GRoW Buffalo

Check out our brand new deck and handrails being assembled, as we prepare for the next wave of students to contribute to and learn from the house!

Our next generation of student volunteers, hard at work making the house a reality once again!

With the steel canopy on its way up, the GRoW Home is starting to look more and more like its normal self!

The modules are bolted to the foundation and structurally connected for the first time since they were in California! Huge thanks to Lindsay Romano, Wade Georgi, Dan Vrana, and Randy Fernando for getting it to this point so professionally and efficiently.

After many months working behind the scenes, today we finally moved the modules to their foundation right next to University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning!

Congratulations to our entire team, including all of our sponsors, for winning the 2016 AIA Western New York Research Award for the GRoW Home!

Hold your horses folks, we're getting back to work.... stay tuned for more!

It's Energy Day at the Buffalo Museum of Science!! Drop by and say hi, we will be here till 4pm!

! Thank you for the great support over the last two years as we embark on a new chapter for . If you're interested to learn more about our journey, do consider our student-compiled book, GRoW. Order a copy before January 5 to get 20% off (code: MOMENTS20)

GRoW This is a book from the student perspective providing a summary and reflection on the 34 month process, written for an audience of future Solar Decathlon teams, both at UB and elsewhere. While faculty advised, it is student written and compiled.

We hope you had an awesome ! Join several professionals and organizations in the environmental and sustainability field in the upcoming 2015 WNYEA Congress by GrowWNY (Tues, Dec 8, 5.30pm)! will be there and we are excited to learn and share with you about ! Plus, this is event is free and open to public! See you there!

2015 WNYEA Congress - GrowWNY The WNYEA 9th annual Environmental Congress is a future-oriented forum, exploring innovative solutions for a cleaner and sustainable Western NY.

"Every time someone says, You can't do that, this city and our students and faculty members say, Yes, you can." This seems to speak a lot for several projects and achievements in UB, one of which being . Reading this article warmed out hearts and reminded us that our progress would not have been possible without our professors, advisors and UB's School of Architecture and Planning. We can't explain how much faith and patience they had in us throughout thick and thin. We're are extremely thankful for the opportunity to learn beyond the classroom and to realize the change we can create with our own hands. There's simply too much going around, and omg we loveeee that!!

Using Its City as a Teaching Lab, a School Helps Rebuild It, Too Faculty members and students at the University at Buffalo’s School of Architecture and Planning find plenty to do, on scales from citywide to highly personal.

We are honored to be featured alongside other amazing houses in this article by Michael Black from TecHome Builder!! Also, thanks for the shoutout on 's GRoWlarium~

What You Can Learn from Students About Home Technology Students’ shine at Solar Decathlon 2015 with hurricane-proof home