An interdisciplinary team of UC Santa Barbara undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students has taken a top prize at the 2013 Better Building Case Competition.
Held in Washington, D.C., at the White House, the competition is part of President Obama's Better Buildings Initiative, which is striving for a 20 percent reduction in commercial and industrial energy use by 2020.
The contest is held annually by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) with an aim to engage college students in the hunt for creative energy efficiency solutions.
The UCSB group was among 14 universities – including Yale, MIT, Cornell, Dartmouth, and Tufts – vying in the competition.