Caverion & ABB partner to advance smart carbon-neutral buildings

Finnish sustainable building company Caverion has partnered with Swiss-based tech giant ABB to accelerate the development of energy-efficient and sustainable buildings.

The two companies cite the collaboration's aim is to bring advanced, smart solutions for achieving carbon-neutral buildings and reaching their sustainability targets.

ABB’s technology will be brought together with Caverion’s sustainable solutions and system integration capabilities and will expand both companies' presence in Northern Europe.

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The results of the partnership could be utilised in new buildings and modernisations to make them more automated, intelligent and sustainable in line with evolving customer demands. Optimal conditions in smart buildings increase also the end-user well-being and satisfaction.

“The agreement with Caverion demonstrates ABB’s ongoing commitment to enabling a carbon neutral society through the power of collaboration. Our joint capabilities will enable customers in the Nordics and beyond to benefit even faster from the latest in innovative smart building technology according to their individual sustainability requirements,” said Uwe Laudenklos, Marketing & Sales Leader for Europe, Canada, and Francophone Africa (ECAF), ABB Electrification’s Smart Buildings division.

"We at Caverion want to create sustainable impact for every customer with the solutions we design and deliver. We are excited to expand our collaboration with ABB as we share common goals toward a sustainable, carbon-neutral society. Together, we will provide our customers with state-of-the-art solutions for energy efficient and sustainable buildings," added Kari Sundbäck, Head of Services, Solutions, Digital and Sustainability of Caverion Group.

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ABB's Mission to Zero programme will form a major part of the collaboration. The programme is intended to be a scalable blueprint for smart building solutions combined with onsite renewable energy generation and storage. The key components of the Mission to Zero vision are to accelerate carbon neutrality and energy self-sufficiency through the use of metering & energy management solutions linked to electrification, distributed energy resources technologies and enhanced by renewable energy procurements.

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