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HONEYWELL TO HELP DRIVE AUTOMATION AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY FOR AUSTRALIA'S NEW MELTON HOSPITAL
25-year contract anchored by Honeywell Forge Enterprise Performance Management softwareConstruction of Victoria's first all-electric hospital supports state's
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[{"type":"text","content":"25-year contract anchored by Honeywell Forge Enterprise Performance Management softwareConstruction of Victoria's first all-electric hospital supports state's progress to achieving net zero by 2050MELBOURNE, Australia, Dec. 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell (NASDAQ: HON) has been selected as the building automation provider for the new Melton Hospital, a 274-bed facility that will be Victoria's first fully electric hospital. Honeywell will help provide comprehensive management for building automation systems to optimize the hospital's energy and operational efficiency outcomes.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nUnder a 25-year contract, Honeywell will install its building management solutions — including Honeywell Forge Enterprise Performance Management software — to help create a more energy efficient, automated and secure facility. As Victoria's first healthcare facility using only electricity as an energy source, the Melton Hospital will help minimise emissions and support the state of Victoria's progress to achieving net zero by 2050.\nThe integration of Honeywell Forge will enable condition-based maintenance that helps improve the resiliency of critical systems around the clock, reduce unplanned reactive work and lower energy costs. Through Honeywell Forge's machine learning capabilities that continuously study a building's energy consumption patterns, the hospital will be able to automatically adjust to optimal energy-saving settings without compromising critical air quality.\n\"Honeywell's technologically advanced building automation solutions combined with our decades of experience in total asset management make us uniquely positioned to support the building services for the Melton Hospital both today and over the next 25 years,\" said Lisa Whitehead, vice president and general manager, Pacific, Honeywell Building Automation. \"As a partner to the Melton Hospital, we are committed to helping deliver Victoria's first energy-efficient hospital that provides an optimum indoor environment with a best-in-class design built to address the critical needs of patients.\"\nThe Melton Hospital will embed world-class Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) technologies to maximise ecological efficiencies in all elements of the design, construction and operation of the development. Honeywell will manage the building in alignment with thes...