Honeywell has completed the third stage of Scottish Widows' £1.8 million investment in building systems and infrastructure at its new £60 million headquarters complex in Edinburgh
Honeywell has completed the third stage of Scottish Widows' £1.8 million investment in building systems and infrastructure at the new £60 million Scottish Widows headquarters complex at Port Hamilton, Edinburgh. In the first stage, the control company's subsidiary, Honeywell Network Solutions, installed a complete structured cabling system with a total of 16,000 outlets for all the site's services, voice communications and datacomms. In the second, Honeywell Enterprise Service Solutions supplied and installed security and CCTV systems.

The third stage comprised the installation of 82 Honeywell Excel 5000 outstations, linking to 7000 hardware points throughout the building, to replace the original non-Honeywell building management system stations.

Honeywell also installed seven networked PCs that provide access to the building management system.

Honeywell Network Solutions employed the SYSTIMAX structured cabling system from Lucent Technologies across the 50,000 square metre site, which comprises four office buildings, shops and restaurants and an underground car park.

Honeywell Network Solutions has been a reseller of Lucent Technologies' cabling products since 1987 and, in January 2000, Lucent named Honeywell as its VAR (value-added reseller) of the Year, for the fourth year running.

Scottish Widows' facilities manager, Bob Bambery said, 'Our priority was to have a building that can support Scottish Widows' drive for producing more flexible products in an ever-changing marketplace.

Communications and data are the backbone of the service we provide to our customers, so we need a building that can cope with a many changes and reorganisations.

The cabling infrastructure provided by Honeywell satisfies our needs in the best possible way.'