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Building Dashboard® For Schools
Lucid's Building Dashboard® interactive websites and touchscreen displays for schools are designed to make resource use in buildings -- academic facilities, student unions, recreation centers and residence halls -- visible, engaging and easily understood by students, residents, faculty and visitors.
Today's environmental movement has its origins in colleges and universities, where essential sustainability objectives have guided decisions about construction, renovation and energy supply that directly impact campus community and the environment. But missing from the decision making process is ongoing feedback on campus performance that allows students, faculty and staff to actively participate in resource conservation and community building. In reality, the story of resource use embodied in most buildings is not consistent with the goals of environmental stewardship that learning institutions actively promote and support. With the introduction of real-time resource use feedback, however, buildings can serve as integral components of the broader curriculum and educate and empower students to be better stewards of the planet.
Benefits of Building Dashboard® For Schools
Make buildings teaching tools
Building Dashboard® makes energy and water use in dormitories, student centers and other academic buildings visible and teachable. This transforms a school's living and working environments into laboratories of stewardship that enable visitors and occupants to develop a more sustainable relationship between the built environment and the natural world.
Launch dormitory energy competitions
Rival your peers to reduce energy consumption in competing residence halls and other buildings. Residents can instantly compare a dorm's performance to competing floors and other dorms, and track individual peformance -- all in real time. Previous studies by Lucid team members have shown that real-time feedback on electricity use can facilitate reductions of between 10% to 56% in residential settings.
Enhance research with Data Downloader
Building operators, researchers and students can quickly and easily download archived data over any time scale into an Excel® spreadsheet using the web-based Data Downloader. Data can be manipulated, evaluated and used for monitoring and verification and in the classroom. Password protection provides access that is limited to specified variables within the database.
Make smart people in 'dumb' buildings
Green buildings are intended to demonstrate sustainable design practices and features, but most schools and campuses consist of non-green, environmentally 'dumb' buildings. Building Dashboard® monitors and publicly displays performance in older, 'brown' buildings that lack existing building automation systems using an autonomous, network-based data logger.
Monitor the performance of green technologies
Building Dashboard® makes the performance of photovoltaic systems, solar thermal systems, rainwater catchment systems, geothermal systems and other green technologies visible and interpretable by the public. By demonstrating the feasibiliy and importance of green technologies through real-time environmental and financial payback information, the greater campus community can tangibly understand the value of going green.
Improve LEED® ratings
Benchmarking and improving the performance of buildings, as well as engaging the public about resource flows and the operation of green technologies, is contingent on high-resolution feedback. Building Dashboard® facilitates your ability to earn Measurement and Verification and Innovation in Design credits toward the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED® certification for both LEED® for New Construction and LEED® for Existing Buildings.
