Solar Decathlon Africa: Students Build Self-Sustaining Homes in Benguerir, Morocco

Benguerir has been hosting these student candidates for the international benchmark competition in the field of sustainable housing since Wednesday, August 28, 2019. Having started construction a year earlier, they intend to finalize it within three weeks before the official opening of the school village to the general public on Friday, September 13, 2019.

A major event for the green city, this edition is under the auspices of the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Sustainable Development. An international competition organized since 2002 by the US Department of Energy, the Solar Decathlon Africa has established itself as a major media event that welcomes more than 300,000 visitors.