NHL Taps Honeywell To Make Arenas, Facilities More Energy-Efficient

The long-term goal is innovation for the next generation of hockey rinks at both the professional and the community level

The National Hockey League (NHL) today announced a new multi year global partnership naming Honeywell the Official Building Automation and Energy Management Partner of the NHL. Under the agreement, Honeywell will support the NHL's efforts of modernizing and creating more-resilient, energy-efficient arenas, practice facilities, and community rinks across North America.

Honeywell provides advanced, scalable, and AI-enabled building-automation technologies to help facilities manage increasing power and cooling demands, improve uptime for revenue-critical operations, and enable reliable, uninterrupted events.

Our business requires an unprecedented level of interconnectivity and flexibility to deliver best-in-class experiences vital to the game on the ice and to the fan experience off the ice, says David Lehanski, EVP, business development and innovation, NHL. The partnership with Honeywell unlocks proven technology and expertise that can help our clubs expand efficiencies, intelligence, and optimization while creating a blueprint for strategic, long-term investments to support community rinks that are essential to the future of our great game.

Honeywell's technologies can help venue operators optimize core systems, monitor performance in real time, and turn insights into action. The Honeywell Forge platform, for example, can help the NHL and facility operators improve energy efficiency, anticipate maintenance needs, protect critical systems, and reduce unnecessary downtime. It supports reliable performance across both the physical infrastructure and the digital experiences fans expect. The solutions integrate fire and life safety, security, frictionless access, and energy management to help safeguard fans, players, and staff while improving operational performance and the overall game-day experience. The partnership also supports community rinks by helping them operate more efficiently and maintain secure, well-managed environments that make hockey more accessible at the local level.

Today's hockey venues are highly complex, dynamic environments where efficiency and reliability directly impact performance and business outcomes, says Juan Picon, president, Americas, Honeywell Building Automation. By optimizing building automation and energy management, Honeywell is well-positioned to help the league, its teams, and local communities create more-resilient, digitally enabled facilities that reduce operating costs, protect revenue streams, and deliver seamless, secure, and high quality fan experiences.

Looking ahead, the partnership creates a foundation for long-term innovation across the hockey ecosystem and an opportunity to modernize building systems while protecting the data infrastructure that supports fan engagement and digital operations. Honeywell and the NHL will explore how advanced building automation, data driven insights, and integrated energy management can enable new concepts, such as a Rink of the Future : facilities that are more efficient, connected, secure and resilient. By reimagining how arenas and rinks are designed and operated, the collaboration aims to shape the next generation of hockey facilities.

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