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Our team has weighed the point significance of each competitive task and summarized this information in a spreadsheet for use during the competition. Should energy become limiting, this spreadsheet will identify energy consuming equipment that can easily be removed from or added to the competition hourly schedule.

It's important to keep in mind that all of the teams have worked hard to build energy efficient houses. Within the unpredictable environment of the competition, a good competition strategy may be as or more important than the characteristics of the house.

Based on the result of our simulation, our team identified a number of control systems that would make it easier to operate our home during the contest.