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Power Struggle TRMETRME 4 2017 4 2017 English - Cover_cover.qxd CW_Front_cover.qxd 02/10/2017 02/10/2017 10:26 Page 14:19 1 Page 1 SERVING THE REGION’S BUSINESS SINCE 19849 4 TECHNICAL TECHNICAL REVIEW MIDDLE EAST USA:USA: $16.50,$16.50, UnitedUnited Kingdom:Kingdom: £10£10 Vol 33/Issue Four 2017 Saudi strengthens Reform policies rejuvenate the kingdom’s economy Cool practices Sustainable technologies push POWER GCC district cooling sector ahead STRUGGLE GENSETS SALES DECLINE YET Volume 33/Issue Four 2017 MIDDLE EAST MARKET RESILIENT INSIDE www.technicalreview.me Facilities Management www.technicalreview.me Buildings 33 Years Logistics 1984 - 2017 WETEX Serving Middle East Business Market News - p6 Analysis - p16 HVACR - p36 Innovations - p60 Arabic Section- p94 TRME 4 2017 CW IFC_ORMETHREE05COVER.qxd 02/10/2017 10:19 Page 1 Don’t gamble with back-up power! CHOOSE THE MOST RELIABLE GENERATORS • Start-up 100% guaranteed • Highly qualified technical support • Local Service HIMOINSA MIDDLE EAST, FZE. Jafza 16, office Nº 505 P.O. Box 18515 Jebel Ali Free Zone, Dubai UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Tel.: +971 4 8873315 Fax: +971 4 8873318 [email protected] TRME42017-Cover_cover.qxd02/10/201717:03Page1 SERVING THE REGION’S BUSINESS SINCE 19849 4 USA: $16.50, United Kingdom: £10 Vol 33/Issue Four 2017 Saudi strengthens Reform policies rejuvenate the kingdom’s economy Cool practices Sustainable technologies push POWER GCC district cooling sector ahead STRUGGLE GENSETS SALES DECLINE YET MIDDLE EAST MARKET RESILIENT INSIDE Facilities Management Buildings www.technicalreview.me Logistics WETEX 33 Years INCLUDES GENSET BUYERS’ GUIDE 2016 1984 - 2017 Serving Middle East Business Market News - p6 Analysis - p16 HVACR - p36 Innovations - p60 Arabic Section- p94 S01TRME42017-Start_Layout102/10/201708:29Page2 S01TRME42017-Start_Layout102/10/201708:29Page3 S01TRME42017-Start_Layout102/10/201717:14Page4 4 Contents EdiTor’s noTE SAUDI ARABIA IS slowly coming out of CONTENTS the economic shock that hit the kingdom businEss & ManagEMEnT buildings Market news 6 Facilities Management 46 after the 2014 oil price plunge. Efforts to Iran to complete construction of nuclear plant by 2025; Mega-events like Expo 2020 Dubai and 2022 FIFA push forward Saudi Vision 2030 and Contract for world’s largest CSP plant awarded in World Cup in Qatar support FM growth in the GCC National Transformation Program (NTP) Dubai; Masdar signs EPC contract to build large-scale are in full swing as the country sees a wind project in Oman EVEnTs fundamental policy shift. Construction saudi build 28 and transportation projects are witnessing EXEcuTiVE sTraTEgy heavy spending once again, thereby WETEX 2017 56 Turkish delight 14 raising hopes for investors. Its neighbours, FG Wilson gensets are among the most ambitious intersolar Middle East 58 UAE and Qatar, are not far behind in the projects in the North African country iran Electricity Exhibition 59 race. With approaching deadlines on Expo 2020 Dubai and 2022 FIFA World Cup, rise analysis innoVaTions in construction activities has led to saudi arabia Market report 16 Products and Progress 60 notable growth in the genset industry. Our The kingdom is reforming its domestic and foreign The latest offerings and developments featuring Annual Genset Review (p30) will policies to overcome the economic plunge RANCO, Mosdorfer, HIMOINSA, Ascend Access System encourage manufacturers and suppliers. Scaffolding, Perkins, Megger, Tiger Profiles, OMICRON, Hitachi Construction Machinery, PASCHAL As the district cooling market heats up, we gEnsET debut our Annual District Cooling Review Middle East Power showcase 30 in this edition (p36). Meanwhile, read Despite lower genset rentals and sales in 2017, annual buyErs’ guidE telecom and construction keep the market steady gensets 74 about latest industrial innovations in the Our comprehensive annual guide to genset Middle East on p60. manufacturers and suppliers across the Middle East HVacr At Technical Review we always annual district cooling review 36 arabic welcome readers’ comments to Middle Eastern governments are actively pushing for news 4 [email protected] energy-efficient solutions in the sector analysis 6 14 36 55 SERVING THE REGION’S BUSINESS SINCE 1984 Country Representative Telephone Fax Email India Tanmay Mishra +91 80 65684483 [email protected] Nigeria Bola Olowo +234 8034349299 [email protected] UK Michael Ferridge +44 20 7834 7676 +44 20 79730076 [email protected] Editor: Rhonita Patnaik - Email: [email protected] USA Michael Tomashefsky +1 203 226 2882 +1 203 226 7447 [email protected] Editorial and design team: Prashanth AP, Hiriyti Bairu, Miriam Brtkova, Kestell Duxbury, Ranganath GS, Samantha Payne, Rahul Puthenveedu, Deblina Roy Nicky Valsamakis, Vani Venugopal and Louise Waters us Mailing agEnT: Technical Review Middle East ISSN 0267 5307 is published eight times a year for Managing Editor: Georgia Lewis US$99 per year by Alain Charles Publishing, University House, 11-13 Lower Grosvenor Place, London, Publisher: Nick Fordham SW1W 0EX, UK. 