- 25-year contract anchored by Honeywell Forge Enterprise
Performance Management software
- Construction of Victoria's
first all-electric hospital supports state's progress to achieving
net zero by 2050
MELBOURNE, 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.
Under 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.
The 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.
"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."
The 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 these efficiency goals, optimizing peak energy
demand, energy consumption and water consumption costs so that the
project remains flexible and adaptable to changing social and
climatic conditions.
The new Melton Hospital will have a 24-hour emergency
department, ambulatory care, maternity, neonatal, mental health and
radiology services, as well as a new education and training hub for
doctors and nurses in Melbourne's
western region.
The hospital is being delivered as a public-private partnership:
Western Health is the public operator of all clinical services and
the Exemplar Health consortium, through a contract from the
Victorian Government, is responsible for the hospital's financing,
design, construction and maintenance for 25 years following the
facility's construction completion. The Exemplar Health consortium
includes Capella Capital as sponsor and investor; Lendlease
Infrastructure Investments and Invesis as investors; Lendlease as
the builder; and Honeywell and Compass Group as facilities and
maintenance management providers.
"This work will help deliver a critical uplift in the capacity
of public health services in Melton," said Sarah Neaves, director, Capella Capital. "As
Melbourne's outer west continues to grow, the Melton Hospital
project will allow the hospital to better support its patients,
families and staff. We look forward to working closely with the
Victorian Government, Western Health and consortium members to
deliver this critical piece of health infrastructure."
Honeywell is experienced in total asset management and
public-private partnership projects, with a more than 30-year
history working in Australia to
support commercial buildings, healthcare and critical
infrastructure. Honeywell's role builds on its track record
developing building automation solutions for the healthcare
industry and also supports the company's alignment of its portfolio
to three compelling megatrends, including automation and the energy
transition.
About Honeywell
Honeywell is an integrated operating
company serving a broad range of industries and geographies around
the world. Our business is aligned with three powerful megatrends –
automation, the future of aviation and energy transition –
underpinned by our Honeywell Accelerator operating system and
Honeywell Forge IoT platform. As a trusted partner, we help
organizations solve the world's toughest, most complex challenges,
providing actionable solutions and innovations through our
Aerospace Technologies, Industrial Automation, Building Automation
and Energy and Sustainability Solutions business segments that help
make the world smarter and safer as well as more secure and
sustainable. For more news and information on Honeywell,
please visit www.honeywell.com/newsroom.
Contacts:
Honeywell
Dawn Wotapka
(631) 943-3782
dawn.wotapka@honeywell.com
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