DUBAL visits DEWA's sustainable building in Al Quoz

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), received a delegation from Dubai Aluminium (DUBAL), at its Sustainable Building in Al Quoz, as part of DEWA's ongoing stakeholder-outreach and visits.

The largest government sustainable building in the world, DEWA's Sustainable Building in Al Quoz has received a platinum rating for green buildings. During the visit, DEWA provided the team from DUBAL with an overview of the building's operations, functions, and customer services.

They were given a detailed tour of DEWA's customer service centre, which provides a variety of services: its customer call centre, engineering and control centre, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) centre for water systems, recycling stations used to recycle waste water within the building, and the library, gym, and nursery.

"In line with DEWA's vision to become a sustainable world-class utility, our Sustainable Building in Al Quoz was built as the largest government sustainable building in the world. In order for us to achieve sustainable development in the Emirate of Dubai, it is imperative for us to collaborate and work with national and international institutions.DUBAL's visit underlines the UAE's drive towards this bold ambition, while setting the stage for exchange of ideas and knowledge-transfer, in turn enabling us to achieve common goals," said Mohammed Al Shamsi, VP- Civil P&E, DEWA.