21st Century Tower, Dubai

Powered by Standing 53 storeys and 269 metres high, the architecturally striking 21st Century Tower in Dubai is the latest prestigious project to feature a web-serving building services control solution from Tridium, the open framework specialist.

The installation of Tridium’s NIAGARA Framework by Dubai-based Pacific Controls, the UAE’s leading systems’ integrator, has ensured rapid, comprehensive and successful integration of the tower’s complex range of building services equipment. Services designed to operate on independent BACNET, LONWORKS and Modbus control bus networks, are now all connected in a single, open, interoperable and remotely accessible web-based control environment without the need for any gateways, complex programming or expensive BMS supervisors.

“The promised integration of sub-systems has actually delivered”

The project

● The world’s tallest apartment block at 53 storeys and 269m high with 400 luxury apartments.

● Over 1800 locally controlled fan coil units, fed with chilled water via a variable flow system, provide
comfort cooling.
● Air handling, pump, power, fire detection, security and other services are distributed in Basement, Mezzanine, 9th Floor, 30th Floor and 53rd Floor plant rooms throughout the building.
● Adjoining nine storey car park is home to five huge 525 ton water-cooled chillers, cooling towers, additional pumps and electrical substations.

The requirement

● Rapid, comprehensive and successful integration of the tower’s complex range of building services equipment.

Tridium provides

● Market-leading NIAGARA Framework as the system architecture along with NIAGARA Framework embedded within four JACE 512 series controllers.
● Web-based remote access to the control system for engineering, monitoring and supervision.

The results

● Services designed to operate on independent BACNET, LONWORKS and Modbus control bus networks,are now all connected in a single, open, interoperable and remotely accessible web-based control environment served up graphically through HTML to ensure that supervisory actions can easily take place through any secure-access internet connection.
● Impressive degree of sub-system interoperability.

Conclusion

● Thanks to Tridium’s NIAGARA Framework, all building services are easily accessible through a web-based control system architecture.
● Complete freedom of equipment specification through the main driver of “best in breed” selection not controls protocol compatibility.