Honeywell launches call for entries for first ME smart building awards

Mohamed Almousa

Honeywell, a diversified Fortune 100 cyber industrial company and a global leader in building automation and smart building technology, has announced the call for entries for the region’s first smart building awards.
The 2016 Honeywell Middle East Smart Building Awards aim to crown the region’s smartest airport, hotel, hospital, educational and retail facilities, as well as the leading high-rise office and residential buildings.
Entries are being accepted from facilities in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE, with the awards program being supported by strategic partner, MEED.
The 2016 awards program follows the recent Middle East launch of the Honeywell Smart Building Score — a first-of-its-kind global framework designed to assess the smartness of buildings based on the building systems they use to make them green, safe and productive — the three main indicators of smart buildings.
Entries will be accepted through an online building audit on the Honeywell website submitted by midnight on Sept. 29.
Onsite checks will be performed on the highest scoring buildings based on the criteria of the Honeywell Smart Building Score, which assesses the effective use of 15 technology assets in a facility. Honeywell will then name the smartest buildings in each industry — airports, hotels, hospitals, offices, residential, education and retail — as well as the leading building in each participating country. Winners will be announced at the Innovation Live! Summit held in Dubai in late November 2016. The event, which is part of the wider Innovation Live! initiative launched by MEED, is slated to be a key regional event bringing government and business innovators together to drive collaboration.
“At Honeywell, we believe that smart buildings are the foundations of smart cities,” said Mohamed Almousa, country manager, Honeywell Saudi Arabia.