Reduce Operational and Embodied Carbon in Commercial Buildings with Modern Building Controls

Arup, a global leader in sustainable engineering services, partnered with Schneider Electric on a technical research study to quantify how the performance of modern building controls in a Building Management System (BMS) could improve energy and car-bon reduction versus traditional building controls. Both controls solutions were based on Schneider Electric product offerings. This paper provides a synopsis of the broader study and findings showing, that in the scenario explored, modern BMS controls with room-level capabilities offered up to 39% of HVAC and lighting energy savings, which equates to approximately 26% reduction in whole building Energy Use Intensity (EUI). as well as 23% lower embodied carbon than traditional BMS controls.