01 February 2012

EMIRATES Central Cooling Systems Corporation (Empower) has completed the fourth phase of the 70,000-refrigeration-ton (RT) district cooling network at the Business Bay in Dubai.

With this, it has accomplished the integrated district cooling services to the entire project one month ahead of schedule.
The network stretches from the Bay Square to the end of Business Bay on the north-west side.

The company had earlier completed the third phase of the project, which includes the Bay Square extending to the rear of the Executive Towers, with 50,000 RT. The network, starting at Bay Square and ending at Doha Street, extends over a distance of approximately 2.5 km. With this section, the upper side piping network will be fully completed and connected to Empower’s Business Bay Executive Towers (BBET) main plant.

Ahmed Bin Shafar, CEO of Empower, said: “We are delighted to have completed the project with a high level of efficiency, seamlessness, precision and within the set budget and timeline.”

For the project, Empower supplied pipes manufactured by its joint venture Empower-Logstor Insulated Pipes Systems (ELIPS), the UAE’s largest pre-insulated pipe manufacturing facility.

“This has allowed us to save 25 per cent of the total cost of the project. Moreover, the site supervision was carried out entirely by Empower staff,” Bin Shafar said.

“District cooling systems (DCS) achieve economies of scale by using centralised plants instead of individual cooling units in each building. The centralised system results in diminishing capital and operating costs, thus reducing air-conditioning set-up and energy costs per building.”

Empower entered this joint venture of launching ELIPS with an eye on securing the supply chain of pre-insulated pipes used in DCS networks which constitute 20 to 25 per cent of the total capital investment of any network.

ELIPS ensures timely delivery and installation of pipe networks that had a major impact on Empower’s project timelines.

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