Office / Commercial Building
Maximize your office building’s marketability, profitability, energy efficiency, and sustainability
A commercial office building that works improves net operating income by providing high-performance environments that attract and retain tenants, improves office energy efficiency, and reduces operating costs and impact on the environment. It gives employees safe, comfortable surroundings that foster productivity and a more enjoyable work experience while enhancing brand image and shareholder value, and increasing savings through integrated infrastructure improvements.
Johnson Controls helps business and building owners achieve these results, and reduce energy and operating costs as much as 30 percent. For example, a 250,000-square-foot office building can save as much as $150,000 a year. To date, we’ve saved our private and public sector customers more than $19 billion in energy and operating costs and, over the last decade, Johnson Controls projects have cut greenhouse gas emissions by 16 million metric tons, equal to that of 1.3 million homes in one year.
For example, the owners of the Empire State Building are implementing a comprehensive retrofit program to make the building over 38 percent more energy-efficient, which reduces operating and occupancy costs, improves the bottom line, and attracts more high-end tenants. Plus, they’ll reduce their building’s carbon footprint considerably. The National Geographic Society has completed energy efficiency and water conservation upgrades at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. that save money and natural resources and reinforce the Society’s standing as an organization that cares about planet Earth.
Infrastructure improvements that deliver real results
Since Johnson Controls’ founding in 1885, its customers have benefited from products and solutions that make buildings more efficient, comfortable, sustainable, and profitable. You can achieve these results and benefits from solutions such as high-efficiency lighting, heating, and cooling systems and our Metasys® building management system which controls and integrates key mechanical and electrical building systems – HVAC, lighting, security, fire and safety – for optimum efficiency, comfort, and safety.
Your building can safeguard tenants, employees, and visitors with state-of-the art security, fire, and safety systems. And, by utilizing renewable energy such as solar, wind, and biomass power, you can reduce carbon emissions as well as the consumption of – and reliance on — fossil fuels.
The result is an energy-efficient commercial building that operates more profitably, and does so in a way that’s good for the environment, the building’s reputation, and your corporate image.
Financing private sector retrofits
However, for commercial building owners, focusing on energy efficiency must make good business sense. New financing models have emerged that make retrofit projects easier to capitalize, less risky for building owners and lenders, and mutually beneficial for building owners and their tenants. Through performance contracting, energy and operational savings can offset project costs and provide relatively quick payback on your investment. Once you’ve realized that payback, savings continue to flow to your bottom line, year after year. To make the most of your building’s potential, we’ll work with your facilities staff as well as with suppliers and contractors to bring your projects in on time and within budget.
Learn more
To learn more about energy efficiency in commercial buildings, read our case studies. To find out how we can help you make your office and commercial building work more efficiently, sustainably, and profitably, contact us, or try our operational and energy savings calculator today.