Emirates District Cooling Company LLC (Emicool), a joint venture of M’Sharie, a subsidiary of Dubai Investments, and Union Properties PJSC, will provide 100,000 tons of refrigeration to one of its two major projects, the Motor City Project.
Emicool will put up two plant rooms for the Motor City Project, with each plant room able to accommodate 46,000 tons of refrigeration. The leading utility service provider has awarded the construction of the plant rooms to Drake & Scull and Thermo for AED 333 million. For the piping network, Emicool has signed up CAT Company for AED 73.5 million. Work on the piping is expected to be completed by the end of 2007 along with the first phase of the first plant room.
Fouad Younan, General Manager of Emicool, said, “We will take on the challenge of expanding our presence in a growing market for district cooling services. Our technological competencies, human expertise and operating experience will hold us in excellent stead in providing refrigeration for the Motor City project. This important project will help us progress towards our goal to become the preferred provider of reliable, efficient and environment-friendly district cooling services in Dubai and all over the UAE.”
Gareth Luken, Managing Director of the Industrial, Water and Power Division at Drake & Scull International said, “We are pleased to be awarded the contract for the construction of the plant room for the Motor City Project, and we look forward to working closely with Emicool in the months ahead. Our experience and expertise in this domain is unparalleled and we are eager to deliver our high quality service to this prestigious project.”
The Motor City Project and the Dubai Investments Park (DIP) are the two key projects which Emicool is currently focused on. Emicool, a district cooling service provider that supplies chilled water for residential, commercial and industrial applications, will put up another 250,000 tons of refrigeration for the DIP’s Ewan Residences, Dubai Lagoon, Dubai Crown City, the Ritaj residential project, and the Sh. Essa Development, which includes the newly launched Palisades project, the Middle East’s largest privately funded mixed-use real estate development.
For these two massive projects, Emicool will build eight different plant rooms ranging from 15,000 refrigeration tons (RT) to 75,000 RT, in addition to a complete underground pipe distribution network, energy transfer stations and completely wireless BTU metering systems worth over AED 2.5 billion, which will be invested over a period of three to five years.
With the UAE’s district cooling market demand estimated at almost 10 million tons of refrigeration in the next 10 years, Emicool is investing in advanced technologies, facilities and infrastructure to gear up operations. These investments, along with an impressive portfolio, will consolidate Emicool’s influence on the market as the emirate continues to enjoy a boom in construction.
Emicool is a 50% Subsidiary of M’sharie.
