According to the architecture portal Solar Age, the Energy Endeavour Foundation (EEF) has cancelled the Solar Decathlon 2023. The competition, in which architecture and engineering students design and present sustainable buildings of tomorrow, was actually supposed to take place in Bucharest in the summer of 2023.
Risk analysed
However, the still ongoing Corona pandemic is still leading to a great deal of uncertainty as to whether the architecture competition can be held safely. After a thorough risk analysis and intensive consultations with the host city, the organisers have decided to cancel the decathlon. In addition, the Romanian authorities stopped the financing in view of the risks.
Projects already submitted evaluated
The long-term cancellation by the EEF is necessary because the preparation, also on the part of the participants, is immense and, above all, lengthy. Therefore, the potentially participating universities, faculty advisors and students need to know as early as possible whether the competition will take place or not. Applications already received have been evaluated by the Solar Decathlon Europe 2023 jury. The EDF intends to give priority to one of these teams wishing to participate in the next edition of the Solar Decathlon Europe. (su/mfo)
