Honeywell has launched integrated technology to help building owners in Asean improve the health of their building environments, operate more cleanly and safely, comply with social distancing policies, and help reassure occupants that it is safe to return to the workplace.

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

They provide building owners with more 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 innovations also provide transparency into a building’s health status to its occupants.

“We’re all facing a new normal, including how buildings are managed,” said Norm Gilsdorf, Honeywell’s president in the Asean region. “As leader in the digital transformation of IIoT, Honeywell is committed to supporting Asean’s development by providing the right solutions to its key challenges, chief among them, working with our customers in the market to support their well-being as building owners, operators, and tenants safely return to work.”

Honeywell’s Healthy Buildings technology is part of an effort by the company to help important sectors of the global economy recover. The products provide a holistic view of a building’s health based on key factors such as indoor air quality, occupant flow, personal protection equipment analytics, thermal screening, social distancing and frictionless access.

“Honeywell has developed outcome-based solutions that allow building owners to transparently address how they limit the potential for cross-contamination while supporting their business continuity needs in an uncertain environment,” said Sharad Yadav, vice president of Honeywell Building Technologies in Asean. “We’re giving them the data they need to confidently reassure their employees to accelerate their business operations. Returning to work will not be business as usual. Occupants will want credible information and increased visibility into how building technology is protecting their well-being and what has been done to help make the buildings they enter safer. Healthy buildings go beyond just energy efficiency to improve the well-being, comfort, confidence and productivity of the people who use them.”

Honeywell’s #HealthyBuildings Score analytics provide real-time alerts to building owners and operators so they can quickly address non-compliance issues or deal with infection-related incidents. The Score comprises building health metrics that can be provided to occupants in a simplified view on a dashboard. Healthy Buildings outcomes are powered by Honeywell Forge and monitored via the #HealthyBuildings Score.

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