Comprehensive Building Decarbonization Solutions

Kickstart your building decarbonization journey with Trane. Our experts combine the right solutions to help you reach your goals.

Overview

Decarbonizing Your Building and Infrastructure

Trane can help you create strategies to help you reduce emissions and environmental impact to support your sustainability and compliance goals.

  1. Energy Efficiency Optimization

    Reducing your building’s energy use lowers grid demand and carbon emissions—a key step in decarbonizing your building. Our solutions integrate high-efficiency equipment, smart controls, and energy management services.

  2. Electrification of Building Systems

    As the grid shifts to cleaner energy, electrifying building systems reduces emissions. We help you choose the right equipment, operate it cost-effectively, and maintain reliability and efficiency.

  3. Smart Refrigerant Management

    Reduce the impact of refrigerant-related greenhouse gasses by right-sizing equipment to minimize refrigerant needs and properly managing refrigerants to mitigate leaks.

  4. On-Site Renewables and Energy Storage

    On-site renewables like solar cut grid reliance and emissions. Storing excess energy—electric or thermal—helps minimize emissions and control costs by shifting usage away from costly peak hours.

Key Features

Complete Building Decarbonization Services

Trane provides complete building decarbonization - from assessment and planning, to funding, implementation, and verified performance.

  1. Assessing Goals, Facilities, and Operations

    Projects are measured by impact: improved spaces, empowered people, and realized visions.

  2. Decarbonization Planning & Sequencing

    Expert-led data-driven sequencing of solution implementation helps maximize impact while minimizing investment.

  3. Funding and Incentive Alignment

    Access government and utility incentives to maximize ROI on decarbonization initiatives.

  4. Turnkey Implementation & Services

    We deliver full-service installation, commissioning, and system integration, including ongoing performance measurement and reporting.

Demystifying Decarbonization: A Building Owner and Business Executive Quick Guide

Organizations face demands to create more efficient operations and achieve sustainability goals. But the process doesn't have to be a challenge. Here are three steps to successfully decarbonize your building and business.

FAQs

Your questions about building decarbonization solutions, answered.

To reduce your building's greenhouse gas emissions, your decarbonization strategies might include:

  • Making buildings more energy efficient by switching to electric HVAC systems
  • Keeping up with good operations and maintenance
  • Using low-GWP refrigerants and better refrigerant management
  • Adding renewable energy and energy storage
  • Choosing low-carbon building materials to lower embodied carbon
  • Using electricity from a decarbonized grid

Decarbonization is the big goal—reducing or eliminating carbon emissions from your building’s energy use. Electrification is one way to get there. When you electrify, you replace equipment that uses fossil fuels (like furnaces, boilers, or water heaters) with electrified equipment. When the energy from the grid is cleaner than the fossil fuels that were previously powering equipment, it reduces the overall Scope 1 emissions of the building. Electrification is a step toward decarbonization, and you can also decarbonize by improving efficiency or using renewable energy.

Operational carbon is carbon released from energy and water use amid the daily operations of a building (for example, heating, cooling, lighting, and water systems). Embodied carbon includes all the carbon emitted from making, transporting, and installing materials, construction, refrigerant leaks, renovations, and demolition—everything in a building’s life that isn’t part of regular operations. Together, these make up the building’s whole lifecycle emissions.

Customer Stories

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