Connected Futures: Practical Innovation for Project Challenges

Join Tech Electronics and technology experts from Honeywell for an afternoon bringing together architects, engineers, general contractors and other construction industry professionals for education, networking and conversation.

Through real project scenarios, we’ll explore challenges impacting today’s projects and how emerging technologies and smarter design decisions can help address them. 

DISCUSSION TOPICS

1. Detecting & Managing Risk Earlier in Complex Environments
   What happens when emerging fire risks are addressed too late in design? Explore real-world considerations for data centers, industrial facilities and battery energy storage systems and how evolving detection strategies and code requirements are changing the approach to risk.
2. When Labor Becomes a Design Consideration
   A lower material cost doesn’t always mean a lower installed cost. We’ll look at how labor shortages, installation complexity and compressed schedules can impact project delivery and how technology and design decisions can help reduce those challenges.
3. Beyond First Cost: The Real Impact of Value Engineering
   Value engineering and alternates can create savings on paper, but what happens when labor, schedule, performance and long-term operations are considered? We’ll examine the tradeoffs through real project scenarios and discuss how to evaluate total project impact, not simply equipment cost.