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resources to business travel. The tool displays
information in a simple, engaging form that
makes it easy for individual staff to see how
small changes to their daily workflow can
meaningfully affect the organisation’s carbon
footprint. Implementation of Office Realtime
has resulted in measurable positive impact on
office resource use and energy consumption
reduction.
Case Study: City Dashboard
Case Study: Office Realtime
Location / Business: Melbourne, Australia.
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levels, traffic loads and aggregate
citywide mood.
One of a number of similar “heads-up
displays” that leverage open-source and
crowdsourced data to allow urban residents
new perspective on their surroundings,
City Dashboard speaks to the wealth of
data available to users and a desire for its
meaningful presentation. “Citizen reporting”
open-source aggregation platforms of this
type allow urban residents to be better
informed about a range of issues affecting
their city, potentially improving transit
choices, health outcomes, and the urban
experience as a whole.
Office Realtime is a data visualisation tool
that uses realtime data to guide sustainability-
related behaviour change.
Office Realtime displays sustainability
and resource consumption data for a wide
variety of typical office activities, from
energy and water use to copying and printing City Dashboard is a website displaying
real-time visual data gathered from a
variety of free and open sources throughout
London. The user-configurable site presents
weather, traffic and news, but can be used
to monitor granular climatological, transit
and sociological indicators such as pollutant
use external data to inform the daily functionality of buildings
and enable real-time, responsive connectivity with the broader
urban social and environmental context.
Equally, processes of data collection will become
more automated and embedded into building materials
and
operations. The design of buildings must respond to the
increasing quantity and complexity of data at the building
and systemic levels by incorporating advanced control
mechanisms that can adapt to dynamic environments in real
time. The ubiquity of not only the data and data collection will
allow
 expanded applications of responsive systems, such as
automated shading and operational tuning used to positively influence operational performance across the
life of the building as well as improve the design decisions and
specifications for future projects.
In the design stage, these datasets provide invaluable
performance insights, allowing comparative modeling
across projected climate and occupancy conditions. The
standardisation 
of building performance collection and
reporting methods will gain significance
 as datasets
from past projects are used to benchmark future design.
In the operational stage, datasets must be accessible and
understandable to facilities managers and occupants alike.
A fundamental trend in building design is the expansion
of design considerations beyond the building level. The
increasing availability of construction and operational
data for buildings of all types in a range of environmental
Big Data
Through a combination of advanced design software,
embedded sensing technologies, and building management
systems, designers are increasingly equipped to monitor and
analyze design, construction, and operational performance
data relating to building projects. This wealth of data can be
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Location / Business: London, UK.
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