Concordia's Thursday Report

Vol. 30, No.2

September 29, 2005

 

Northern Light is off to Solar Decathlon

 

President Claude Lajeunesse, who is himself an engineer, toured Northern Light, the only Canadian entry in the Solar Decathalon, at an open house on Sept. 16. In the photo,, engineering professor Andreas Athienitis (at left) explains the principles behind the construction while Monique Boileau, urban planner of Société d’habitation du Québec (second from left) and Dean of Engineering and Computer Science Nabil Esmail (second from right) look on.√The model is now in Washington, D.C., for judging. Once the competition is over, Northern Light will return to the Loyola campus where it will be used as a teaching facility to demonstrate the potential for solar energy. Photo: Kate Hutchinson

Photo: Kate Hutchinson

President Claude Lajeunesse, who is himself an engineer, toured Northern Light, the only Canadian entry in the Solar Decathalon, at an open house on Sept. 16. In the photo,, engineering professor Andreas Athienitis (at left) explains the principles behind the construction while Monique Boileau, urban planner of Société d’habitation du Québec (second from left) and Dean of Engineering and Computer Science Nabil Esmail (second from right) look on. The model is now in Washington, D.C., for judging. Once the competition is over, Northern Light will return to the Loyola campus where it will be used as a teaching facility to demonstrate the potential for solar energy.