OpenBlue Brings Smart Tech to Built Environs

CORK, Ireland -- Johnson Controls, a developer of technology for smart, healthy, and sustainable buildings, has released its 2024 Sustainability Report, marking significant progress and unwavering focus on decarbonizing the built environment.

“At Johnson Controls, our focus on sustainability is a force multiplier accelerating our strategy, cutting our operating costs, and helping us attract and retain the best and brightest talent in the industry,” said George Oliver, chairman and CEO.

“Putting our operating technology and OpenBlue digital platform to work achieving our own ambitious decarbonization goals enables us to be a trusted partner to our customers, accelerating their climate progress and success. I am proud of the progress we have made and am excited by the many initiatives we have underway that make the promise of sustainable buildings a reality.”

Buildings are responsible for nearly 40 percent of global carbon emissions and buildings represent some of the fastest—if not the fastest—paths to meeting global climate targets. Throughout the report, Johnson Controls highlights key innovations and initiatives that deliver energy efficiency and decarbonization in buildings.

This includes the solutions and services that form the smart building trifecta: energy-efficient equipment, clean electrification and digitalization.

These solutions are making a difference in buildings like Childrens’ of Alabama medical center, where OpenBlue and heat pump technologies are delivering $450,000 in annual savings and reducing the use of natural gas by 69 percent.

In Norway, OpenBlue is helping create the largest net energy-positive building in the northern hemisphere.

In Dubai Silicon Oasis, Johnson Controls chillers and AI-driven solutions are  reducing carbon by 30 percent and delivering guaranteed energy savings of 4.2 million kWh per year.

In 2023, OpenBlue Enterprise Manager and OpenBlue Central Utility Plant helped our customers avoid an estimated 70,000 metric tons CO2e, more than four times the avoided emissions of 2020.

“We have very purposefully created a company that is uniquely qualified to meet the needs of customers at every level—creating the products, installing and servicing them, investing in advanced technologies like AI, and creating the financing structure to support net zero journeys end-to-end,” said Katie McGinty, vice president and chief sustainability and external relations officer at Johnson Controls. “The numbers show we are having tremendous impact in cutting energy, emissions, and cost in our own operations and for our customers. We are moving the needle on net zero buildings fast and we realize every day that decarbonizing buildings is a winner for the climate and for smart, cutting-edge organizations that are determined to best in class.”

Johnson Controls attributes its global sustainability leadership to its global workforce. In 2023, Johnson Controls employees volunteered over 61,000 hours, the most volunteer hours recorded in one year since 2017, with more than 82% of the volunteer hours supporting one or more of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

To read the full 2024 Sustainability Report, go to johnsoncontrols.com/2024Sustainability.

Today, with a global team of 100,000 experts in more than 150 countries, Johnson Controls offers the world`s largest portfolio of building technology and software as well as service solutions from some of the most trusted names in the industry.

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