Implementing best practices in operations can significantly improve building efficiency. Today’s technologies create unprecedented energy data for analysis and action. The performance of building systems, operational changes and maintenance efforts can be tracked over time. These technology tools will be transformative if we continue to evolve our energy management practices, review the data, build our plans and act on new information. The goal? Bringing people and technology together to improve building performance.
The Johnson Controls Institute for Building Efficiency has been conducting the Energy Efficiency Indicator Study for three years in China and Australia. In 2013 Singapore was added. The first summary report on Asia reveals similarities and contracts between the three countries, and between Asia and other parts of the world. Respondents in Asia report that they are viewing and analyzing...
The theme at the Garrison Institute’s 2013 Climate, Mind and Behavior Symposium, “The Importance of Variation and Diversity in Sustainability and Climate Work,” examined how patterns of diversity in “opinions, attitudes, knowledge, behaviors, worldviews, social capital, networks, community, resources and other factors” affect efforts to combat climate change. Drawing...
Improving the energy efficiency of a building can result in gains in worker productivity in addition to generating energy cost savings. Salary expenses are generally a high proportion of a commercial entity’s costs. Even a small percentage gain in productivity, multiplied by the number of employees, can result in considerable savings. Comfort plays a key role in productivity.
If interest is high in building energy efficiency in the U.S., why aren’t investments in efficiency growing? Experts from local and federal governments, the private sector, and non-government organizations explored that question at a Roundtable Dialogue in Washington, D.C., convened by the Johnson Controls Institute for Building Efficiency and the Institute for Market Transformation, the...
Today’s technologies automate the collection, storage and retrieval of data from across multiple buildings and building subsystems. Technology makes that data available to decision-makers from the C-level, to facility managers, to occupants, informing decisions that improve building efficiency.
The 2013 Energy Efficiency Indicator (EEI) study, conducted by the Johnson Controls Institute for Building Efficiency, analyzes the energy efficiency technologies, practices and investments made by over 3000 executive decision-makers around the world. Conducted annually since 2006, this year’s respondents come from ten countries and a variety of commercial, industrial and institutional...
The 2013 Energy Efficiency Indicator (EEI) study, conducted by the Johnson Controls Institute for Building Efficiency, analyzes the energy efficiency technologies, practices and investments made by over 3000 executive decision-makers around the world. Conducted annually since 2006, this year’s respondents come from ten countries and a variety of commercial, industrial and institutional...
In May 2013, the Chambers for Innovation and Clean Energy (CICE) released a report, “Local Chambers as Change Agents: Creating Economic Vitality through Clean Energy and Innovation,” outlining ways in which chambers of commerce can help small to medium-sized business better understand and use energy. CICE provides information on a variety of topics, including energy efficient building...
