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OpenBlue Net Zero Buildings​

Solve for Zero - Net Zero Leadership Made Easy

Design, Digitalize and Deploy to Achieve Net Zero

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.

Do you know how mature your sustainability practices are?

Do you know how mature your sustainability practices are?

We know businesses are striving to meet their sustainability goals. But we also know it can be hard to measure progress. Take two minutes to use our quick and easy maturity assessment, which will produce customized, targeted information and actions to help you realize real value from your environmental investments.

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A Glimpse at the Journey​

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. Watch our video to see what OpenBlue Net Zero Buildings can do for your enterprise.

Have a plan: Design, digitalize and deploy to achieve net zero

No two buildings are the same, meaning no two net zero roadmaps should be the same either. In the race to decarbonization, it is important to have a plan. With Johnson Controls, getting to net zero is made easy through three key areas: design, digitalize and deploy.
We offer one source, turnkey delivery; from design to digitalization, we recognize impact and deliver efficiencies through actionable metrics.

Design

Achieving your carbon reduction and renewable energy goals can be challenging. Often it may seem like you are aiming at moving targets, especially as regulations and innovations change so quickly. In the race to decarbonization, we can support you and design your next best steps with our industry-leading net zero expertise. We can design your roadmap and build your business case wherever you are on your sustainability journey. Tap into advice, assessments, best practices and benchmarks from your industry, learning about plans that succeeded and how to avoid common pitfalls. This will help you accelerate work on easy wins to show real progress fast and risk reduction for capital and investor relations.

We offer one source, turnkey delivery; from design to digitalization, we recognize impact and deliver efficiencies through actionable metrics.

Digitalize

Digitalization helps balance the traditional conflict between cost savings and meeting your sustainability targets, while additionally optimizing your buildings performance and creating cost savings. We design workflows to break down your data silos and create substantial energy savings that offset your net zero investment needs with our OpenBlue suite of connected solutions. Through impactful workflows and harnessing digital tools to increase speed and efficiency, we help you create a drop in corresponding CO2 emissions while leveraging various renewable energy sources. Our solutions leverage an open architecture that flexibly unifies existing or new building systems to enhance performance.

We offer one source, turnkey delivery; from design to digitalization, we recognize impact and deliver efficiencies through actionable metrics.

Deploy

Meeting standards and certifications, balancing short-term and long-term goals and lacking resources are all challenges people face when trying to achieve their sustainability targets. We offer one source, turnkey delivery; from design to digitalization, we recognize impact and deliver efficiencies through actionable metrics. By integrating and upgrading your building’s systems, we improve efficiency, engineer more sustainable operations, enhance air quality and reduce emissions, improve water infrastructure, add on-site renewable energy as well as grid-interactive capabilities. We utilize reporting and governance framework to document progress towards your goals and provide focus areas for future improvements.

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Design, digitalize and deploy to achieve net zero in eight steps

Do you have a plan to get to net zero? The race to decarbonization and the pathway to net zero is easier said than done. No matter where you are on your journey, our eight-step path gives you guaranteed outcomes to help get you there.

Learn about our eight-step path to decarbonization
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Invest in your sustainability journey with a predictable monthly fee and transfer the financial risk.

Our ‘As a Service’ model gives customers guaranteed outcomes and risk management models to achieve emission reduction commitments that ultimately lead to healthier buildings, people, places and the planet.

The OpenBlue Net Zero Buildings as a Service portfolio includes a full spectrum of sustainability offerings tailored to schools, campuses, data centers, healthcare facilities as well as commercial and industry players. 
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How to Win the Race to Decarbonization

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.

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Solution Spotlights

Thanks 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.

Case Studies

Our 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.

Humber River Hospital drives patient and staff satisfaction through OpenBlue Enterprise Manager.


Humber River Hospital, Toronto,
Canada >

Powering the blueprint of the future for sustainable hospitals.
Johnson Controls supports Humber River Hospital's sustainable mission through OpenBlue Enterprise Manager. 

Johnson Controls will continue a 20-year relationship with Colorado State University-Pueblo (CSU-Pueblo) through a recent contract that enhances sustainability efforts through an improved infrastructure and a reduction in energy demands across the 278-acre campus, without capital expenditures.


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.

 

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Digitalization is Your Path to Decarbonization

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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Impactful innovation centers that lead the Blueprint of the Future for healthy, safe and sustainable buildings.

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