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and its solar farm charges Tesla battery packs to meet the building’s
energy demand throughout each day and night.

The employee experience includes contactless pathways, a virtual
concierge, smart meeting rooms and a companion app that
automates day-to-day tasks. The building’s smart management
system automatically adjusts lighting and temperature depending on
occupancy and time of day. The rooms are also equipped for remote
and hybrid work scenarios with powerful collaboration tools.

Manifesting BEEAH’s twin pillars of sustainability and digitalisation,
the new headquarters by ZHA is an important achievement for
BEEAH Group, signalling its growth from a company founded
to proactively tackle environmental issues in Sharjah, UAE, to an
international group with businesses in industries that are critical to
realising a sustainable future.

Following the 2013 international design competition, Zaha Hadid
and her team at Zaha Hadid Architects were commissioned by
BEEAH to design their new headquarters that would realise net-zero
emissions and be integrated with next generation technologies to
achieve a new standard for employee convenience and collaboration.

ZHA delivered the BEEAH Headquarters in collaboration with
sustainability engineers and consultants Atelier Ten and Buro
Happold, project managers Matthews Southwest, construction
contractor Al Futtaim Construction, and MEP engineers Al Futtaim
Engineering. Smart building technologies by Microsoft, Johnson
Controls and EVOTEQ, a BEEAH Digital venture. dw

www.zaha-hadid.com

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