Dear Readers,
It’s been almost a week since we packed, loaded and waved a teary farewell to the lorries carrying our precious modules, as well as the trucks full of planters, plants and other materials that make up the exhibition landscape of our site at the Solar Decathlon. What’s more, in less than a week we members of Decathlete Team C will join the H.O.U.S.E. - by then fully assembled – in Madrid for the public stage of the competition.
We haven’t been slacking this past week, though - the dust clouds left in the wake of the H.O.U.S.E. left all members of the team remaining in Nottingham with many tasks to undertake, including industrial-level clean-ups and preparations for exhibitions in the uni’s Department of the Built Environment itself. The build may have departed our shores, but this is not quite over yet.
The hardest work, of course, has been for Decathlete Teams A and B, who arrived on the Villa Solar site on Saturday and have been in full construction mode ever since. Having levelled the site, the first trucks arrived on Monday with the aforementioned landscaping paraphernalia, and the modules themselves arrived yesterday – their triumphant entrance dampened only slightly by the torrential rain it seems the whole of Europe is experiencing right now.
The Facebook site is being regularly updated with pictures straight from the event, so direct yourself there for the latest shots. Also present on-site is Mr Blue, keeping us abreast of the goings-on through his tweets, and his family Ms Green and Kid Orange will be travelling out with Team C next week, so there’s no need to feel out of the loop.
For now, back to finalising our tour plan for presenting the H.O.U.S.E. in the competition!
Tom