October 31, 2011

City Chosen for Coveted Architecture Award

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BEIJING — Beijing, China will host the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize Ceremony next year, announced Beijing mayor Guo Jinlong and Hyatt Foundation Chairman Thomas Pritzker.

The award has been distributed annually for the past 30 years and 14 different countries have hosted the ceremony, with locations ranging from the White House in Washington D.C. to the Todai-ji Temple in Nara, Japan.

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Energy Efficiency Dashboard System

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Johnson Controls introduced the Panoptix solution, designed to make it easier and more affordable for facility owners and operators to achieve better building performance.

The system includes four key components. Its open technology platform aims to simplify collection and management of data from disparate building systems and other data sources, a suite of cloud-hosted building efficiency applications that work with any building management system.

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