DIFC Lighthouse Tower
Dubai, UAE
Atkins was appointed to provide architectural, structural, MEP engineering and sustainable design services for the 400-metre DIFC Lighthouse tower, located at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) a 110 acre free-zone envisaged to be the world’s newest international financial centre.
In setting a new benchmark for Dubai, the design aspires to be a LEED platinum rated low-carbon commercial building which will aim to reduce its total energy consumption by up to 50% and water consumption by up to 40% compared to the current Dubai standard design. Atkins was commissioned to carry out a separate sustainability design study to identify innovative ways of achieving this goal.
Design provisions include passive solar architecture, many low energy, low water engineering solutions, recovery strategies for both energy and water and integrated renewables and photovoltaic panels within the façade. For example:
• a digital lighting system is proposed with daylight and movement sensors to reduce energy consumption
• grey water recycling to service the irrigation needs of the landscaped areas
• flow restrictors on taps and showers as well as low flushing WC's along with waterless urinals
• 150 solar water collectors to meet the hot water requirements for the whole building.
Seven levels of parking are provided over the podium, ground floor and five basements offer 1706 parking spaces. The first floor houses a 250 seat restaurant. A swimming pool sits on the third and fourth floor with a fully equipped gym, clad in a bubble like structure made from glass and metal floats above the pool deck.
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