If your children are members of a solar house team you can pretty well bet they are somewhere in the dark recesses of the Solar Decathlon work site, above.
In most cases work is a constant beehive of activity that goes on 24-hours a day, but some houses are dark and quiet. That could be attributed to several reasons: a specific house might be so simple that work is ahead of schedule, a structure might have been designed to arrive on site nearly complete, or a crew might have become so exhausted that they could no longer be productive at night and decided to rest instead. We are not sure why Cornell shut down their unorthodox three-tank structure for the night (right), but probably 75% of the teams are still at it.
This has certainly not been the case with Show-Me Solar. While the Missouri home looks quiet late at night, construction chief Luke Sudkamp is leading the night crew which is concentrating in interior repairs and adjustments, such as drywall repair, charging the plumbing systems, tracking down errant circuits or installing light fixtures too sensitive to go down the highway in place. The day and night crews overlap so that each has a firm understanding of what has been done and what still remains unfinished.
And in case you are wondering, yes, the barn crew is still out there working. 
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