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Create safe, healthy, inspiring schools

We develop, install and service solutions for schools and campuses

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.

Make your buildings your partner in education

Today’s schools are challenged to provide a safe, secure and healthy environment, recruit and retain staff, promote equity, and address aging infrastructure—all within budget constraints and mandates. Johnson Controls transforms your building to help address these challenges. We bring together core building systems, data platforms and applications, smart edge devices, and ecosystem partners to move you toward essential outcomes.
Enhance student learning
Enhance student learning, comfort and productivity.

Keep classroom temperatures and lighting levels appropriate for learning, with enough fresh air so students and teachers can concentrate.

Reduce lifecycle costs
Reduce operating and lifecycle costs.

Increase asset uptime and minimize school maintenance and operating costs.

Optimize building performance
Optimize building performance, energy efficiency and sustainability.

Advance toward net zero and other sustainability goals as you reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.

Improve school safety
Improve school safety and security.

Train for emergency scenarios, mitigate hazards and protect against natural disasters.

Meet code compliance
Meet code compliance.

Make it easier to gather and report required data, communicating transparently with your community.

Increase faculty acquisition and retention
Increase faculty acquisition and retention.

Make hiring and retaining talent easier by creating a safe, well-maintained, up-to-date environment that lets faculty focus on education.

Best-in-class solutions to improve satisfaction, sustainability and student success

A good environment facilitates learning

Smart buildings and sophisticated HVAC equipment and controls make a tremendous difference in the learning environment. With the largest portfolio of HVAC equipment and controls in the world, we can design a solution to meet your facility’s demands, including comfort and indoor air quality (IAQ). 

Poor HVAC Commissioning & Maintenance Undermine Efforts to Improve IAQ

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Increase school security in today’s world

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. 

K-12 Security assessment developed with Partner Alliance for Safer Schools (PASS)

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Life safety is Job #1

We set the bar higher with advanced technology for systems that are more innovative, flexible and scalable. From addressable notification appliances to connected fire panels to connected smart sprinklers, our systems help protect your people, assets and facility, and support efficient and non-disruptive compliance testing.

K-12 Education Fire and Life Safety Systems

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Make your buildings perform better

With connectivity native in much of our equipment portfolio, we make it simple to integrate your systems to easily enable remote monitoring, diagnostics, and controls; optimize building performance and energy management; simplify third-party integrations; and achieve a single view into asset health and performance across your building, campus, and district.

Connected Controls for K-12

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Healthy environments

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.

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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

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Implement additional security technologies or retrofit existing security solutions to support a touchless environment.

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Thermal cameras

Detect and distinguish skin temperature variations as a first line of defense in protecting student and faculty health.

Safe and secure campuses

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.

Access control, mass communication & visitor management
Access control, mass communication & visitor management

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.

Integrated video surveillance, AI & Intrusion detection
Integrated video surveillance, AI & Intrusion detection

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.

Emergency alert systems
Emergency alert systems, active shooter/emergency response preparedness & weapons detection

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.

Sustainability, enterprise management and optimization

 

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.

Sustainability enterprise management

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.

Funding solutions make advanced technology accessible

 

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.

  • Expert insight into government funding programs. We partner with your district to prioritize needs, consider funding alternatives, and navigate application and reporting requirements.
    • The ABCs of ESSER Funds - Explore our Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) resource page to get a jump start on your plan for meaningful facility improvements with your relief funds before the funds expire.
    • Renew America’s Schools - With funding available through the Department of Energy’s Renew America’s School grant program, a trusted partner can support you in making high-impact energy efficiency and innovative technology improvements to maximize equity, improve teacher and student health and optimize learning.
  • Performance contracting: Use guaranteed energy savings to fund infrastructure improvement projects over a set period.
  • Contingent payment program: Have Johnson Controls take on the risk of financing infrastructure projects. Upon completion, you can make scheduled payments over a set term to maintain a flat budget.
  • Buildings/infrastructure/Net Zero as a Service. Transfer the costs and risks of building ownership to Johnson Controls—letting us manage everything from day-to-day operations to individual assets to energy use and decarbonization.
  • Private-public partnership (P3): Collaborate with Johnson Controls and maintain a fixed cost of occupancy throughout the contract.
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Transform operations with expert service

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.

Four affordable steps to a sustainable school

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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Let’s talk about your school

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.

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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.