Case Study: Major Retail Shopping Center identifies $50K+ energy-cost savings opportunities in 8 weeks with IBM Envizi ESG Suite

Major retail shopping center Over $50k energy cost savings opportunities identified over the first eight weeks of operation

Major Retail Shopping Center, a three‑level retail complex of 70,804 m2 with about 185 stores and a Johnson Controls BMS, faced complex, energy‑intensive HVAC systems with limited equipment‑level visibility and time‑poor facilities staff who struggled to detect root causes of wasted energy. To address this, the customer deployed IBM Envizi ESG Suite — specifically the Equipment Fault Detection Module — with software metering on 119 HVAC items.

IBM Envizi ESG Suite’s fault detection and metering quickly identified actionable issues — from out‑of‑hours operation and unoptimized AHU start/stop scheduling to motors running at excessive speeds, underused economy dampers, leaking control valves, poor chiller/boiler staging, condenser water set‑point drift and sensor failures — enabling an energy consultant to cover far more assets with fewer resources. In the first eight weeks IBM Envizi ESG Suite uncovered over $50k in energy cost savings opportunities, all achievable through low‑cost tuning (no CAPEX), with expected ongoing OPEX reductions and corresponding asset‑value improvement.