Honeywell launches Healthy Building Services to improve indoor environment quality

Honeywell launched a Healthy Building Services programme to help building owners and operators track and improve indoor environmental quality, improve overall building health and occupant well-being, and gain industry recognition for their efforts. Backed by assessments and certification systems from third-party organizations, the program enables owners and operators to assess building performance, take steps to improve indoor air quality, and assure their efforts have made a difference.

Indoor environmental quality  refers to the operations of a space to make it healthier, comfortable and energy efficient, including factors such as indoor air quality (IAQ), lighting and thermal conditions, among others. As a critical element of IEQ, air quality can impact occupant well-being and productivity, energy efficiency and real estate value.

“The importance of improving indoor air quality won’t go away as the pandemic subsides,” said Umar Khan, general manager of sustainability, smart cities and energy, Honeywell Building Technologies, Middle East, Turkey and Africa. “As more workers return to offices on a full-time or hybrid schedule, they are wanting reassurances from their employers that their well-being is being prioritized. We’re working to give building owners greater confidence in their building health data, more affordable ways to make improvements with ready now solutions, and an opportunity to take credit for the work they’ve done to make their buildings healthier.”

Honeywell Healthy Buildings Services will allow building owners to:

• Gain unbiased assessments from third-party organizations: Independent, third-party IEQ assessments with UL Solutions, aligned with the scope requirements of its UL Verified Healthy Building program as well as DNA-tracer based IAQ performance verification with SafeTraces provide a clear, unbiased perspective on the improvements required to improve overall building health.
• Take action to visualize, optimize and control IAQ: offer monitoring, analysis and improvement of IAQ performance supported by maintenance support and calibrations, allowing companies to address IAQ upgrades as operating expenses instead of capital outlays.
• Evaluate progress and assure quality of efforts: Honeywell’s WELL Accredited Professionals (WELL APs) evaluate 500+ evidence-based interventions as a part of the WELL standard throughout a building and recommend WELL strategies to help building owners and operators achieve WELL Certification or WELL ratings from the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI). Honeywell is one of the first building technologies companies to hold the WELL Enterprise Provider (WELL EP) designation, enabling it to provide this service to its customers.

“Honeywell’s designation as a WELL Enterprise Provider allows it to work closely and more efficiently with IWBI to deliver the many benefits of WELL strategies across real estate portfolios and entire organizations, further helping to improve and enhance people’s well-being at scale,” said Rachel Hodgdon, president and CEO of IWBI.

The Future of Health, Wellness and Innovation Forum, the inaugural innovation and wellness event hosted in December at the Museum of Future by Delos and Dubai Land Department, brought together industry experts to discuss how to continue to drive innovation in healthier spaces.

Paul Scialla, founder and CEO of Delos and founder of IWBI said, “Healthy buildings and occupant well-being is increasingly important and innovation can play a major role in supporting these efforts. Our recent event brought together health, wellness and innovation experts to exchange ideas and share strategies for a healthier and more sustainable MENA region. We were also pleased to recognize Honeywell for their contribution in driving innovation and wellness for the built environment.”

Healthy Buildings Services is part of Honeywell Buildings Sustainability Manager powered by Honeywell Forge, a ready now autonomous controls platform with a suite of applications that help building owners and operators meet two pressing needs – optimizing indoor air quality and reducing the environmental impact of buildings – with the aim of enabling customers to improve or meet their carbon reduction goals. Honeywell’s advanced portfolio can help improve occupant well-being, meet energy efficiency goals and, importantly, change the way occupants experience a building.