Honeywell provides comprehensive M&E maintenance services at Congress House (TUC headquarters and conference centre in London). 

BRACKNELL, UK, 29 MAY 2001 – Honeywell Home and Building Control is providing a comprehensive mechanical and electrical (M & E) maintenance service at Congress House, the headquarters and conference centre of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Great Russell Street, London. The three-year £100,000 service contract includes boilers, air handling units, fire, security and CCTV at the "Grade 2 star" listed building. It follows the installation of a Honeywell Excel Security Manager system for access control.

"Honeywell delivers a service that ensures reliability, efficiency and optimum comfort conditions, so maximising the TUC's return on investment," commented Karen Robinson, TUC Estates Officer. "We required a service contractor that would look after all our building systems – including HVAC, fire, security and CCTV – supplied by various companies. We had worked recently with Honeywell, which had just supplied its Excel Security Manager system for access control. Our project managers, Ove Arup & Partners, advised us in our choice of Honeywell." 

Clive Lee, Associate, of Ove Arup & Partners in Bristol, said, "Honeywell were selected because their price was well supported with the requested information and was in the range predicted by our pre-tender estimate. 

In addition, their response to our specification at tender stage was clearly written and addressed all the key issues without distracting extraneous information."

In addition to housing the TUC's headquarters and a number of other tenant companies and organisaitions. The TUC also operates a major conference venue, Congress Centre.

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is the national centre representing 76 trade unions in Britain with a combined membership of nearly 7 million working people. 

Honeywell Home & Building Control is a US$5 billion business that provides products and services to create efficient, safe, comfortable environments. The business offers controls for heating, ventilation, humidification and air-conditioning equipment, security and fire alarm systems, home automation systems, energy-efficient lighting controls and building management systems and services.

Honeywell is a US$25-billion diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products; power generation systems; specialty chemicals; fibres; plastics; and electronic and advanced materials. The company is a leading provider of software and solutions and Internet e-hubs including MyPlant.com and MyFacilities.com, and it is a founding member of Cordiem, LLC, an aerospace industry business-to-business Internet exchange and applications service provider. Honeywell employs approximately 125,000 people in 95 countries and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol HON, as well as on the London, Chicago and Pacific stock exchanges. It is one of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is also a component of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. Additional information on the company is available on the Internet at www.honeywell.com. 

This release contains forward-looking statements as defined in Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including statements about future business operations, financial performance and market conditions. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties inherent in business forecasts as further described in our filings under the Securities Exchange Act.

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