Emirates Towers

NORR Limited, Architects and Engineers

This world-class development, located in Dubai, UAE, represented the third largest pair of towers in the world, with a 52-storey hotel tower and adjacent 53-storey office tower. Both towers rise from an oasis of shopping mall and lush lawns and gardens. At time of completion, the office tower was the tallest in the Middle East and Europe and the 10th tallest building in the world.

The total facility contains 41 elevators and 12 escalators, with the high-rise office elevators having a rated speed of 7 metres per second. Elevators employ artificial intelligence algorithms and VV/VF inverter drives as key features to achieve performance standards.

HH Angus provided a full scope of services, starting with Schematic Design and through to final acceptance inspections of the elevator and escalator units.

SERVICES
Vertical Transporation Consultanting

PROJECT FEATURES
Status: Completion 2000

LOCATION
Dubai, UAE

KEY SCOPE ELEMENTS
Tallest building in the Middle East at time of construction | Two adjacent towers | Named Elevator Project of the Year

Image courtecy: NORR Ltd, Architects and Engineers

Elevator Project of the year

This prestigious project was selected by Elevator World Magazine as Project of the Year, Category One, Elevator New Construction, Year 2000.

Canary Wharf

Citigroup European Headquarters

This 1.2 million ft2 facility consolidates UK and European operations for Citigroup, the world’s largest financial institution. Our project scope included a 30,000 ft2 server farm/computer centre and 42 floors of communications technology rooms, supported by six 1600 kW rotary diesel UPS units for 9.6 MW of back up power to critical operations. At the time of construction, Citigroup Tower was the third tallest building in the UK.

Rotary diesel UPS units were arranged in four systems to provide dual redundant power to critical loads, using a highly fault-tolerant distribution scheme through to the raised floor Power Distribution Units and tech rooms. A sophisticated dual redundant load management system provides for control of all critical and essential loads under all normal operating and failure mode conditions. The design was configured to expand by two more 1600 kW units, for an ultimate load capability of 12.8 MW.

The control system also permits operation of all international office functions when all diesel UPS systems are available following a utility power failure via sequenced load stepping, allowing for a “business as usual” operating scenario even under widespread utility outages.

SERVICES
Electrical Engineering | Communications Design

PROJECT FEATURES
Size: 1.2 million ft2 | Status: Completed 2001

LOCATION
London, United Kingdom

KEY SCOPE ELEMENTS
Complex and highly resilient MEP design | Fly wheel energy storage UPS systems | Load design expanded by two 1600 kW units, for an ultimate load capacity of 12.8 MW | Rotary diesel UPS units arranged in four systems to provide dual redundant power to critical loads

Olympia & York Developments

Canary Wharf – One Canada Place & London Docklands Light Rail Transit Station

Olympia & York’s entire Canary Wharf project pivots on this 50-storey tower, which opened as the tallest building in Europe in 1991. The 1,248,000 ft2 building was designed to provide flexibility for incoming tenants to fit out the space to suit their own requirements.

The entire building supports extensive telecommunication infrastructure. Three separate phone companies have dual riser space allocated, resulting in an extremely high level of servicing.

HH Angus provided the electrical design for this landmark building. The electrical systems feature an extremely robust design with double-ended substations, (two transformers, one for redundancy) and a high level of service for the tenant floors.

The electrical power facilities parallel this highly-serviced design with double-ended transformer substations. The tenant and landlord power supplies are separated to reduce harmonic interference.

The building is totally smoke controlled. The computerized fire alarm system controls the smoke extraction and pressurization systems, as well as the lifts, and has expansion space to accommodate future tenant needs. One thousand tons of chilled water capacity has auto changeover facilities between separate HV services from two substations of the local utility.

Light Rail System

HH Angus also designed systems for the Canary Wharf station for the Dockland Light Rail system, which is built into the base of One Canada Square. The station was redeveloped from a small wayside station to a much larger one with six platforms serving three tracks and a large overall roof. It is fully integrated into the retail malls below the Canary Wharf office towers.

The Dockland LRT system is an automated light metro system that uses minimal staffing. In 2017/18, it carried almost 122 million passenger trips.

SERVICES
Electrical Engineering

PROJECT FEATURES
Status: Completed 1991

LOCATION
London, England

KEY SCOPE ELEMENTS
Robust electrical design with double-ended tranformer substations | High level of servicing | Designed systems for LRT station | Extensive telecommunications infrastructure and specialty lighting

Lighting up London

Specialty lighting in the pyramid internally illuminates and reflects from the louvre vents to produce a glow that is visible at night from across the London skyline.