Eastern’s $10.8-million contract with Honeywell, Inc., to reduce energy consumption on campus will not be affected by the company’s plan to reduce its workforce by 10 percent this year, a company spokesperson said Friday.

Honeywell, which manufactures aerospace and automotive products as well as engineered products such as chemicals, fibers and plastics, has announced it will lay off 12,000 of its 120,000 employees by year’s end.

Dave Morgan, business unit manger for Honeywell’s US Central Area Office in Indianapolis, estimated that the “core energy retrofitting” division of Honeywell, which includes his office, accounts for approximately $250 million of the company’s $25-billion yearly revenue, or 1 percent. He said no job cuts have been made to his office.

Morgan, whose office has been coordinating the project intended to reduce energy consumption at Eastern, said the cuts will not have any effect on the contract.

“No, they won’t have any effect on the contract with Eastern at all,” he said. “Honeywell is set for this, and anything as far as workforce reductions won’t affect this.”

The contract authorizes Honeywell to make changes, mostly to lighting and water fixtures, but also to some of the university’s “chillers,” which help provide climate control for campus buildings.

The agreement states that after the improvements are made, Eastern will recoup at least $10.8 million in savings over 10 years as a result of the more efficient technologies. The contract also provides that Honeywell will reimburse the university if the savings do not amount to at least the cost of the contract over the 10-year period.

Eastern’s residence hall inhabitants will soon see the affects of the Honeywell contract in action.

Morgan said the campus should prepare for some disruption as a portion of the conservation measures will be implemented shortly.

“We anticipate that the remainder of the water and energy conservation measures will be starting in two weeks, in earnest,” he said.

Those measures include water and light fixture replacements in residence halls. Morgan said that members of the Honeywell project team have been meeting with Eastern’s Facilities Planning and Management Department to update the status of the project.

Morgan said that signs will be posted to inform residence hall inhabitants when and how their building might be affected.

“Unfortunately there will be some disruption of normal activities, but we want to make it as painless as possible,” he said. “We really want to make this as small a disruption as possible.”

Water fixtures including shower heads, faucets, toilets, and urinals will be modified or replaced with more efficient models and lighting systems will be renovated “throughout the dorms,” Morgan said.

Mary DeMarco, Honeywell’s account executive for the project, said that water and steam trap upgrades will be started by the end of the month and that those upgrades will be followed by the lighting renovations. She said that upgrades will be made in every residence hall.

The Honeywell team also intends to make the chiller replacements before the end of the calendar year, while the weather is cold and the buildings don’t need cooling, Morgan said.

DeMarco said Thomas Hall, Carman Hall, Stevenson Hall and the Physical Science Building will receive new chillers over the Christmas holiday.