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Building Dashboard® on display in museum exhibit for self-sustainable rest stops
January 15, 2008
Davis, CA - Lucid's Building Dashboard® is part of Miami University of Ohio's GreenStop Design Competition submission, one of a select few to be presented at the UC Davis Design Museum installation, "GreenStop: Visionary designs for a self-sustainable rest stop."
Miami's submission, entitled "Driving Toward a Sustainable Future," will be on display from January 3 - March 9, 2008 and features highlights from the international competition to select a design for a self-sustainable and "off the grid" roadside rest stop along Route 99 in Tulare County, San Joaquin Valley, CA.
The rest stop design incorporated a customized version of Lucid's Building Dashboard® system. Inside the rest stop, visitors can interact with a large monitor displaying real-time information on solar panel output and water quality as it enters and exits a constructed wetland ecosystem for purification. The display also includes local and regional information which sets the context for the visitor to understand the unique features of California's Central Valley.
Coordinated by the California Department of Transportation, The Great Valley Center, the American Institute of Architects, California Council and others, the competition seeks creative architectural designs which create a self-sufficient, educational, off-the-grid roadside stop to be implemented in California's Central Valley. Submissions are required to address a broad scale of sustainability and interpretive issues, while also providing an image and identity reflecting the region of California's Central Valley.
Visit the GreenStop Design Competition website »
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.
