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Building Dashboard® featured in Environmental Building News
June 5, 2006
Brattleboro, VT - From "Measurement and Verification: Monitoring Building Systems for Optimal Performance," Environmental Building News, June 2006
Bringing M&V to Occupants and Visitors
Information about a building's use of natural resources has value beyond the owner, facility manager, and design team. Displaying real-time performance information to a building's occupants and visitors has become increasingly popular, especially in educational buildings, such as high schools, university buildings, and nature centers. Several projects have earned LEED innovation points for using M&V data to turn the buildings themselves into teaching tools.
Early adopters of this teaching tactic had to cobble together their own monitoring and display systems, but an industry is now growing to provide systems that translate building performance information into user-friendly, interactive displays. "The systems that we make are designed to gather technical information on building performance and display that to a nontechnical audience," says Michael Murray, co-founder of Lucid Design Group, LLC, who works from the company's Oakland, California, office. "Buildings use huge amounts of energy, but we can't easily see that energy being used," Murray told EBN . "Part of the concept is to introduce the feedback mechanism where you can see how energy and water are being used in the building. That way you can eliminate waste."
Read the entire EBN M&V issue 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.
