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LEED® Platinum Sidwell Friends School to receive Building Dashboard®
August 25, 2006
Washington, D.C. - Lucid Design Group is awarded a contract to provide a unique Building Dashboard® system this fall for Sidwell Friends School. Sidwell, a prestigious K-12 school guided by Quaker values, is committed as an institution to practicing responsible environmental stewardship. Its new Middle School, opening in September of this year, will feature a constructed wetland (the first in Washington, D.C.), energy efficient features, solar thermal and photovoltaic panels, and recycled building materials. Sidwell is seeking LEED® Platinum, the highest award for ecological architecture as recognized by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).
Lucid is providing two lobby displays and software tools to enhance Sidwell's environmental education goals and raise awareness of green features. The displays, using Lucid's Building Dashboard® technology, will showcase many building performance indicators in real-time such as energy consumption, solar electricity production from rooftop photovoltaic (PV) modules, volume and temperature of water heated from solar thermal panels, conductivity and turbidity of the constructed wetland's influent and effluent, and many other features.
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.
