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Make Your Buildings Work

Buildings that work benefit owners, occupants, and their communities. They operate efficiently and profitably and provide comfortable, safe living and work spaces – all with minimal impact on the environment. Johnson Controls makes buildings work – buildings of all kinds – including yours. It’s something we’ve done since the company was founded in 1885, with the invention of the first electric room thermostat. Take, for example, the Empire State Building, which is advancing from one of the world’s most admired buildings, to one of the most energy efficient. If it works there, it can work anywhere. Explore our web site to learn more about how Johnson Controls can help you enable your building to operate more efficiently, save energy costs, reduce carbon emissions, all while providing quality, productive, sustainable environments.

Retrofitting a school district for the 21st century. At no cost to taxpayers.

Impossible? Not for Michigan’s Houghton-Portage school district that wanted to create a 21st century learning environment for students and faculty, without burdening taxpayers. To meet this challenge, Johnson Controls developed a retrofit plan guaranteeing energy and operational savings that could be put towards a better use…running the school district. How was this accomplished? Through retrofits and upgrades to the lighting, HVAC and water systems. The energy efficiency improvements alone generated $110,000 in operational savings in the first year. And, over the next 20 years, will deliver $3 million in total savings. Best of all, since the project was entirely funded through a bond referendum, Houghton-Portage was able to put the savings where they could make a difference…its learning environment.

A U.S. Marine base generating $138 million in energy savings

Sound impossible? Not for the U.S. Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, California, in collaboration with Johnson Controls. Facing a mission-critical situation, at the end of the power distribution line in the Mojave Desert, the Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command had been impacted by power disruptions. With temperatures in excess of 120 degrees in summer and below freezing in winter, their challenge was to make the base energy self-sufficient and reduce costs. Their plan? To install Johnson Controls’ Metasys® building management system to control energy use, a seven-megawatt combined heat and power generation system, and one of the highest capacity non-utility solar power plants in the world.
The result? Johnson Controls guarantees nearly $6.9 million in savings annually—$138 million over 20 years.

$40 million invested; $55 million saved

University of Massachusetts Amherst has a long, proud history of attracting the best and the brightest. To maintain this reputation, the university had to improve its buildings and make their academic environment and campus the best they could be. UMass worked with Johnson Controls to identify measures that would positively impact energy and water consumption and at the same time improve building occupant comfort. The result, a $40 million investment covering equipment, upgrades and building infrastructure improvements that will result in $55.5 million in savings over ten years. With the savings from these projects, the university has been able to implement improvements to create learning environments that foster academic excellence.

$4.9 Million in Savings Never Looked so Good

Facing the challenges of the 2009 economic environment was daunting. Agilent Technologies,
Santa Clara, California had their own aggressive agenda. Reduce facility operating expenses by 22%. Improve the utilization and management of its global real estate portfolio. But where to begin? Partnering with Johnson Controls Global Workplace Solutions, Agilent reinvented its real estate, energy and facilities management strategies. By reshaping workspace configurations, Agilent reduced its real estate costs, generating immediate savings across 11 million square feet of office and manufacturing space, at 220 locations, in 33 countries. This approach helped Agilent realize its financial and operational objectives, including a $4.9 million reduction in operating costs in just seven months.

A hospital that delivers great patient care and $10.9 million in savings

That’s what Phoenix Children’s Hospital is achieving. How? Through a collaboration with Johnson Controls, the hospital is saving energy and operating costs on its newly expanded facilities. By investing these savings towards what it does best—putting patient care above all else—the hospital is better able to serve the growing needs of this local community. Johnson Controls, working with a team of design, technology and construction experts, created an innovative new central utility plant that reliably delivers heating, cooling and emergency electric power for more than 1.1 million square feet of the hospital’s facilities. The hospital will save $10.9 million in energy and operational costs over the next 15 years.

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Making Buildings Work

To hear about how you can save money and reduce carbon emissions through increasing energy efficiency in your building, listen to Dave Myers, President of the Building Efficiency business for Johnson Controls.