Sustainability Decathlon 2023

Dr Arman Hashemi (Principal Investigator, UEL)

We have been successful in securing $100K to design and build an Affordable Prefabricated Carbon Neutral House in California, Orange County (OCSD 23) as a collaboration between The University of East London and Tongji University at the Sustainability Decathlon.

“OCSD23 is a new competition that challenges teams to design, build, and market innovative model homes that demonstrate a range of solutions to some of California’s most urgent problems.”

Eighteen teams have been selected and each will receive $100,000 to help fund the project. Dr Arman Hashemi will be leading the project on behalf of UEL at the Sustainability Decathlon which aims to bring bold and inventive ideas to be designed, built and marketed that are carbon neutral, resilient, waterand energy efficient and affordable. The homes will be displayed in October 2023 in a Solar Village which will be open to the public.