OpenBlue Net Zero Buildings is your proven path to hit decarbonization and renewable energy goals while optimizing building performance. Now is the time to make net zero leadership easier than ever. Buildings account for some 40% of global emissions and we’re uniquely placed to help customers around the world pursue their net zero carbon goals.
The journey can seem daunting; understanding fast moving trends, changing regulations, certification requirements and incentives. We’re here with a proven path, perfectly placed to put you in the know and to make your transition towards net zero easier.
See what OpenBlue Net Zero Buildings can do for your enterprise here.
Carbon reduction and renewable energy goals can seem like a minefield. Regulations, incentives and innovations change rapidly, and sometimes it can seem like you’re aiming at a moving target. Many firms struggle with their first or next steps. At Johnson Controls, we’re perfectly placed to advise you on what’s changing and to give you a roadmap so you can best take advantage of the path ahead. We use best practices from your industry, take lessons from the plans that succeeded and show you how to avoid pitfalls. Join us in shaping a healthy planet and writing the rulebook as we advise governments and ESG leaders on how to deploy impactful innovations and lead fast transformations.
Partner with us to develop your best next step to achieve your net zero and renewable energy goals. We will support your commitments, performance goals, and reporting requirements. Utilizing turnkey access to benchmarks, road mapping, designing, financing, building, operating, maintaining and retrofitting, across the full spectrum and lifecycle of building solutions & services. Giving you peace of mind with experienced delivery to minimize business disruption
We build your business case and roadmap wherever you are on your sustainability journey. We can optimize your building performance with technology that delivers up to 50% in energy savings and a corresponding drop in CO2 emissions and 100% renewable electricity. In this way, we can balance the traditional conflict between cost savings & investment to achieve sustainability targets.
Our flexible models are designed to do exactly what they say, share the risk. We believe win-win solutions inherently increase the reward while mitigating the risk as much as possible. That’s why we can help with upfront capital decisions and take responsibility for design and construction. We can own your decarbonization goals and reporting, ensuring you pay for your expected outcomes and not the assets. Our deal structures are flexible and tailored to meet your needs and include an option for simple fixed-fee model (as a Service).
Forrester Consulting conducted a thought leadership study commissioned by and developed in collaboration with Johnson Controls to evaluate the progress that sustainability-focused companies have made in pursuing their goals.
Read MoreThanks to our digital solutions, buildings can come “alive”. OpenBlue Enterprise Manager lets you optimize building outcomes and achieve impactful sustainability. Amongst other things, our comprehensive suite of apps monitor and improve energy efficiency, reporting and can predict energy demand and consumption. We can monitor and report on water and other utilities. Every aspect of your assets and systems performance can be continually evaluated with 24/7 data driven closed loop preventative maintenance. All this leads to energy savings and improved IAQ recommendations. Leading to cost savings, tenant satisfaction, asset performance, and ultimately comfort of all occupants.
Our easy-to-use app uses real time data from control systems, meters, weather forecasts, and utility rates to optimize the operations of chilled water, hot water, steam, and cogeneration plants. It creates visibility around plant efficiencies and deficiencies with dashboards and fault detection. It can give you real-time control commands or advisory set point recommendations to denote equipment-specific set points to minimize future utility costs and save energy. Used together with digital twin, it can even simulate utility cost and energy use impacts for different plant upgrades or new technologies. So, you can cut utility bills, meet energy, water, and carbon sustainability goals and extend the life of your assets.
Our cloud-based wireless technology enables enhanced chiller maintenance services that help reduce energy consumption, extend asset life, and increase uptime. It gives you greater visibility into chiller health and offers advanced, preventative, and predictive maintenance. Issues can be detected early, and we offer remote root-cause analysis. You can also access expertise from local factory-trained experts to support your needs. All leading to reduced energy consumption, fewer unplanned repairs and optimized chiller performance.
Our industry leading, intuitively designed Building Automation System provides complete control and maximizes operator efficiency to enhance occupant comfort, safety, security, productivity, and delivers impactful sustainability by managing energy use to deliver operational and energy savings. Metasys manages energy use by addressing common issues. In fact, installing a building management system can lead to an average energy reduction of 10%. It collects, summarizes, presents and reports building data speeding up troubleshooting and reducing time spent on the task. It can help keep building systems secure with Cybersecurity best practices. All seamlessly integrating HVAC, fire, security, and lighting systems. It future-proofs your building systems, saving money and energy whilst boosting productivity and effectiveness.
Our OpenBlue Services can help you maximize your HVAC system uptime and protect your assets with ‘Always On’ predictive maintenance and advanced fault detection. With real-time diagnostics at your fingertips, optimize asset and operational performance to help extend asset life and reduce energy consumption. Timely maintenance and replacement of equipment prevents costly downtime. Our advanced Vibration Evaluation service gives you the information you need to keep your HVAC system operating at peak performance. We have the world’s largest database of chiller equipment vibration signature data, giving us the upper hand in diagnosing issues. Predictive Maintenance improves your sustainability by ensuring your equipment is running optimally while using the minimum amount of energy. All this leads to longer lifespans for equipment which means less waste.
Our recent Net Zero Buildings Pulse survey shows over 90% of respondents have significant goals to reduce carbon emissions and energy consumption by 2030. In fact, over 60% of those surveyed are targeting a 50% or greater reduction. Check out the latest net zero market trends in our survey.
Read MoreOur partnership with like-minded sustainability thought leaders is showing impact. We’ve joined with customers, leading technology companies, research institutions and government entities to build innovative solutions in pursuit of net zero carbon.
Powerhouse Brattørkaia in Trondheim, Norway >
Powering sustainability for the world’s northernmost energy-positive building.
Al Shera’a, Dubai, United Arab Emirates >
Powering the blueprint of the future for sustainable buildings.
Johnson Controls is powering sustainability for the tallest, largest and smartest net zero-energy government building in the world.
Colorado State University-Pueblo >
Powering the blueprint of the future for sustainable campuses.
Johnson Controls’ 20-year relationship with Colorado State University-Pueblo (CSU-Pueblo) continues with a recent contract to enhances sustainability through infrastructure and energy reduction without capital expenditures.
Our single strategy combines sustainability and digitalization to move you towards your carbon neutral goals. Our Digitalization white paper shows joined-up thinking can simplify operations and improve strategic focus.
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