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Lucid's Building Dashboard® noted in CNET's Green Tech Blog
November 12, 2007
Chicago, IL - Lucid Design Group's Building Dashboard® is noted in a CNET Green Tech Blog article, titled "Software drafted to design better buildings," discussing new applications to help building designers and businesses reduce their carbon emissions. From the article:
"Fewer than half of architects were building with green features in mind five years ago, but 90 percent will be by 2012, according to Autodesk ....
"... Lucid Design Group's Building Dashboard® ... provides [a] picture of energy use and abuse that [is] otherwise impossible to pinpoint and view ...
"... The more these kinds of tools are integrated into the blueprints and backbones of buildings, the more people will come to demand energy efficiencies and low-toxic materials as standard features rather than costly extras."
Read the CNET Green Tech Blog 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.
