CompanyRecognition
Lucid has been the recipient of several regional and national awards for its Building Dashboard® technology. In addition, schools and companies using Building Dashboard have been recognized for cutting-edge efforts that have advanced our understanding of greener buildings. For six years, Lucid has been widely acclaimed as a pioneer and leading provider of resource use feedback technology for empowering occupants and improving building performance.
Gartner, the world's leading information technology research and advisory company, named Lucid Design Group one of five "Cool Vendors" offering interesting solutions for managing the enterprise energy and carbon management areas, and the built environment.
Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative (enable users to do things they couldn't do before); Impactful (have, or will have, business impact -- not just technology for the sake of technology); and Intriguing (have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months).
Lucid Design Group was named a finalist for its Building Dashboard technology by The Aspen Institute, recognizing and rewarding excellence for those making a concrete contribution to innovation, implementation and communication of energy and environmental solutions.
Presented as part of the Aspen Environment Forum with National Geographic, the awards are designed to draw attention to the organizations and people who are making the biggest strides, acting as leaders, catalysts and educators.
Lucid Design Group has been recognized by Flex Your Power, California's statewide energy efficiency campaign, for its Innovative Products & Services and outstanding leadership in energy efficiency by helping businesses and residents save energy with Building Dashboard.
A total of 46 winners were selected from hundreds of applicants for their exceptional contributions to energy efficiency in California. Cumulatively, award winners over the last three years have saved more than $500 million and three billion kilowatt-hours.
Lucid Design Group's Building Dashboard was named by Sustainable Industries Journal as one of "Eight Trends for 2008." Within the "Information Is Power" category, Lucid has spearheaded the development of new technologies aimed to help consumers change their behavior, particularly in how they use energy.
Sustainable Industries Journal informs a growing community of sustainable business leaders that have been fostering sustainable innovations on the West Coast. Each year, SIJ surveys the biggest prospective green business trends for the year ahead.
Lucid Design Group was the 2007 recipient of the AMD Smart Power Grand Prize at the California Clean Tech Open (CCTO), the nation's preeminent clean technology business contest, often dubbed "The Academy Awards" of cleantech.
The California Clean Tech Open, designed to speed clean technologies from lab to market, highlights the growing interest in the clean tech space and its essential role in finding smart solutions to the effects of climate change.
Lucid Design Group was among the 2007 recipients of the National Wildlife Federation's Campus Ecology "Chill Out" Award, which recognized Oberlin College's Campus Resource Monitoring System, powered by Building Dashboard, as an innovative program for reducing the impacts of global warming.
Oberlin was one of eight institutions nationwide to win the award, which is designed to advance and celebrate the innovators of global warming solutions on college and university campuses across the country.
Four LEED® Platinum projects with Building Dashboard as a centerpiece were named by the American Institute of Architects as the most environmentally effective green buildings in the country: Sidwell Friends Middle School, LivingHomes Z6 House (2007), Portola Valley Town Center (2009) and The Homer Center at Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton (2010).
Sidwell features the first constructed wetland in D.C. LivingHomes® Z6 House is the first LEED® Platinum home. Portola Valley features a green library, city hall and town plaza. Homer Center uses 69% less energy than a typical school and features a living roof.
Lucid Design Group was selected by the U.S. Green Building Council as one of the six most innovative companies of 2006. Lucid's special Exhibitor Showcase presentation, "Visualize, Track and Optimize Building Performance in Real Time," was delivered at the Greenbuild International Conference & Exposition in Denver, Colorado.
USGBC is the world's leading organization dedicated to sustainable building design and construction, and is the developer of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™.
Lucid team members from Oberlin College competed with dozens of colleges and universities from around the country on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. during the Environmental Protection Agency's P3 Competition, a national student design competition for sustainability. Oberlin took home the First Annual P3 Award for its campus-wide data monitoring and display system for visualizing building performance in dormitories in real time.
