Help City Tech Students Build a Solar Powered House

CUNY’s City Tech students need your help to finish the solar house they are building for the international Solar Decathlon. Brownstoner received this request for support from the team’s faculty representative Jill Bouratoglou, who also happens to be one of the architects for Beastie Boy Mike D’s 242 Pacific Street townhouse in Boerum Hill. Here’s her letter:

“I am asking if Brownstoner could ask their readers to support our students who are working six days a week building a house to compete in the Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon in the Navy Yard. They are so close to finishing, and the house will be leaving the Navy Yard at the end of August to be transported across the country to Irvine, Calif., to compete against 19 other schools.

You can help!

1)    Do you have a construction skill you can share? Would you be willing to lead students in a task – electrical, plumbing, drywall, finishing?

2)    Do you have a contact who might sponsor us with a donation or discount?
– a stone fabricator
– bathroom/shower wall finishes
– kitchen cabinets
– plumbing supplies
– energy efficient appliances
– a crane!
– transportation & housing for the competition in California

3)    Like us on Facebook:   facebook.com/NYCCTSD2015   (for contest points!)

4)    Donate through the City Tech Foundation (a 501(c)(3)) and help send the team to California!
– snail mail address can be found at:   http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/aboutus/foundation/about.aspx
– or donate by credit card:    https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/1422822

Then make arrangements to come visit the site… and hold the date for our send-off party on August 27th!

The houses will be open to the public in California and will have over 70,000 visitors. Currently, if we do not receive materials, we will be delayed and it will be hard to finish. The house is being built in three parts. It will be completely off the grid and it is just over 800sf. We are also looking for a home for the house once the competition is done. Thank you for any help!!

Thank you
Jill Bouratoglou”