Dubai Investments Park adds new state-of-the-art safety facilities and amenities

The upgrade program includes state-of-the-art public safety features such as a permanently-based fire engine and ambulance, strategically located speed humps and wireless communication systems to facilitate faster response time and coordination by DIP authorities to any situation. Also included in the upgrade are 45 CCTV cameras, and security personnel and vehicles, in a total security outlay of well over Dhs2m. Group Seven has been awarded a major contract to install the CCTV system. Moreover, a 24-hour hotline specifically for DIP can be accessed for all security-related concerns.

"As one of the largest integrated business and residential communities of the Middle East, it is necessary to provide first-class facilities for the large number of people and organisations residing in the Park. These initiatives will reassure our residents and tenants that they live in one of the most secure, functional and self-contained communities in the region," said Omar Al Mesmar, General Manager, DIP.

In addition to safety measures, DIP features a host of amenities including mosques, irrigation, street cleaning, landscaping, a cricket ground, a football ground, ATM machines, public phones, a shopping centre and food delivery.

The Park will also host schools and nurseries, police and civil defence stations, a sewage treatment plant, an Etisalat office, a facilities maintenance office, and comprehensive onsite maintenance facilities.

The safety measures are designed to complement the Park's emergence as a premier residential and business destination, as the 3,200 hectare development has already attracted Dhs21bn in investments. An additional Dhs20bn worth of residential projects will be constructed in DIP this year, offering investors 19,292 residential units when the projects are completed by 2010.

Office space is equally popular, with more than 8 million feet of space already leased to a score of multi-nationals and leading companies that are attracted to the Park's world-class facilities and services for manufacturing, residential, academic, research and development, distribution and logistics purposes.

"We are proud to offer our tenants state-of-the-art facilities that are redefining the concept of what it means to live and work in an integrated community. DIP has become recognised as a high-profile, environmentally friendly and cleverly planned development and we have received a surge in investors wishing to capitalise on this opportunity," Al Mesmar concluded.