Jun 12 2007
The Best Intelligent Building Award was recently presented to Pacific Control Systems LLC for their headquarters building in Dubai, UAE. This building is the Middle East's First Platinum Rated Green Building (USGBC, LEED) to promote the concept of environmentally friendly buildings in the region.
"Today this project is the one and only certified Green Building in the Middle East and is truly pioneering the cause of Sustainable buildings and the Practical use of Solar Energy," said Anto Budiardjo Clasma, CEO.
The Buildy Awards recognize the individuals and organizations who have stepped up to the challenge of integrating a system into the entire scheme of a building. These individuals and organizations support the vision of networked building systems in which all the facility's disparate systems are seamlessly integrated together to provide the building owner and manager greater value from their investment.
Pacific Controls Head Quarters is located at the Dubai Techno Park, on Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai, UAE, Dubai today is the global hub for infrastructure development.
Opened on 1st September 2006, the facility houses Pacific Controls Headquarters, U-City Development Centre, R & D Centre for M2M Technologies, Energy Performance, Industrial & Commercial Automation, U-home Products and Solutions. The facility also houses 24x7x365 Global Command Control Centre, Product Engineering and Development Facility and has capacity for 600 employees.
Pacific Controls green building functions on a totally integrated IP enabled Automation System integrating the services in the building including the BMS, IP Telephony, Lighting Controls, AV Systems, Solar PV, Fire Alarm , Lift Alarm, Access Control, IP cameras, Solar Thermal Air-conditioning System, STP, etc, which makes this building totally transparent in terms of its engineering services. This helps to maintain system reliability while substantially reducing operating and maintenance costs and increasing service efficiency.