posted on: Thursday, June 2, 2011 by: Ben Santarris, Head of corporate communications and sustainability
Pearl Harbor SolarWorld solar panel installation It took me about four months to get onto five Pearl Harbor rooftops to photograph new SolarWorld arrays there. I wanted our photographer, Fred Joe, to document the installations, partly because I count them among a series of iconic solar projects this year that, to me, herald a dawning solar prime time.

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