Interested in Reducing your building’s carbon footprint?

Buildings undergo several phases over their lifetime, including design, construction, operation, and retrofits. In each stage, there are opportunities to improve energy efficiency and reduce emissions.

 Did you know that commercial buildings account for about 16% of all US CO2 emissions?

Building Efficiencies
You can improve energy usage patterns to reduce energy demand.
Energy-Efficient Upgrades
An Energy Recovery Ventilation System (ERV) can get you started while a heat pump or variable speed compressor will accelerate your decarbonization efforts
Controls Integration
Building Automation Systems provide a gateway to heating, cooling, lighting, and appliance control. Award-winning Open Blue technology empowers you to achieve net zero carbon and aggressive renewable energy goals.

Building Efficiencies

Reduce your carbon load by losing less energy to leakage

  • Improve existing building envelopes and window insulation to control air and moisture
  • Follow recommended maintenance and service schedule over the life of the product
  • In new construction, include more natural lighting into the design and source construction materials that have less embodied carbon
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Energy-Efficient Upgrades

Options with great impact include replacing inefficient equipment that burn fossil fuels and optimizing heating and cooling loads with variable speed compressors or an Energy Recovery Ventilation System.

Commercial Heat Pump

While boilers and furnaces rely on burning fossil fuels, heat pumps run on electricity, thus decarbonizing the heating process when paired with renewable energy.

Variable Speed Compressors

Using an inverter motor, the variable-speed drive can provide a wide range of capacities to match the compressor more closely to the load while enabling better dehumidification and minimizing power use across the entire operating range.

Energy Recovery Ventilation System

Provide increased ventilation rates and enable buildings to reduce heating and cooling loads

Controls Integration

According to the Department of Energy, integrating state-of-the-art sensors and controls into most commercial buildings can save as much as an estimated 29% of site energy consumption. These savings are achieved through high-performance sequencing of operations, optimizing settings based on occupancy patterns, and detecting and diagnosing inadequate equipment operation or installation problems. Furthermore, state-of-the-art sensors and controls can curtail or manage 10–20% of commercial building peak load. Here are some great building automation solutions to consider in helping you achieve your decarbonization and efficiency goals.

Featured Controls & Systems

Controls Methodology TEC300

Powerful Smart Building thermostat controller include ventilation features that allow building operators to confidently safeguard their buildings’ occupants, occupant sensor ventilation to reduce the rate of outdoor air flow when occupants are not present. And, when the TEC is paired with CO2 sensors, the demand-controlled ventilation feature allows the operator to choose a safe CO2 setpoint and monitor the building’s CO2 values over BACnet.

Building Automation Systems

Building automation systems can control heating, cooling, lighting, and appliances in commercial buildings. They cut greenhouse gas emissions by enhancing energy efficiency.

Higher Level Monitoring

OpenBlue is a complete suite of connected solutions that delivers impactful sustainability, new healthy occupant experiences, and respectful safety and security that combines our 135 years of building expertise with cutting-edge technology. It features a suite of tailored, AI-powered service solutions such as remote diagnostics, predictive maintenance, compliance monitoring, advanced risk assessments, and more.

Resources & Education

The Office of Energy Efficiency
The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is dedicated to improving the energy and material efficiency, productivity, and competitiveness of American manufacturing and the industrial sector.
The NEWSMakers Podcast: Decarbonization and the HVAC Industry
ACHR (Air Conditioning Heating Refrigeration) NEWSMakers podcast talks DeCarbonization with Mark Lessans, Sr. Director of Sustainability and Regulatory Affairs at Johnson Controls.
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
C2ES introduced Climate Innovation 2050, which brings together more than four dozen leading companies to examine pathways toward decarbonizing the U.S. economy.
AIM Act 2020
The AIM Act of 2020 directs the EPA to phase down US HFC production, requiring a transition to a new generation of low-GWP refrigerants.
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Johnson Controls introduces Verasys™ controls system, first plug-and-play solution that integrates HVACR equipment and controls

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