Simplifying Sustainability Through Gamification
Paul Shahriari Founder & CEO
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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