Lucid Design Group is the pioneer in an emerging industry that provides information feedback to teach, inspire change and save resources. Started by a diverse team with backgrounds in education, software engineering and graphic arts, Lucid was born in one of the first modern green buildings in the United States. Now, nearly five years later, thousands of people live and work in buildings and homes equipped with Building Dashboard®.

We spend 90% of our lives in buildings, yet we have little or no idea how much energy and water we consume at work, school and in our homes. Your car has a dashboard – why not your building? With this question in mind, our team set out to make resource use visible, accessible and engaging to the public. To make it actionable and effective, we put this information on the web and carefully translated the flows of energy and water into everyday units that make sense to a non-technical audience.

All buildings implicitly tell a story about our relationship with the environment. The story of resource use embodied in most buildings, however, is not consistent with the goals of environmental stewardship. At schools, colleges and universities, buildings are not just places in which learning can occur; they can and should serve as integral components of the broader curriculum – laboratories of stewardship that enable visitors and occupants to develop a more sustainable relationship between humans and the natural world. Simliarly, at our workplaces and in our homes, we require the tools to make better resource use decisions, to optimize our behavior through reducing consumption and to ultimately save energy, water and money.

 

You have demonstrated your commitment to environmental stewardship by investing in an environmentally responsible building. Yet the presence of solar panels, energy efficient heating and cooling systems, water conserving appliances and other green features does not guarantee that occupants and visitors have a tangible understanding of the environmental benefits of these technologies.

The value of green buildings and innovative technologies is maximized when feedback about their performance is readily visible and intuitive. For example, Building Dashboard® can tell you: How many equivalent lightbulbs are we using right now? How much money was saved today through conservation? How many pounds of CO₂ did our solar panels offset this month? How does my consumption compare to everyone else's in our school, office or community?

Both our green building and non-green building customers derive significant value from Building Dashboard® including: education and research opportunities; increased visibility to the public, potential clients and donors; enhanced capacity for maintenance, troubleshooting and commissioning; and credits toward LEED® certification.

 

Lucid Design Group offsets its corporate travel carbon footprint with Carbonfund.org. On an annual basis, Lucid calculates its airplane and vehicle travel footprint and offsets the associated CO₂ emissions. Carbonfund.org in turn supports carbon-reducing projects globally. Our goal is to empower people to conserve resources, appreciate the value of renewable energy and to be better environmental stewards of our planet. We believe that it is crucial for us to manage our company in a way that is consistent with the goals of our products.

 

Lucid continually seeks talented, technologically and artistically savvy individuals who are passionate about the potential for information feedback to facilitate a more sustainable relationship between humans and the natural world, and who are committed to transforming client goals into compelling and intuitive software products and rich user experiences. For further information and current job openings, please e-mail careers@luciddg.com. No phone calls, please.