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With a focus on creating a more comfortable, safe, and sustainable world, our monthly newsletter keeps you updated on our latest products, services, and community involvement.
Charlotte Convention Center Exhibits Improved Comfort Control, Energy Savings and Payback

A Johnson Controls customer since its construction in 1995, the Charlotte Convention Center’s recent energy-efficiency initiative included the installation of a YORK® OptiSpeedTM low-voltage, variable-speed drive (VSD) equipped with the Opti$ave Energy Analyzer and OptiViewTM Graphic Control Center. The new equipment will provide $45,000 in annual energy savings and a 100 percent return on investment in just five years. 

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Charlotte Convention Center

At the “Tipping Point”: Why a Hospital’s Central Utility Plant May Need a Check-Up

Hospital systems today are faced with unprecedented demands, increasing costs and a high level of uncertainty about the future of healthcare. To cope and indeed thrive, many are using an innovative lifecycle approach to a critical element of their facility infrastructure: the central utility plant (CUP). Forward-thinking healthcare organizations are leveraging the expertise of third parties to maximize long-term performance, cost management and energy efficiency in the design and construction of their central utility plants along with operations and maintenance. 

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Central Utility Plant
University of California, Davis Reduces Consumption, Costs and Carbon Emissions

For two decades, the University of California, Davis has aggressively pursued energy conservation projects, most recently under the Strategic Energy Partnership program with investor-owned utilities such as Pacific Gas & Electric. Using these resources, UC Davis partnered with Johnson Controls on a design-build retrofit project that will reduce energy consumption by more than 2.8 million kilowatt-hours per year for an annual savings of $370,000 – a significant amount that can be directed back into the campus’s core mission of teaching, research and public service. 

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UC Davis
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George Washington University When it comes to creating a comfortable, carbon-neutral campus, Johnson Controls is at the top of its class.

See how we helped George Washington University (PDF) cut energy use and carbon emissions with high-efficiency HVAC equipment, maintenance services, and a Metasys® building management system. Now the university is well on its way to achieving its goal of carbon neutrality by 2040.
February 2012
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