Dubai Festival City

Dubai Festival City (DFC) is a landmark urban resort and is one of the UAE�s most exciting retail, dining and leisure destinations. The Festival City covers a staggering 6.4 million square meters and comprises leisure, retail, hotel, and residential neighbourhoods.

Dubai Festival City�s 200,000 sq.m retail resort comprises the Festival Waterfront Centre and the Festival Power Centre which face a man-made marina on the Dubai Creek and form the epicentre of Dubai Festival City. The retail resort has 550 shops, including 25 flagship and anchor shops � the largest collective number in the Middle East � over 90 international restaurants, bistros and caf�s throughout the resort and 40 al-fresco dining venues along the water. In addition a Skywalk Entertainment level will be home to a 12-screen Grand Cinema Complex and associated technology and lifestyle outlets.

A Delmatic lighting management system controls lighting throughout the retail resort. Energy-efficient presence-detectors control lighting within back-of-house and support areas while a sophisticated switching and dimming system provides addressable scene-setting of lighting within the front-of-house public retail areas and carparks. The dimming system combines tungsten architectural dimming racks with analogue and digital dimming while LEDs and decorative lighting is controlled by fully-integrated DMX controls with colour-changing and dramatic lighting effects activated from a single lighting management head-end PC.

The Delmatic system also controls lighting within the 15 kilometers of tunnels which provide access to and across the site. Delmatic�s latest DELi Dali controllers provide addressable dimming such that lighting levels within the tunnels are matched to external daylight levels and ensure a gradual transition between the harsh UAE sunlight and the tunnel interior.

The Delmatic system utilises the site-wide IT backbone for communication across the vast site and IP Routers connect to the high-speed network avoiding the need for duplication of network cabling.

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