Johnson Controls Introduces Software for Targeting Building Efficiency Retrofits
Tool allows remote identification of energy savings opportunities
CORK, Ireland — Johnson Controls and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) announced the release of the Building Efficiency Targeting Tool for Energy Retrofits (BETTER) to the public. The tool allows building owners and managers to rapidly convert readily available monthly building energy consumption data into specific recommendations for improvement. This analysis can be performed without the need for on-site audits or inspections, allowing many currently unemployed energy efficiency workers to continue to plan and develop building retrofit and commissioning projects.
"Over 400,000 energy efficiency workers in the U.S. are currently unemployed due to the COVID-19 pandemic because they can't get into buildings to do energy audits," said Clay Nesler, vice president of global sustainability and regulatory affairs, Johnson Controls. "This tool can help the efficiency industry get a jump start of identifying and developing projects that show the greatest opportunities for cost effective savings."