New premises for Dubai Central Lab

According to Essa Al Maidour, Assistant Director General for General Projects Affairs, works of the new premises would start within two months and be completed in one year.

"The new premises would help Dubai Central Lab and the Network Operations Centre to have more and bigger facilities and, subsequently, serve their customers better," said Al Maidour.

He noted that the project would consist of two main buildings. The first building would include laboratories for testing electric appliances, toys and cosmetics; labs for checking weights, lengths and sizes of materials; and labs for food and environment. The building would also include administrative offices.

"The building would be provided with all safety criterion taking into consideration the nature of appliances and materials it is going to accommodate," Al Maidour said.

The second building would house the Network Operations Centre consisting of central servers, a remote control room, workshops and staff offices. It will be able to cover the future expansions in electronic services as well as new IT-related projects to be undertaken by Dubai Municipality such as the Building System, Customer Relations Management System....etc.