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John Woodnutt, entrepreneur and inventor of electronic lighting control technology, has been awarded an MBE for services to Business and Entrepreneurship in the 2023 New Year Honours list. John pioneered lighting controls in the late 1950s and the Honour recognises his unique innovations in lighting controls and his six decades of commitment to creating smart, sustainable building solutions.
Delmatic’s smart lighting solutions seamlessly mesh wireless, wired and mixed-mode controls across physical or cloud networks, continuously monitoring, analysing and optimising lighting and sharing real-time intelligence to optimise building performance.
DALI-2 is the global standard for digital dimming, enabling devices from different manufacturers to be seamlessly integrated into interoperable networks.
We offer a wide range of DALI-2 products that can be integrated with other open protocol systems such as LON and BACnet.
A Delmatic DALI system optimises lighting throughout the twin towers complex and provides intelligent, secure and sustainable management and monitoring.
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Al Bahr Towers comprise two 29-storey, 145m–high towers: one tower houses the headquarters of the Abu Dhabi Investment Council (ADIC), an investment arm
of the Government of Abu Dhabi, while the other serves as the head office of Al Hilal Bank, a progressive and innovative Islamic Bank. The towers fuse bio inspiration, regional architecture and performance-based technology, and are a benchmark for a highly considered approach in the built environment.
A Delmatic DALI system controls lighting throughout the 75,000 sq.m headquarters and maximises energy efficiency through optimised digital diming, presence/ absence detection, daylight-linking and daylight-harvesting. DALI Plug-in modules were selected for the project to enable rapid installation and avoid the need to address DALI ballasts on site.
The client wanted to set new standards of environmental responsibility and the buildings incorporate a number of innovative design features including the dynamic solar shading screens (a modern interpretation of the traditional Arabic ‘Mashrabiya’ shading) which open and close in response to the sun’s path. This, combined with other intelligent systems, has resulted in a 40% saving in carbon emissions for the towers despite the harsh UAE
environment, and the project was the first in the Gulf to be receive a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver rating.
Delmatic were selected for the Abu Dhabi Investment Council’s HQ project based upon the performance of the Delmatic DALI system at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority’s own landmark headquarters: this, in turn, was selected based upon good experience over a period of twenty-five years of a Delmatic system installed during the early 1980s in ADIA’s original headquarters.
