QA Graphics’ Energy Efficiency Education Dashboard (EEED) is used to showcase an organization’s sustainable initiatives and educate building occupants and visitors on measures that they can take to be more energy efficient. View examples at www.qagraphics.com/eeed. The educational factor is what differentiates QA Graphics’ Energy Efficiency Education Dashboard from traditional monitoring-based dashboards; it allows viewers to understand how the sustainable features used in the building actually work and benefit the environment.

Real-time resource use is provided in an easy to understand format to give occupants insight on how their actions directly impact the building. Real-time resource use can be shown by integrating the EEED into the building’s control system. This allows the EEED to “talk” to the building automation system (BAS) or meters within a building and display the data, making reporting the metrics much easier to read and understand. Interactive quizzes, demonstrations, videos, pictures, LEED checklists and information can be used to show what sustainable features are in place, and how those features save money and resources. Educational features might include demonstrating how a solar hot water panel system collects solar energy to help provide hot water to a facility, or how geothermal systems use the constant temperature from the Earth to heat or cool a facility. The application is also editable, allowing the end-user to continue to update the display as their sustainable initiatives change.

The Energy Efficiency Education Dashboard is also used to motivate occupants to conserve resources. A leader board can be used to display real-time and historical energy use and compare the usage among multiple buildings or floors within a building. For example, a leader board can be used to create a competition among dorms on a campus, or even each floor within a single dorm building, to see who can be the most efficient. Implementing this type of module can make being resource conscious fun and encourage occupants to be more involved in energy conservation.

The application is often presented on a touch-screen, located in a building’s main lobby, as well as through the organization’s intranet or internet for the public to see. Schools, universities, libraries, commercial buildings, government buildings, the hospitality industry and others are utilizing the Energy Efficiency Education Dashboard to showcase their sustainable achievements. If applying for the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED certification (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), incorporating an Energy Efficiency Education Dashboard into the sustainable plan may help achieve LEED Innovation and Design credits. Learn more at www.qagraphics.com/eeed.

In 2009, QA Graphics’ Energy Efficiency Education Dashboard received the ED+C and SF’s Readers’ Choice Award.

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