What helps students learn? They need great teachers, books and today’s educational tools, of course, but they also need a conductive learning environment that’s healthy and safe – not to mention sustainable. That’s where we come in.
Johnson Controls has been serving schools and educational institutions, from elementary schools to high schools and beyond, for well over a century. In fact, the very roots of Johnson Controls lie in education: Warren Johnson, an American college professor in Wisconsin, created the first thermostat in 1883 to make classrooms more comfortable and more efficient. He went on to found Johnson Controls.
Today, we develop, install, and service a full range of building equipment, systems, and solutions for schools and campuses of all shapes and sizes. Our solutions include climate equipment, controls, and lighting; fire and life-safety systems; and security solutions and services. We provide robust, intelligent, and highly integrated systems for building and campus management as well as energy storage and renewable energy systems. We also offer creative ways for schools and school districts to finance infrastructure and operational improvements.
Every student, at every level, deserves the chance to succeed. A well-managed facility can help you give them that chance.
Keep classroom temperatures and lighting levels appropriate for learning, with enough fresh air so students and teachers can concentrate.
Increase asset uptime and minimize school maintenance and operating costs.
Advance toward net zero and other sustainability goals as you reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.
Train for emergency scenarios, mitigate hazards and protect against natural disasters.
Make it easier to gather and report required data, communicating transparently with your community.
Make hiring and retaining talent easier by creating a safe, well-maintained, up-to-date environment that lets faculty focus on education.
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At schools and campuses everywhere, safety has changed drastically in the past few years. Today’s students and their parents, along with teachers and administrators, want the peace of mind that comes from the kind of advanced security solutions we provide.
Trusted to protect school campuses across North America, our end-to-end integrated and connected security solutions maximize safety.
Featured Products and Solutions
Featured Products and Solutions
Featured Products and Solutions
As a leader and pioneer in healthy buildings, we have the expertise to evaluate the health of your spaces and then recommend appropriate solutions to meet your goals and fit your budget.
With solutions in the five key areas of indoor air quality—ventilation, filtration, disinfection, isolation, and monitoring and maintenance—Johnson Controls offers in-depth assessments, advanced solutions and accessible services to improve indoor air quality that supports health and learning.
Whitepaper: How to prevent indoor air quality from impacting learning in schools
Implement additional security technologies or retrofit existing security solutions to support a touchless environment.
Detect and distinguish skin temperature variations as a first line of defense in protecting student and faculty health.
Your security systems are exactly as reliable as the equipment you use. Johnson Controls brings you best-in-class solutions to enhance the safety of your campus, from visitor management systems to remote surveillance to complete alarm control and emergency alert systems.
Our extensive range of access control readers, doors, gates and devices assures the right configuration for every need, from multi-story urban buildings to sprawling suburban grounds. With mass communication measures integrating with access control, the chain of events is seamless when needed most.
We offer leading-edge perimeter protection and intrusion detection sensors, systems and services, matched to your school’s needs. And we can install new video surveillance systems, upgrade existing CCTV cameras, or add the latest security capabilities like remote smart phone and tablet viewing. Video and Intrusion embedded with object recognition uses AI to be ahead of harm’s way.
Deploy real-time communication systems to immediately warn both occupants and law enforcement. Stop weapons before they enter campus with state-of-the-art weapons detection solutions. Best-in-class alarm systems include infrared, photoelectric and motion sensors, intrusion detection panels, and easy integration with existing systems.
Every educational institution faces the pressing need to increase sustainability and decrease energy costs; a more efficient physical plant helps you address both. We help K-12 facilities achieve substantial gains by integrating systems within buildings and across campuses to create smart facilities infrastructure.
When building, IT, communications, security, fire, and classroom learning systems are connected and share real-time information, you can achieve efficiencies that would otherwise not be possible.
HVAC systems can automatically adjust based on daily schedules, reducing energy use and easing the strain on aging infrastructure. Integrated LED lighting fixtures further reduce energy use through occupancy sensing and daylight-harvesting controls. And from a single, central location, facilities teams can monitor and control all these systems simultaneously allowing for the most efficient use of resources at a time when capital budgets are limited.
We help you figure out how to make your project manageable. Whether it’s through our own finance arm, Johnson Controls Capital, or leveraging public funding, our experts know how to get you the monies you need to improve your school.
Keep your school buildings operating at peak performance with tailored services from Johnson Controls. Choose from individual and packaged offerings, including remote monitoring and fully embedded onsite operations and maintenance teams. Our goal is to keep your facility comfortable, efficient, safe and code-compliant.
If you think you must choose between critical facility improvements and sustainability, think again. This article outlines four strategic moves that will address your most pressing facility, efficiency and decarbonization challenges.
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Make the most of accessible digital tools and a full range of services to achieve your school’s goals. Contact a Johnson Controls expert to discuss improvements to your campus today.
1. Designing infectious disease resilience into school buildings through improvements to ventilation and air cleaning. The Lancet Covid-19 Commission task force on safe work, safe school, and safe travel.
2. Asthma-related missed school days among children aged 5–17 years. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
3. Active shooter incidents in the United States in 2021. The U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation.
4. Teacher turnover hits new highs across the U.S. Chalkbeat, co-published with USA TODAY.