Green Buildings solution: Build high performance buildings that achieve sustained results

Value proposition

Challenges
Whether building a new building or operating / retrofitting an existing facility, asset managers, property developers, property managers, and occupants are under mounting pressure to achieve higher performance with lower capital and operating costs. At the same time, they are also complying with strict regulations, creating green building certification strategies, adopting evolving technologies, and sustaining increased business productivity.

Solution in brief
Our EcoStruxure^TM solution for green buildings delivers reliable integration between building infrastructure systems, services, and applications that improves asset value, rental value and financial performance (profit), while minimising environmental impact (planet), and creating safer, healthier places to work and play in (people).

Value proposition
People first
After all, the purpose of buildings is to provide a safe healthy environment for people to work and play in!
• Increase employee comfort, security, and productivity, thereby increasing business output by providing a safe and healthy working environment with high quality indoor climate and personalized climate and lighting control

Planet focus
Do more with less of our shared resources
• Reduce energy use and CO₂ emissions from 30%-to net zero by integrating energy management and renewable energy strategies
• Improve public, market, and leadership efficacy perceptions of your business by reducing your environmental impact and fulfilling corporate social responsibility goals

Profit matters
Shift to a life cycle value equation—sustained value and low cost for the life of the building
• Because green buildings are in high demand, you can benefit from green value:
    - Protect and increase asset value 
    - Increase rental rates
    - Increase occupancy and tenant retention rates
• Save up to 30% on operating expenses by reducing energy usage and ongoing life cycle costs
• Save up to 25% on capital expenses by reducing cabling, installation, and commissioning costs associated with siloed building systems
• Create a competitive advantage by reducing operating costs and creating goodwill with customers, tenants, employees and stakeholders

Differenciation factors
Technology for the future: integrated, open, connected, flexible
• Schneider Electric is the only technology and services provider that delivers comprehensive integrated building solutions through EcoStruxure system architecture, which guarantees integration of energy management, power management, building and security management, IT room management, renewable energies, and electric vehicle charging
• Holistic view of all building technical systems
• Customised dashboards for each specific user and role
• Ability to integrate with facilities portfolio management system
• Open to advanced technologies for higher performance at building, city and enterprise facilities portfolio level: smart grid, remote energy management, asset management, space management

Enabled by people and processes
• One Schneider Electric point of contact for the whole project
• Expertise to fully participate in the integrative design/build process, a crucial first step in delivering on the promise of green
• Certification consultants that guide customers throughout the certification process
• Highly skilled energy management engineers
• Commitment to providing value to the triple bottom line

Committed to continuous innovation for the purpose of co-creating a sustainable future with our customers and partners
• Early references in advanced buildings—delivering on the promise of a carbon-neutral, positive-energy future
• Commitment to an open systems approach, to maximise customers' existing investments and allow for the adoption of emerging technologies
• R&D and participation in net-zero buildings, eco-districts, and eco-cities
• Collaboration with customers, architects, engineers, global alliances, and local partners—to co-create the right solution for the long term, for all stakeholders

 

Architecture

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Main characteristics

An EcoStruxure system architecture for green buildings enables the integration of five key domains of your enterprise—Power, IT Room, Process & Machine, Building and Security Management. It acts as a solution ecosystem, delivering guaranteed compatibility across key application areas and leveraging open standards across both Schneider Electric and third-party offers.

Our single, open platform enables significant savings on design, installation and commissioning time, as well as on hardware and software costs. It can accommodate new technologies as they emerge without the need for major reconfiguration. And because EcoStruxure integrated system architecture can be applied to both retrofits and new construction, you can achieve significant savings on capital and operational expenses across your entire enterprise.

Most importantly, our EcoStruxure solution for green buildings enables the aggregation of data from multiple systems—allowing you to see, measure, and manage energy use across your building portfolio.

In order to ensure the accurate measurement and management of energy, provide comfort and security, as well as maintain flexibility for space use modifications, our green building solution architectures are aligned to a building's "similar use" areas. Applying this design principle consistently and thoroughly to HVAC control, lighting control, security, IT networks, electrical power networks, and energy metering is key to simultaneously controlling energy consumption, providing comfort to occupants, preserving flexibility, and reducing cabling and device costs by sharing them between systems.

Schneider Electric is the only company that is able to provide solutions from enterprise-level software down to hardware components across the five critical domains of your enterprise. As your energy expert and green partner, we also offer a full suite of services to help you sustain your energy management objectives throughout the life cycle of your facilities. Our expertise has helped customers worldwide significantly reduce energy consumption and even achieve carbon neutral, net-zero energy, or positive energy status.

Design phase expertise
• Integrative design/build process
• Green and energy certification
• System design, installation, and commissioning

Operating phase expertise
• Comprehensive energy management services throughout the building's life cycle