Building: Pacific Controls HQ building wins prestigious Digie Award
Pacific Controls announced that its HQ Building was awarded the Digie Award for the Digital Real Estate - Extreme Office Building - International, category at Realcomm 2007 on 4th June at Boston, USA.
Dilip Rahulan, Chairman and CEO of Pacific Controls, on receipt of the Award said “We are delighted to receive the Digie Award 2007. It tells us and our clients that our efforts to showcase the concept of Intelligent green buildings has won Global Recognition, We deserve to be singled out for creating a trend in sustainable development and deployment of State of the Art Converged IP Technology in buildings. The Digie Award further recognizes our ability to meet the marketplace technology needs”.
Each year, Realcomm presents the most innovative real estate companies, individuals, and solution providers with the prestigious “Digie” Award. This award is designed to recognize the most forward-thinking leaders in commercial real estate who are making the greatest impact through the use of technology and automation.
The Digie Awards are broken into four main categories:
“Best Use Of Automation” (by a real estate related organization),
“Most Extreme Real Estate” (office, retail, mixed use project), “Best Technology” (general, real estate transaction, intelligent building) and the “Digital Impact Award,” which will be presented to four outstanding individuals who have consistently demonstrated tenacity and persistence in promoting technological innovation in our industry. The 2007 Digie Award Finalists for: The Digital’ Real Estate - Extreme Office Building - International were : Shanghai World Financial Center - Shanghai, Pacific Controls Headquarters - Dubai, Taipei 101 - Taipei.
Pacific Controls’ Intelligent Green Building initiative reflects its national role by serving as a model for the energy-efficient, environmentally responsible Intelligent workplace - benefiting the society as a whole.
Located in the Techno Park Dubai, this Intelligent Green Building - the headquarters of Pacific Controls, will be the first-of-its-kind sustainable development in the Middle East rated as the first Platinum rated Green Building in the Middle East, and the 16th in the World, under United States Green Building Council (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program - a voluntary standard that defines high-performance Green Buildings for a healthier, more environmentally responsible and more profitable developments. Achieved with state-of-the-art Converged IP enabled building monitoring and control technologies, the Pacific Controls green building proves that environmentally conscious design can be both practical and affordable - especially in the Middle East region.
‘We are happy to have built our headquarters as a green building functioning as a true model of our environmental mission. The story of Pacific Controls Green Building is a remarkable one: it’s a marriage of idealism and realism that has blossomed into the future of urban architecture,’ said Dilip Rahulan, Chairman and CEO of Pacific Control Systems.
‘Our green building initiative is in line with the UAE Government’s drive towards achieving sustainable environment. This initiative is part of our mission in taking up environmental stewardship, which has led us to build an Intelligent Green Building that totally functions on environmentally-friendly design and engineering, laying emphasis on energy savings, efficient water reuse, recycled or recyclable materials, indoor air quality for improved health and employee/owner productivity, and low building maintenance costs,’ he added.
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