The new Melton Hospital in Australia, a 274-bed facility that will be Victoria’s first fully electric hospital has engaged Honeywell as the building automation provider.
Honeywell will help provide comprehensive management for building automation systems to optimise 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.
“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,” said Lisa Whitehead, VP and general manager in the Pacific for Honeywell Building Automation.
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 with Western Health is the public operator of all clinical services and the Exemplar Health consortium, through a contract from the Victoria 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.”
