Smart building technology again showed increased investment. 70 percent of organizations invested in building control improvements, the highest percentage of any measure and an increase of three percent from the previous year.are the countries placing the highest priority on resilience. When making energy and building infrastructure investments, the vast majority (82 percent) rated it extremely or very important. Resilience is becoming a greater priority and we anticipate this will continue as the economy rebuilds.Green building certification continues to grow, with 76% planning to achieve voluntary certification compared with 58% in 2018. Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of respondents noted that greenhouse gas footprint reduction is extremely or very important, up from 71 percent last year. Sustainability issues continue to drive investment in building technology around the world."When we fielded this survey in 2010, we found that the economic recession had a surprisingly limited impact on energy efficiency investment." "Although we are in a very different environment than we were when the survey was fielded, we do see commitments to energy efficiency as promising and hope when the economy rebounds, these investments will come to fruition," said Clay Nesler, vice president of global sustainability and regulatory affairs at Johnson Controls. The survey – in its 13th year – was completed in December 2019 prior to the widespread outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic, and at the time, found that almost two-thirds of global respondents (64 percent) planned to increase investment in energy efficiency, renewable energy and smart building technology. MILWAUKEE, Ap/PRNewswire/ - Today, Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI) released the findings from its 2019 Energy Efficiency Indicator study to gauge respondents' plans to invest in energy efficiency.
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