Industry Report – Blueprint for Net Zero
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The state of the built environment
With large buildings accounting for as much as 60% of a city’s emissions, commercial buildings play a vital role in the push to net-zero.
Envisioning the future of the built environment requires us to consider where the commercial building sector is currently and where we need to go to achieve a net-zero and decarbonization reality.
- Nearly two-thirds of buildings that exist today will still exist in 2050
- Energy demand is expected to grow 18% by 2050
- Large buildings generate 60% of a city’s emissions
- The average age of a commercial building is 44 years old
Xylem’s Bell & Gossett’s new industry report, “Blueprint for Net Zero: Innovations Driving Decarbonization in the Built Environment,” illustrates our commitment to sustainability and the innovative strategies driving decarbonization. As part of the Building Better Futures platform, the report explores strategies, insights and partnerships essential to fostering resilient, sustainable communities and advancing a net-zero future.
Net-zero building blocks
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Buildings
To hit modern energy goals, we must see buildings as opportunities. This starts with assessing net-zero investments for their potential to become a viable business strategy.
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Solutions
From digitalization to predictive maintenance, a focus on holistic, end-to-end system design is critical to reducing carbon footprint and optimizing system efficiency.
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Technologies
When employed strategically, new technologies can transform the built environment by fostering real-time insights and collaboration
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Environment
Reimagining the cities that we build, live and work in is critical. Doing so means harnessing renewable and creative solutions that prioritize water and energy conservation.
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Communities
Designing for the future requires that we transform today's infrastructure, fostering partnerships that advance training, education and alignment around common objectives.
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Partnerships
Decarbonization cannot happen without progressive, partnership-driven solutions, and achieving it involves uniting diverse stakeholders to spur collective action.
More net-zero content
Interested in learning about decarbonization and sustainability? View additional resources from Xylem exploring future-proofed technologies, our mission to achieve net-zero and building better futures.
Featured contributors
Check out our comprehensive report exploring the challenges, insights and trends driving sustainability and decarbonization in the built environment and emerging strategies and approaches to ensure an environmentally responsible future.
Featured industry expert insights
“The goal is to prove to others that improving HVAC&R systems and improving building science are essential to our survival and to creating a sustainable built environment.”
ASHRAE president and inaugural member of ASHRAE’s Integrated Building Design Technical Committee
“A focus on end-to-end solutions that holistically address the built environment will be crucial to effectively address the challenge of decarbonization.”
Xylem, market development manager
“Our approach has always been ‘What is achievable?’ If the goal is investing in those properties to make them more sustainable and more high performing, then that’s where the money should go.”
Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA), former president and chief operation officer