Simplifying Sustainability Through Gamification

Paul Shahriari Founder & CEO

ecomedes

Simplifying Sustainability through Gamification

Presented By: Paul Shahriari Founder/CEO

Our Built Environment as a Game Platform

~100B sf Commercial Real Estate in US

~133M total residential housing units in the US

•  Growing interest in project performance •  Expanding requirements for product data •  Increasing project complexity •  Evolving sustainability targets & metrics •  Limited time for decision making

Real Estate, Design and Construction Challenges

Looking for Product

Performance Data

Vendor, Dealer,

Distributor, Retailer

Vendor Website

Manufacturer Sales Rep

Manufacturer Website

Architect Designer

Trade Contractors

Customer Support

Dept.

Green Consultants

Technical Services

Dept.

Engineer

Contractor

US Green Building Council LEED

International Living Building Institute

Living Building Challenge

Green Building Initiative GreenGlobes

International WELL Building Institute WELL Building

Standard

Public Building Service / GSA Green Procurement

Guidelines

Scavenger Hunt/Maze   Connect the Data   Calculate Contributions   Piece Together Results  

Customer Support

Dept.

Technical Services

Dept.

Results / Answers / Decision

Product Certifiers

Broken Workflows make the current game hard

Platform/Device Independent •  Decision making happens everywhere now •  Most A/E/C/FM tools are not responsive •  Next generation of decision makers wants simple tools

Focus •  Identify KPIs and set impact goals •  Target key solutions sets that align with client needs •  Simplify story of economic, environmental, social impacts

Focus: Identify the mission

Product Performance

Data

Simplified decision making based on

Economic, Environmental and

Social Values

Map •  Connect the solution sets and their performance data •  Find the linkages to impacts the owner wants •  What other paths are available?

Automated  Data  

Mapping  

Map – Automate the process like UBER

Calculate •  Automate the calculations •  Make the Math easy •  Sustainable STEM

Automated Product and Project calculations •  Provide simple Impact/ROI analysis for impacts on

energy (kWh,$), water (gallons,$) and maintenance cost savings ($)

•  Green building rating system credits •  Simplify the complicated process of sustainability

impact analysis and rating system compliance

Financial! kWh! Gallons! Operations!Costs!

Insurance! Healthy!Products!

Low Impact!

Calculate

Report •  Streamline product and project analysis •  Designed for all decision makers •  Informed decisions can be made quickly and effectively

•  Simple analysis reports and documentation that can be reviewed and shared with teams

•  Reports are organized by Analysis lenses and detailed at a project level and at a product level

Report

Independent Impact analysis can be run for

•  Financial •  Energy •  Water •  Lifecycle

Report

Analyze •  Review the utilization of the tool to improve next version •  Crowd source players to help the next project •  Help solution providers with feedback to R&D

Consumers  Influencers  

Installers  TOTO  Team  

Project  Loca<on  

Cost  Savings  

Energy  Savings  

Water  Savings  

We should better understand where people are playing the game We should know what the potential impacts are  

Player  

Analyze

BIMTools for Collaborative Gaming Step 1: Turn on visualization of potential

BIMTools for Collaborative Gaming Step 2: Review product options

Step 3: Review Project and Product Analysis BIMTools for Collaborative Gaming

Review

Simple > Complicated Leverage the data

Make it easy

Focus   Map   Calculate   Report   Analyze   Shop  

Thank You

Any Questions?

paul@ecomedes.com