During 3 days, between 22nd and 25th of May, 60 student teams from 21 countries competed in the 8th International Stage of the ISOVER Multi-Comfort House Students Contest.

The new comers from Poland, Russia and Ukraine joined the participants form: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom and the Pennsylvania (USA).

The event, hold for the first time at international level in Bulgaria in 2005, is dedicated to architecture students and aims to better disseminate among the future opinion formers the ideas of energy efficiency as well as the different comfort dimension and is based on the ISOVER Multi Comfort House Concept.

The competition is structured in 2 stages: national stages followed by an international one were the best 3 projects from each country participate.

A record number of almost 1000 students from more that 100 universities from 3 continents registered for the participation in this year national stages, stretching from as far east as Far East Federal University (FEFU) Vladivostok from Russia to Philadelphia University of Engineering, USA in the west.

The task was the design of a sustainable community within the regeneration program of the Trent Basin area, Nottingham, UK. The project consist in developing a sustainable neighbourhood, providing accommodation for 12-15 families and essential services to assure an effective live work scheme, plus to develop a vision of regeneration of a larger area where this neighbourhood is placed, in which infrastructure, offices, leisure and recreation are conceived to reutilize existing buildings and to provide an effective integration to the city.

In order to provide the participants with all necessary documents and information two websites were created:

www.isover-students.com containing information about the current task, pictures and plans as well as all the projects and task from the previous years

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www.isover-construction.com containing a complete data base with constructions details in CAD format, documentation and brochures needed for the development of the task.

The competition is structured in 2 stages: national stages followed by an international one were the best 3 projects from each country participate.

A record number of almost 1000 students from more that 100 universities from 3 continents registered for the participation in this year national stages, stretching from as far east as Far East Federal University (FEFU) Vladivostok from Russia to Philadelphia University of Engineering, USA in the west.

The task was the design of a sustainable community within the regeneration program of the Trent Basin area, Nottingham, UK. The project consist in developing a sustainable neighbourhood, providing accommodation for 12-15 families and essential services to assure an effective live work scheme, plus to develop a vision of regeneration of a larger area where this neighbourhood is placed, in which infrastructure, offices, leisure and recreation are conceived to reutilize existing buildings and to provide an effective integration to the city.

In order to provide the participants with all necessary documents and information two websites were created:

www.isover-students.com containing information about the current task, pictures and plans as well as all the projects and task from the previous years

.........
www.isover-construction.com containing a complete data base with constructions details in CAD format, documentation and brochures needed for the development of the task.