Sector: Commercial
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.
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.