International. During the last AHR Expo 2022, Armstrong Fluid Technology announced that it had reached and surpassed its initiative to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions among its global customer base by 2 million tons.
In the process of this initiative, which was born in 2018, they have helped customers save 2.5 billion kWh of electricity use, which has resulted in cost savings of more than US$300 million. Achieving this goal is the equivalent of taking 600,000 cars off the road for a year, or offsetting the average annual CO2 emissions generated by 100,000 people.
"Since June 2018, when the initiative was first announced, Armstrong has worked collaboratively with our customers and partners to implement our innovative Design Envelope technology in the construction of mechanical plants around the world. The application of this technology turns new and existing facilities into ultra-efficient and sustainable systems," said Todd Rief, CEO of Armstrong.
"We have now powered Design Envelope Technology with our innovative Active Performance Management architecture. This 3-layer architecture adds the power of Digital Twins, Edge, and Cloud Computing to the intelligent Design Envelope team. The Active Performance Management application brings performance resiliency and transparency to system design and operations. This helps our partners and customers extract carbon from every stage of a building's life cycle. They can design a much smaller plant with a lower construction carbon footprint and drastically reduce their carbon emissions from operations. All this while using predictive maintenance to preserve building performance without adding costs. We would like to sincerely thank our partners and customers for helping us achieve this goal.
At the same time, we recognize that the work in this area is not yet over. Buildings around the world continue to be some of the largest contributors of GHGs. Through our core competencies of fluid flow, energy transfer, demand-driven control and digitalization, we aim to achieve a radical change in the performance of buildings throughout their entire lifecycle."
Armstrong also launched a global validation effort in 2018 across a wide range of applications and customer types. The results were validated by Bureau Veritas and made available as a set of case histories.
