The Land awards City Cool with Dhs491m contract to provide district cooling for the Ajmakan project in KSA

The contract calls for City Cool to provide 40, 000 tones of refrigeration to cool Ajmakan through state of the art district cooling plants.

The district cooling plants will consist of large centrifugal chillers -- widely recognized as the most energy-efficient means of providing cooling for large-scale developments.
City Cool's scope of services at the Ajmakan development include the cooling of multiple buildings linked via a chilled water piping network.

City Cool's district cooling solution which puts environment the first will help the occupants of the property development to reduce consumption of electricity upto 50% and to lower thousands of tons of CO2 (carbondioxide) emissions. The project is scheduled for completion in 2012.

"We are committed to providing the residents of our prestigious project, Ajmakan with the benefits of environment-friendly technologies and hence we opted for District cooling. City Cool was our natural choice for they had done exemplary work as a district cooling service provider for mega projects in the region. This has given us the confidence to select City Cool as the District cooling partner for Ajmakan", said, Karim Jabbour Chief Executive Officer, The Land.

Commenting on the deal, Eng. Ibrahim Al- Rajhi, Chairman of City Cool said, "We are proud to have won this landmark deal in Saudi Arabia. By leveraging on our expertise and technology and our dedicated team of resources, we assure that we would be able to provide a unique energy-efficient and state of the art district cooling infrastructure for the Ajmakan development."



"There is a lot of potential for District cooling in Saudi Arabia which is driven by the massive construction boom and the increasing demand for sustainable building solutions that call for energy and water conservation. Besides, Saudi offers an excellent infrastructure in terms of availability of power and other natural resources for the district cooling market to flourish", added Eng. Ibrahim Al-Rajhi.

City Cool continues to ride on a wave of success as a key provider of district cooling solutions to prestigious developments in the Kingdom. Ajmakan is City Cool's second major District cooling project in Saudi Arabia .Earlier, this June, the company was awarded the SR 630 million district cooling project for Emaar's Bay la sun development in the Kingdom.

Ajmakan, that was launched last May, is one of the biggest real estate projects in Saudi Arabia and is located in Al Khuzama Quarter, one of Riyadh's most distinctive areas, on an area of around 1,750,000 square meters, with a total project value of about SR6.5bn.

The giant project comprises a fully integrated commercial zone with business centers, elite villas, palaces and a prestigious five-star hotel with advanced facilities. Furthermore, the commercial zone features a state of the art infrastructure, spacious streets, in addition to other services and facilities introduced to the Kingdom for the first time.

District Cooling System is built on the concept of centralizing the production of thermal energy in the form of chilled water and then distributing the chilled water to a range of residential, commercial and government buildings through a network of underground pipes instead of using one local system for each building, thus creating both economic and environmental benefits.

This results in reduced ambient noise and better temperature control for residents in their homes, while building owners or landlords can gain from reduced capital, operating and maintenance costs and substantial savings in electricity usage, since DCS uses only about 50% of the energy required for conventional air-cooled chiller systems.