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Johnson Controls' Nesler and Myer

'If you can provide criteria and it's certified, it's attractive to tenants and it's demonstrated to have a strong financial payback, that's a great combination.'

By Ryan Clark | Updated on April 23, 2010

Recently Johnson Controls presented their Energy Efficiency Indicator survey, which polled 1,400 North American executives and managers about usage, plans and investments. The big news was that 52%, up from 46% a year ago, are planning to make capital investments in energy efficiency, while 60% are planning to make operating budget expenditures in efficiency programs over the next 12 months. However, there is a concern that limited capital would be available for investments to be made. Johnson Controls’ Clay Nesler, vice president, global energy and sustainability, Building Efficiency, and Dave Myer, president, Building Efficiency sat down with GlobeSt.com to discuss results of the survey and what it means for the future of sustainable commercial real estate.

GlobeSt.com: There has been a lot of discussion about water conservation lately. Did your survey touch on this at all?

Clay Nesler: While we did not specifically survey on water conservation, water conservation has a direct impact on energy through the pumping treatment and distribution of water. Certainly, many organizations that embark on energy efficiency retrofits usually include some conservation measures, whether that be low-flow faucets or low-flow toilets or water conservation and cooling towers and things such as that. We would view that to be embedded in many of the retrofit oriented questions, but we didn’t explicitly ask anything about water technology per se.

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