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Qatar District Cooling Company, also known as Qatar Cool, has recently signed a district cooling service agreement with Qatar Industrial Manufacturing Company (QIMC) to provide cooling services to a new tower in West Bay.
The signed agreement includes the provision of district cooling services with a capacity of 3,650 tonnes of refrigeration (TR), along with regular maintenance to onsite equipment, water pumps and other related services to cover 120,000 square meters of tower space, a press release said on Sunday.
QIMC CEO Abdul Rahman bin Abdullah al Ansari said,"We made an informed decision to opt for district cooling for our new tower in West Bay based on the various benefits it offers over conventional cooling methods.
"District cooling not only helps us reduce construction and maintenance costs, but also serves the environment by reducing the energy required to cool our tower by 40-45 percent thus reducing CO2 emissions to the atmosphere - that, in turn, supports the environmental pillar of the Qatar National Vision 2030.
"Yasser Salah al Jaidah, CEO, Qatar Cool, said,"District cooling offers tower owners and developers a variety of benefits in the long-run; reduced construction and maintenance costs and more leasable space are principal among them. We pride ourselves on our ability to offer such economical and environmentally-friendly cooling service to our partners in Qatar."
He said the cooling energy used over the past six years has saved over 1 billion Kilo Watts of electricity which translates to reducing over 600 million kilograms of CO2 from the atmosphere, which is equivalent to the environmental effect of removing 120 thousand cars off the roads.