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Ali - Email: [email protected] Production: Naveenkumar H, Kavya J and Nelly Mendes Email: [email protected] arabic Typesetting: Lunad Publicity, Dubai subscriptions: [email protected] – powering your business. w © Technical Review Middle East ISSN: 0267-5307 chairman: Derek Fordham Audit Bureau of Head office: Alain Charles Publishing Ltd Middle East regional office: Alain Charles Middle East FZ-LLC Circulations - University House, 11-13 Lower Grosvenor Place, London, SW1W 0EX, UK Office L2- 112, Loft Office 2, Entrance B, Dubai Media City, Dubai, UAE Business Magazines Tel: +44 20 7834 7676, Fax: +44 20 7973 0076 Tel: +971 4 448 9260, Fax: +971 4 448 9261 Servingtheworldofbusiness Technical Review Middle East - Issue Four 2017 www.technicalreview.me 1 2 S01TRME42017-Start_Layout102/10/201708:29Page5 A powerful partnership Sheer power. That’s Volvo Penta. Robust, fuel efficient industrial diesel engines that keep running even in the toughest conditions. Easy to install, operate and maintain. A powerful partnership you can trust all the way from the drawing board throughout the operational life of your application. Quick access to off-the-shelf parts wherever you are. Easy contacts for service and support across the world – powering your business. www.volvopenta.com/industrial 105-565 kW 14:30 S01TRME42017-Start_Layout102/10/201708:29Page6 6 Market News Briefly Dubai Ruler announces contract worth US$3.87bn for world’s largest CSP plant Iran to complete the construction of nuclear VICE-PRESIDENT AND PRIME Minister of the UAE plant by 2025 and Ruler of Dubai, HH Sheikh Mohammed bin IRAN HAS STATED that it expects to Rashid Al Maktoum, has announced the largest see a new nuclear power plant, which single-site concentrated solar power (CSP) it is building in cooperation with project in the world, which will be built at a total Russia, to be launched before 2025. cost of US$3.87bn. Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman The CSP project, which represents the fourth for Iran’s Atomic Energy phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Organization (AEOI), told domestic media that a second plant would be Solar Park, will generate 700MW of clean energy to made operational two years later support Dubai’s electricity grid. The project is than the first one. He added that considered an integral part of the emirate’s Clean the projects could generate Energy Strategy 2050. collective power of 2,100MW – Sheikh Mohammed highlighted the UAE’s model 1,050MW each once fully for sustaining a green economy based on operational. In September 2016, Iran said it had started a 10-year environmental sustainability and clean energy. The Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of project to construct a new nuclear UAE has a clear strategy for implementing and Dubai, HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, at the power plant with Russia’s help. further developing this model to maximise its announcement ceremony. (Photo: DEWA) The country already runs one benefits, in addition to investing in infrastructure, Russian-built nuclear reactor at building capabilities and developing specialised tower, measuring 260 metres. The power purchase Bushehr, its first nuclear energy local talent. agreement and the financial close are due to be project. Russia signed a deal with “We have made steady progress in realising the completed shortly. Iran in 2014 to build up to eight more reactors in the country. goals of Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050 that was Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of DEWA, Kamalvandi further added that the launched as part of our objective to transform stated, “This achievement boosts our objectives construction of nuclear power Dubai into a global clean energy and green and positions us as one of the leading countries in plants required an investment of at economy hub. The carbon footprint of Dubai will the world in terms of clean and renewable energy. least US$5bn. The figure, he said, is be the lowest in the world by 2030,” said Sheikh The Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050 aims to at least three times higher than that Mohammed. “We are proud that by increase the share of clean energy in Dubai’s total required for the construction of demonstrating their capabilities, our local talent power output to seven per cent by 2020, 25 per regular plants. have proved that they are ready to assume cent by 2030, and 75 per cent by 2050.” Qatar’s US$4.7bn responsibility,” the Ruler added.
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