Unlocking growth through sustainability

Chief Sustainability and External Relations Officer Katie McGinty recently sat down with Sustainability Magazine’s Jasmin Jessen to discuss how technology can transform buildings into smart, sustainable assets that benefit the bottom line and the climate.

Highlights of the article include:

• Leveraging the power of technology: Johnson Controls is harnessing the trifecta of efficiency, electrification, and digitalization to help buildings self-optimize, cut operating costs and energy, and even generate revenue when grid connected.
• Innovative real-world solutions: Johnson Controls worked with a Danish hospital to tap heat from a nearby water resource and put heat pumps to work, reducing energy-related costs by 80% and carbon emissions by 90%.
• Pioneering advanced engineering: By adapting magnetic-bearing technology originally used for submarines, the company has created data center solutions that enable increasingly dense compute with 40% less energy, consume zero water, have significantly smaller footprint and are lighter weight—considerations increasingly important as data centers go vertical to cut latency and deliver immediate actionable insight to their customers.

“When a building is responding instantaneously to command and instruction it can ensure healthy air for occupants, drive operating costs down and talk to the grid, potentially making the building owner money in selling energy capacity or physical energy back to that grid. The trajectory is exciting,” said McGinty.

Read more about how Johnson Controls is making an impact.