Building Dashboard
Lucid Design Group (LDG)
US based Lucid Design Group positions itself as a pioneering design company focussed on providing information feedback in order to achieve following environmentally related aims: 'teach', 'inspire change' and 'save resources'. The building dashboard is a web based technology that provides real-time display of building resource usage in order to improve the environmental performance of buildings. The building dashboard displays real-time consumption of electricity, solar thermal production, rainwater use and greywater recycling. The dashboard is designed for all manner of building and organisation type including domestic, commercial, educational and so on. Resource consumption can be displayed in a number of ways, such as organizing visualizations by floor, by energy measurement, by currency and so on.
Collaboration
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People with backgrounds in teaching, software engineering and graphic arts
Values
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The building dashboard has been installed in a number of buildings including:
Yahoo!'s Sunnyvale campus and featured in news reports.
University of Vermont's Dudley H. Davis Student Center.
Williamstown's elementary school.
Emory University's freshman residence hall.
LDG cite the following forms of value:
Educational value. For instance, LDG argue that value can be derived from the building dashboard as part of research and development activities by commercial, non-profit and academic institutions.
Economic value. Users can save money by monitoring resource usage.
Contribution towards attainment of LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification.
Links and Resources
http://www.luciddesigngroup.com
