About Team Shunya, IIT Bombay in Team Shunya, Near Aero engineering Department, IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai

Team Shunya, IIT Bombay is an interdisciplinary team comprising of 9+ faculty members and 60+ students specializing in buildings simulations, solar passive architecture, solar thermal and photovoltaics and modular pre-fabricated construction technologies. Our aim is to build "affordable pre-fabricated net zero solar powered houses" making India's future energy secure. We would like to build a solar-powered, sustainable house for the Indian middle class, which could serve as the answer to India's growing energy and housing problems. Our mission is to bring about a change in the Indian building industry, by demonstrating the affordability of sustainable housing, To formulate and document a design process, which could be replicated to create sustainable homes in a resource efficient way and to raise awareness in the nation about energy efficiency, responsible energy use and the potential of renewable technology with emphasis on solar energy.

We took part in Solar Decathlon Europe, 2014 and we got "Honourable mention in Sustainability". Now, we have selected in Solar Decathlon,2017 which will be held in Dezou, China. We are the only team from India to represent in India in ths so called as Olympic of Solar Energy none other than Solar Decathlon.

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