Building Automation Markets in Asia - Where are the Hot Spots?

Business Wire, July 28, 2008

SINGAPORE -- Frost & Sullivan's Environment & Building Technologies practice in Asia Pacific (http://www.environment.frost.com) will host an analyst briefing webinar on the Building Automation Markets for Asia on August 19th, at 11:00 hrs (GMT 08:00hrs) Singapore time.

As the economy in so many parts within Asia is taking off, the world is increasingly attentive towards the region for growth prospects in various industries. Building automation markets within Asia is one such industry that is poised for potential development. Nonetheless, within Asia - where are the hot spots? If the trends can be identified early in time, radar screens can be aligned accordingly to reap the maximum benefit.

This briefing covers an overview of the market, focusing on industry challenges, key market drivers and restraints, technology trends, and opportunities for growth within both markets. We will also provide an update of related and upcoming research and provide an opportunity for a question and answer session with the analyst.

The briefing would analyze the econometric parameters of a 12 countries in Asia - spanning China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. This insightful briefing will seek to identify patterns of growth within each country and attempt to benchmark countries for their vitality for building automation markets. Scoring for each country based on defined parameters will bring out the potency and affinity of individual countries for BAS markets in short, mid and long term. The outcome of this briefing may be vital to companies with expansion plans on their agenda. This is also interesting to companies that want to understand the market prospects within their own countries over time.

Highlights of the briefing include: Asian macro economic analysis, country benchmarking, market readiness for building automation, trends and status of awareness etc.

This briefing scope will benefit system manufacturers, system integrators, service providers and real estate developers by discussing regional trends and identifying regional patterns for forward projections for the Asian building automation markets.

Sapan Agarwal, Practice Head of the Asia Pacific Environment & Building Technologies Practice says, "With growing population, urbanization and rising affluence among several nations in Asia, space in major city centers is fast becoming a constraint. Consequently, demands for more effective planning and better ways of managing limited resources are bound to increase." Agarwal adds, "For companies to plan their growth within Asia, they need to analyze individual countries under the microscope to spot opportunities. However, one needs to benchmark these countries against each other to prioritize expansion plans. Frost & Sullivan is attempting to score individual countries to discover potency patterns for BAS markets."

Join us as Sapan shares his insights on the Building Automation hotspots in Asia. Those interested in registering for the interactive webinar should send an email to Corporate Communications - Donna Jeremiah at djeremiah@frost.com with the following information: full name, company name, title, telephone number, e- mail address, city, state and country. The registration details will be emailed to you upon receipt of the above information.

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