One of Asia’s largest diversified Real Estate Groups​

About

Leading multinational alternative asset management company focused on real estate, infrastructure and private equity.

Challenges

The Real Estate Group was looking for an enterprise analytics solution to achieve cost savings and enable a centralized command center.

Goals:

• Deliver energy efficiency in 46 buildings in Singapore and 30 buildings in India. The portfolio included a mix of commercial offices, retail and technology parks.
• Smart Facility Management vision driven by the Singapore Legislation for Building and Construction Authority to deliver facility management productivity.
• Decrease maintenance cost by centrally managing BMS vendors
• Improve coordination between various BMS suppliers, themselves and users
• Provide a single view to operate and maintain buildings
• Deliver data-driven maintenance to drive improved productivity in their facility management

Solutions

• Johnson Controls OpenBlue technologies delivering command and control center for effective management of global building portfolio
• Audited existing BMS and delivered improvement recommendations. Close collaboration with the customer to write fault detection monetization rules which drove measurable ROI impact.
• Installed technologies to absorb load fluctuation
• Established a metric for operators’ performance monitoring in case of fault detection
• Enhanced the fault detection and diagnostic rules with Johnson Controls deep domain knowledge. This has enabled the customer to pinpoint the root cause of the problem which assists in driving facility management staff productivity. 
• Datastreams pulled in OpenBlue from Security Video Management systems, Cleaning system and Lift system on top of HVAC systems from different BMS vendors
• Built a system to generate alerts by video analytics - vendors and users receiving alerts in real time 

Results

• Cost savings through energy efficiencies and integration of 12 BMS platforms
• Embedded automated and customized reports used by the Leadership team to drive outcomes focused on sustainability goals, maintenance spend and drive facility management staf productivity.
• 15.07% energy savings in Singapore against a baseline, leading to $470K of energy cost avoidance in the first 4 months
• Automated integration of equipment & CCTV data into one platform
• Over a 5-year duration, >$5M of savings projected across energy and operational benefits