Abu Dhabi Investment Authority HQ, Abu Dhabi, UAE

The 80,000 sq.m new ADIA headquarters is the tallest building in the Emirate and a dramatic new addition to the waterfront skyline. ADIA�s original headquarters built in the early 1980s was equipped with a Delmatic system and good experience over a period of twenty years resulted in ADIA selecting Delmatic for their new building.

The client wanted a building that was open and welcoming, a symbol of the bank�s commitment to transparency in its transactions, and the 180m fully-glazed atrium contains a series of sky gardens echoing the Islamic tradition of planted spaces within buildings.

The building represents a progressive approach to energy use, with an innovative double-skinned external wall forming a key part of an environmental control while presence-related lighting and air-conditioning minimise the building�s energy consumption.

The building is equipped with the most advanced lighting management and integrated building management scheme in the Gulf. The system provides Dali digital dimming throughout the 44 office floors (with telephone dimming for users in open plan zones) and integrates seamlessly with window blind and air-conditioning systems enabling users in each of the 1000 perimeter cellular offices to control lighting, blinds and room temperature from a single infra-red desktop controller. Staircase and core lighting, external and landscape lighting as well as lighting in the separate 30,000 sq.m. parking building is also controlled.

The Delmatic Lon products integrate directly with the Somfy Lon window blind controllers and the Landis and Staefa (Siemens) Lon air-conditioning VAV controllers: the window blind controllers connect directly to the lighting management bus while Delmatic Lon-couplers combine the physically-separate lighting management and building management networks into a single virtual network.

Multisensors mounted within the suspended office luminaires provide presence related switching and dimming of lighting and receive infra-red user commands and room temperature data from the infra-red desktop controller.

The Delmatic desktop controller provides individuals within each cellular office with control of lighting, room temperature and blinds. Lighting may be switched on and off or set to any preferred dimming level, the room-temperature may be adjusted up and down, while the window blinds may be raised, lowered and tilted. The desk controller contains an integral temperature sensor which measures room temperature at desk level (avoiding the need for wired, wall-mounted sensors) and passes this information together with the user-selected temperature set-point to the BMS.

The entire system is managed and monitored through graphical software at the head-end PC including lamp run-times and lamp failure data.

Consultant � Buro Happold

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