Honeywell Building Technologies

Honeywell Building Technologies (HBT) is a United States-based industrial business group associated with Honeywell International. It was formed in July 2016 as part of a reorganization of Honeywell’s businesses. The group was initially called Home and Building Technologies (HBT), a name later changed to Honeywell Building Technologies. The supplied company-history source describes it as one of Honeywell’s business groups; it is not presented as an independent publicly listed company. The business focuses on technologies used in buildings and building engineering. Its areas include heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), environmental controls, electrical technologies, home and building automation, building management systems, security and surveillance, and fire protection. The company’s official website presents connected building solutions and provides product-category and service sections, as well as customer account and support tools. Its site is localized for customers in several regions, including North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. HBT serves both public-sector organizations and private customers. The source describes integrated projects that bring multiple engineering systems together in a building management system (BMS), and gives a prison project for the Western Australian Department of Justice as an example. The group’s commercial offer therefore spans both technology products and services associated with building systems. The supplied materials do not identify a founder, headquarters, or a definitive current executive beyond the leadership information reported through March 2023.

Honeywell Building Technologies emerged from a restructuring of Honeywell’s business portfolio. The supplied history source dates the formation of the business group to July 2016 and says it was initially called Home and Building Technologies, or HBT, before taking the Honeywell Building Technologies name. The source places the group within Honeywell International rather than describing it as an independent company. The wider Honeywell portfolio was subject to public debate about its structure in 2017. The supplied account says investor Daniel Loeb called for a separation of Honeywell’s aerospace business in April of that year, and notes earlier antitrust concerns around a proposed combination with United Technologies. Honeywell later communicated plans to separate some business activities into two public companies: according to the account, the Securities and Exchange Commission was informed in October 2016, while the intention was announced publicly on October 10, 2017, with a target of completing the process in 2018. These portfolio-level developments provide context for the HBT name and organization, but the supplied material does not establish that HBT itself became a standalone public company. The source reports that Gary Michel was brought in to lead the direction in October 2017, after a long career at Ingersoll Rand. It lists subsequent leaders as Vimal Kapur, from 2018 to July 2021; Doug Wright, from July 2021 to March 2023; and Billal Hammoud from March 2023. It also states that Kapur became president and CEO of Honeywell International in March 2023. These leadership dates and titles are reported by the supplied history source. HBT’s business covers technologies used in building engineering, including HVAC and environmental controls, electrical technologies, home and building automation, security systems, and fire protection. Its projects can integrate several building-engineering systems into a building management system (BMS). The source cites a BMS implementation in prisons for the Western Australian Department of Justice as an example, and says the customer base includes government organizations and private clients. It also reports that, through SIPCO, Honeywell Building Technologies held more than 60 United States patents and four international patents; no patent list or date is supplied. For 2018, the source says HBT accounted for 22% of Honeywell International’s profit. For 2023, it reports year-over-year growth in building-solutions sales and project orders through the third quarter, alongside an increase in segment margin. The official website evidence shows a continuing commercial presence through connected-solutions messaging, products and services pages, regional localization, and customer support and account portals. The supplied materials do not specify a headquarters, founder, or the group’s later corporate status beyond identifying it as part of Honeywell.

• Home and Building Technologies formed

• Honeywell publicly announced portfolio-separation plans

• Gary Michel began leading the business direction

• HBT contribution to Honeywell profit reported

• Doug Wright took over business-group leadership

• Billal Hammoud reported as business-group leader

• Building segment performance reported for the third quarter

An integrated building-technology business combining controls, automation, safety and engineering systems for public- and private-sector buildings.

• Building automation and management systems

  Building controls and integrated building management systems that bring building-engineering systems together.

• Environmental and HVAC technologies

  Technologies for heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and environmental control.

• Security and fire-protection systems

  The supplied history identifies surveillance, intrusion alarms, and fire protection among the business’s areas.

• Building technology services

  The official site includes a services category and customer support resources.

• Honeywell portfolio-reorganization plansOther

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