Honeywell to Help Drive Automation and Energy Efficiency for Australia's New Melton Hospital

Honeywell 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.

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.