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American Institute of Architects name top 10 green buildings
April 25 , 2007
Washington, DC - Two projects featuring Lucid's Building Dashboard® are named by the American Institute of Architects as the best, most environmentally effective green buildings in the country: Sidwell Friends Middle School in Washington, DC and LivingHomes in Santa Monica, CA.
Sidwell, a prestigious K-12 school guided by Quaker values, is committed as an institution to practicing responsible environmental stewardship. Its new Middle School features a constructed wetland (the first in Washington, DC), energy efficient features, solar chimneys and photovoltaic panels, and recycled building materials. Sidwell earned the LEED® Platinum rating.
The LivingHomes® Z6 house is the first home to receive the LEED® Platinum rating. The LivingHomes single-family residence features rooftop photovoltaic (PV) modules, solar thermal panels, natural ventilation, recycled materials, and energy and water efficient appliances throughout.
About Lucid
Founded in 2004, Lucid Design Group, Inc. ("Lucid") is a privately held cleantech software company and a pioneer in providing real-time information feedback to teach, inspire behavior change and save energy and water resources in buildings. Over the past seven years, Lucid's team has endeavored to make resource use visible, accessible and engaging so that building occupants have the data visualization and communication tools to manage and reduce their consumption.
Today, tens of thousands of people live and work in schools, companies, community and commercial buildings and homes enhanced by Lucid's web-based Building Dashboard® technology. Now in its fourth generation, the intuitive Building Dashboard® user interface allows occupants to connect personal electricity, water and natural gas consumption with the actions and events that take place within buildings.
