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Honeywell solutions aim to ensure health

Several parameters, ranging from air quality to space sanitation, need to be monitored to ensure a building’s safety for occupants. Honeywell says it is ahead of the game in offering a range of solutions to address the needs of the new normal.

01 August 2020

Honeywell Building Technologies (HBT) has announced an integrated solutions portfolio to help building owners in the Middle East improve the health of their building environments, operate cleanly and safely, comply with social distancing policies and reassure occupants that it is safe to return to the workplace.

By integrating air quality, safety and security technologies along with advanced analytics, Honeywell’s Healthy Buildings solutions are designed to help owners minimise potential risks of contamination and create business continuity by monitoring both the building environment and building occupants’ behaviours.

Honeywell says its new solutions provide building owners with greater control over critical health, safety and security factors to encourage sustained compliance with changing building standards, safety guidelines, government-issued regulations and a company’s risk management policies.

These innovative solutions also provide transparency into a building’s health status to its occupants, it states.

Bou Mitri ... holistic view of a building’s health.

“We are all facing a new normal – including how buildings are managed. We’re working with entities in the region to support well-being as building owners, operators and occupiers return to work, consider travel, visit shopping malls or healthcare facilities,” remarks George Bou Mitri, the Vice President and General Manager at HBT, Middle East, Turkey and Africa. “Honeywell has developed outcome-based solutions that allow building owners in the region to transparently address how they limit exposure to and the spread of viruses while supporting their business continuity needs. We’re giving them the data they need to confidently reassure their employees to accelerate their business operations.”

The Healthy Buildings solutions are part of a comprehensive effort among Honeywell’s businesses to come together to quickly develop solutions that are helping important sectors of the global economy recover. They provide a holistic view of a building’s health based on key factors such as indoor air quality, occupant flow, personal protection equipment (PPE) analytics, thermal screening, social distancing, anti-bacterial wiring devices and sanitation efficacy.

Honeywell’s Healthy Buildings solutions features two packages – one focused on indoor air quality and another on safety and security.

The Honeywell Healthy Buildings Air Quality package monitors, manages and controls key parameters to create a healthier built environment while still managing energy efficiency.

Elaborating on the package, Bou Mitri says: “The Air Quality package can help building owners implement the latest local guidelines; manage pressurisation, ventilation, temperature and humidity; gauge environmental and occupancy parameters; provide real-time insights on contaminant risk, alerts to change Hepa filters, cleaning and occupant behaviour; and control and optimise ultraviolet (UV) sterilisation, air filtration and air composition.”

The Safety and Security package features hardware and software that can help building owners minimise risk by monitoring, detecting and responding to potential issues using integrated security tools.

“The package can manage people flow and reporting, people counting, proactive property protection, thermal temperature screening and PPE mask detection; monitor and help sustain compliance with social distancing, space sanitation; and support contact tracing due to potential virus exposure by leveraging advanced video analytics and incident management workflows,” he says.

In addition, Honeywell’s novel #HealthyBuildings Score analytics, provides real-time alerts to building owners and operators so they can quickly address non-compliance issues or deal with infection-related incidents. The #HealthyBuildings Score comprises key building health metrics that can be provided to occupants in a simplified view on a dashboard.

“The Honeywell Healthy Buildings solutions can support the needs of any building and features specific solutions for premium commercial buildings, airports, hospitality, banking, stadium, healthcare and education sectors,” Bou Metri says.

The fully-integrated air quality, health, safety and security controls are backed by expert services and remote monitoring support. Customers can also leverage their existing infrastructure, including third-party solutions, to affordably enhance air quality and security outcomes, he adds.

Other businesses within Honeywell are introducing innovative new technologies to provide a healthier environment for customers and end users. For example, Honeywell recently announced temperature monitoring solutions, which can be rapidly deployed at the entryway of a factory, airport, distribution centre, stadium or other commercial buildings to quickly and efficiently identify whether personnel exhibit an elevated facial temperature.