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CEPT's Team KILL BILL wins the Race to Zero

26.04.2017

Faculty of Technology

CEPT’s Team KILL BILL won the 1st place trophy in the Urban Single Family Housing category of US Department of Energy’s “Race to Zero” Competition. Team Kill Bill was led by students in the M. Tech. Building Energy Performance program, with a goal to “kill” the electricity “bill” (shortage) in India. Fifteen CEPT students from the Faculties of Technology, Architecture and Planning made up the team. They replicated a real-life Integrated Design Process with specific roles for team members, seen internationally for high performance buildings but rare in India. Members of the Faculty of Technology mentored the team in an elective course.

Over five months, they designed, prepared working drawings that included MEP systems, demonstrated performance with simulations, estimated costs and developed financing strategies. They designed a marketable house in Jaipur that is zero energy, zero water, gets WHO levels of air quality despite ambient pollution, and all this at a debt-to-income ratio that bankers found acceptable for their target market. Team KILL BILL’s work was commended by the jury for excelling under all categories of evaluation in the competition.

KILL BILL was one of the 39 participating teams, and the only team from outside the Americas that made it to the finals. They presented their design to a jury of industry leaders at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the USA.

Team KILL BILL will present their winning entry on CEPT campus upon their return. The date will be announced soon.

CEPT's Team KILL BILL wins the Race to Zero