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Building Dashboard® featured in Adobe Design Center Think Tank
July 17, 2007
San Jose, CA - Author Peter Hall discusses Lucid's Building Dashboard® in an Adobe Design Center Think Tank featured article, "Seeing green: Designing for conservation," about bridging the communication gap between buildings and their inhabitants. From the article:
"While most people know that incandescent light bulbs in our homes are inefficient compared with compact fluorescents, or that it’s a waste of energy to pump air-conditioning through an empty office building, the raw facts—how much energy we’re using, or money we’re wasting—are not accessible, and neither is there much incentive to change. Exactly how much are we reducing carbon dioxide emissions by biking to work or turning off our computers at night? What is the true cost of leaving the lights and heating on in an empty building?
"... [A] Santa Monica-based housing developer [LivingHomes®] recently broke the mold and commissioned a custom monitoring and display system from Lucid for its model home, which earned the first ever USGBC award for homes, the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) platinum rating. Another housing developer in Atlanta, Georgia is exploring the idea of putting Building Dashboard in its high end “Ecomanor” homes; the developer is particularly focused on using the system to display how quickly energy savings will pay off the capital cost of installing solar panels."
Read the Adobe Think Tank article online »
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.
