Empower awards a contract worth AED46 million for Madinat Jumeirah chilled water pipes network
Dubai, United Arab Emirates; March 25, 2015:Empower, the worlds largest district cooling services provider, today announced that it has awarded OverseasAST an AED46 million contract as part of building chilled water pipes network across Madinat Jumeirah phase 4to facilitate it with district cooling systems.
This contract award marks the second phase of a larger project with the Jumeirah Group that includes a 30,000 Refrigeration Tonne (RT) retrofit across several properties. The first load delivery for the overall project occurred in January 2015, for the Jumeirah Emirates Towers. The project will run 4,500 RT across Madinat Jumeirah phase 4 and is expected to come online by the beginning of Q4 2015.
With wide- ranging culinary options, unique retail offerings and world- class hospitality, the Madinat Jumeirah has built an identity based on providing the best to visitors from Dubai and beyond, said H.E Ahmad Bin Shafar, Chief Executive Officer, Empower. And as a company that provides district coolingservices to more than 70 hotels across the Emirate, Empower has the experience and technical expertise to take the services offered by this iconic development to the next level. Comprehensive retrofitting plans for the Jumeirah Group include the construction of a 3 kilometer- long network of chilled water pipes for several properties, including the Burj Al Arab, Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management and Madinat Jumeirah hotels like Al Qasr, Mina ASalam and Dar Al Masyaf.
Construction will also include a Non Destructive Road Crossing (NDRC) system, which will ensure minimal disturbance to daily traffic in the area, explained Bin Shafar. And by switching over Empowers district cooling technologies, which use up to 50 per cent less energy as traditional air- conditioning systems, we expect for the Madinat Jumeirah to incur significant savings in operational costs in the near future. Empower currently operates more than 1 million RT portfolioand it provides environmentally responsible district cooling services to large-scale real estate developments such as Jumeirah Group, Business Bay, Jumeirah Beach Residence, Dubai International Financial Centre, Palm Jumeirah, Jumeirah Lake Towers, Ibn Battuta Shopping Mall, Discovery Gardens, Dubai Healthcare City, Dubai World trade Centre Residences, Dubai Design District, among others.
