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Lucid Announces Energy Conservation Competition for Universities

Oakland, CAAugust 28, 2008

Lucid Design Group announces a national competition that encourages energy conservation on college campuses – the winning student-led U.S. or Canadian university team that submits the best YouTube video will win Building Dashboard® for up to three buildings on their campus

Building Dashboard® debuts in Future House at Beijing 2008 Olympics

Beijing, ChinaAugust 8, 2008

Future House USA, showcasing the most advanced residential green technologies available, uses Building Dashboard® to display electricity use and solar photovoltaic production at the net-zero home during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

Building Dashboard® highlighted in Boulder Space.com

Boulder, COAugust 5, 2008

Boulder Space, a collaborative network for Boulder's design and development industry, highlights a new Building Dashboard® which monitors and displays electricity use and enables real-time energy comparisons in two dormitories at University of Colorado at Boulder

Lucid's Building Dashboard® cited in Fast Company Magazine

New York, NYJune 23, 2008

Building Dashboard® is cited in a Fast Company Magazine July issue article, titled "The Green Housing Boom: Forward-thinking architects and real-estate developers are already envisioning the post-bust cycle of home building. And smaller is better."

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Yahoo!'s Sunnyvale campus headquarters is equipped with a Building Dashboard® system that monitors per building electricity usage, enables inter-building comparisons, educates employees on Yahoo!'s sustainability efforts, and shares tips for encouraging resource conservation.

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Testimonials

Lucid Design Group is helping us to design a system that will allow apartment owners to view water and resource consumption as well as to stay in touch with community events. Their team brings an unparalleled degree of enthusiasm and creativity to the design process.

Naomi Sabel
Partner, Sustainable Community Associates
Oberlin, OH

Yahoo! Headquarters' Building Dashboard®

Lucid Design Group's Building Dashboard® is unveiled at Yahoo! corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. The touch-screen display shows Yahoo! employees real-time building electricity consumption and carbon emissions, enables comparisons between buildings and encourages discussion about how to take action to reduce energy use.

"Our mission is simple – to take action, big and small, to help Yahoo! reduce its carbon footprint. Empowering green actions through our employees and across our business is something we take very seriously (we launched a consumer-friendly resource for all things green called Yahoo! Green).

"The Dashboard presents energy usage in an easy to understand way and gives anyone who approaches the touch screen kiosk the ability to play with the information." Read More »

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Museum of Science and Industry exhibit debuts with Building Dashboard®

Chicago, ILMay 14, 2008

The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago debuts a Smart Home exhibit using Building Dashboard®, allowing visitors to explore a three-story sustainable home while viewing electricity, natural gas and water consumption and solar electricity production on a real-time basis

The Weather Channel's 'Forecast Earth' features Lucid's Building Dashboard®

Atlanta, GAMay 5, 2008

Lucid's Building Dashboard® is featured on The Weather Channel's 'Forecast Earth,' showcasing green technologies and design strategies employed throughout EcoManor, the first LEED® certified residence in the Southeast

Building Dashboard® highlighted on HGTV in EcoManor

Atlanta, GAApril 29, 2008

Building Dashboard®, which allows building owners to monitor the performance of green technologies and automatically tally payback on their investment, is highlighted on Home & Garden TV during a tour of EcoManor, the first LEED® certified residence in the Southeast

Business Week cites Building Dashboard® at Oberlin College

Oberlin, OHMarch 28, 2008

Business Week's "Greening the American Campus" cites Oberlin College's Building Dashboard®, which provides a "real-time visualization of the building's material and energy flow," as a prominent component of green, 21st century architecture on college campuses

Building Dashboard® displayed in Eco Aesthetics exhibit in The Hague

The Hague, The NetherlandsMarch 22, 2008

Yahoo! Headquarters' Building Dashboard® is displayed in "Exhibition Eco Aesthetics: Monitoring Ecological Data and Patterns of Human Consumption" in The Hague

Lucid team member demonstrates Building Dashboard® on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer

Washington, D.C.March 6, 2008

Lucid team member Michael Murray demonstrates Yahoo! Headquarters' Building Dashboard® display in a PBS segment from The News Hour with Jim Lehrer discussing carbon offsets

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Can a Building Dashboard® also display other non-resource use data, such as an events calendar or weather information?

Building Dashboard® has been designed to become the centerpiece of your building, not only by explaining the flows of resources and the consequences of consumption, but also by providing occupants with other relevant information that is unique to your organization or region. You can easily post current event listings, present ‘green’ tips, and display live weather forecasts.