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Higher Education

Creating Environments for Learning & Living

Student expectations are increasing. Is your budget keeping up?

When students select your institute, they’re choosing a home for the next several years. This is a life-changing decision. They expect a campus environment that provides a safe, quality education experience, from classrooms to residential halls. Wireless access, state-of-the-art lab facilities, one-card systems, social responsibility, and most important, safety and security are the necessities of campus life. To meet growing student expectations in a cost sensitive market requires continuing investments and additional revenue streams.

Johnson Controls delivers lifecycle programs designed to help you plan, construct and operate new and renovated buildings more efficiently– with less upfront money. We have a long history of providing sound budget and facility solutions that meet the unique requirements of colleges and universities, big and small, rural and urban, public and private. In fact, a professor founded our company more than 120 years ago. So with Johnson Controls, you can attract and retain students and staff and still save money.

Energy Performance Contracting in Education


When it comes to educational environments, Johnson Controls experience is unmatched. In fact our founder, Warren Johnson, was an educator himself who created the first electric thermostat to control the comfort in his classroom. From elementary schools to colleges and universities, we create environments that support student achievement and learning. Performance contracting provides a way to create quality learning environments without shifting resources in your budget.

The concept behind performance contracting is simple: install energy-efficient building systems that allow you to save money through reduced energy use and lower facility operating costs. Then leverage the savings to pay for the improvements over a specified period of time. Johnson Controls guarantees the savings and assumes the burden of performance. The result is guaranteed savings and an improved learning environment.