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strategy , Honeywell IAQ sensors can help provide visual confirmation of air quality within a building . These IAQ sensors can connect to Honeywell ’ s most advanced controller platforms to meet specificbuilding management needs as well as send data to Honeywell Remote Building Manager , optimising energy use whilst also improving IAQ .
Q . WHAT DO YOU SEE AS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR THE WIDESPREAD ADOPTION OF THESE TECHNOLOGIES ?

» Leaders of large multinational companies recognise that sustainability is now key to their success and that the energy efficiency of the buildings they own or lease is a strategic business priority as well as an environmental imperative . A huge challenge lies in the assessment of the enterprisewide installed assets for ageing , operating conditions and optimisation opportunities . This needs technologies that offer insights to drive capital deployment planning decisions that help to achieve the ESG goals .

If more sustainable building technologies were adopted , an immediate improvement would be the reduction to the overarching amount of carbon emissions from the built environment . As an example , we realised that plug loads drive a fifth of buildings energy consumption during operations , Honeywell recently launched a connected socket offering in the UK region . Considering the UK ’ s built environment is responsible for a quarter of the UK ’ s carbon emissions , the more sustainable building technologies are implemented the better the chances are at reducing this percentage and helping buildings meet their sustainability targets . technologymagazine . com 19