WORK
A Digital Display to Measure Energy Use
Communicating environmental performance with an interactive plaque
The Challenge
Help buildings communicate and display environmental efficiency.
The OUTCOME
The LEED Dynamic Plaque, displaying a building’s real-time resource use.
The U.S. Green Building Council asked IDEO to help visualize how buildings might communicate environmental performance. Together they came up with the LEED Dynamic Plaque, an elegant public declaration of a building’s environmental efforts.
Located in a lobby or other common space, the plaque displays real-time measurements about a building’s resource use—from energy to waste disposal. IDEO designed and built the physical plaque, and the IDEO Digital Shop created an online interface that allows USGBC’s software to interact with it, enabling people to enter data, analyze details, and make personal decisions that influence a building’s performance.
"LEED Dynamic Plaque" video