- Intelligent campus app will enhance users’ experience, from reserving desks to requesting room temperatures adjustments, when Dubai facilities open this year
- App supplements the smart building infrastructure Siemens is providing to help the University toward its goal of a smart and sustainable campus
The University of Birmingham has selected Siemens to create an intelligent campus app that will help make its Dubai campus one of the smartest and most sustainable environments for higher education in the world. Under their agreement, Siemens will deploy the customized app to bring the benefits of digitalization to the mobile phones and computers of students, faculty, staff and visitors alike, enhancing their experiences at the University’s new campus in Dubai.
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The Ministry and Siemens signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate long term to move the UAE closer toward its sustainability and digitalization goals
- Siemens is a global leader in smart infrastructure; the company has delivered technology at Expo 2020 Dubai that serves as a blueprint for future smart
The United Arab Emirates’ Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure signed a memorandum of understanding with Siemens to start negotiations aimed at establishing a long-term partnership to help the ministry reach its sustainability and digitalization targets. The discussions will cover technologies for smart buildings, microgrid and industrial energy management, and intelligent substations on the grid edge.
- The Dubai Expo site, with infrastructure connected by Siemens digital technology, provides a template for smart cities globally
- Siemens designed a web-based smart city app for site managers to optimize efficiency, save energy, curb emissions and enhance safety
- Siemens guests at Expo can immerse themselves in an interactive experience about digitalization of infrastructure, manufacturing and transportation
Expo 2020 Dubai has opened to the world, with Siemens providing technology to ensure the site’s buildings and other infrastructure become part of a lasting legacy.
The first Expo to be held in the Middle East, Asia, or Africa gives visitors a chance to experience how digitally-connected smart cities can help overcome some of humanity’s most pressing challenges. As the Premier Partner for Infrastructure Digitalization at Expo 2020 Dubai, Siemens has digitally linked more than 130 buildings at a purpose-built site twice the size of Monaco. About 80 percent of Expo’s infrastructure will remain after the six-month event ends in March 2022, forming the core of a sustainable new urban district of Dubai, known as District 2020. The Expo site itself is designed as a blueprint for future smart cities everywhere.
- Shoukry has more than two decades of experience in financial roles covering the Middle East, Europe, and Africa
Siemens in Egypt appointed Dalia Shoukry as the Chief Financial Officer of the company. Shoukry has over two decades of experience in corporate finance in the pharmaceuticals industry. Prior to Siemens, she was AstraZeneca’s international finance director, and previously held senior financial roles based in Egypt, the U.K. and France with responsibilities spanning Europe, the Middle East and Africa at AstraZeneca and Bristol Myers Squibb. She earned a degree in accounting from Ain Shams University.
- Agreement comprises a rail system with a network of around 1000km – first being a 460km project valued around 3bn$
- Turnkey Engineering, Procurement and Construction project including 15 years of services
- Siemens Mobility to provide high-speed and regional trains, locomotives, rail infrastructure, system integration and other services
The National Authority for Tunnels, a governmental authority under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Transport of Egypt, and Siemens Mobility have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) - together with the local companies Orascom Construction S.A.E. and The Arab Contractors (Osman Ahmed Osman & Co.) - to design, install and commission Egypt’s first ever high-speed rail transportation system. Additionally, Siemens Mobility will be providing maintenance services. The agreement comprises a rail system with a network of 1000km, with the first being a 460km high-speed line. The order value of this initial high-speed line is around 3bn$.
- Egyptian Electricity Transmission Co. selected Siemens and Hassan Allam Construction to build the country’s new power grid control center, which will be located in Egypt’s New Administrative Capital
- The 838 million Egyptian pounds control center will use the latest software to monitor, manage and control extra-high voltage transmission networks and power generation plants across the country
Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company awarded the consortium of Siemens and Hassan Allam a contract to build the New National Energy Control Center in the New Administrative Capital of Egypt.
- Siemens and UDT won the contract for the control, surveillance, and fire systems for Ahmed Hamdy Tunnel 2
- Siemens equipment and systems will ensure safe and efficient traffic flow at the tunnel
Siemens was awarded a contract to provide the command control and communication systems for Ahmed Hamdy Tunnel 2, a transportation link beneath the Suez Canal that will ease movement between cities in the South of Sinai and the rest of Egypt.
- Facility will treat up to 15,000 patients a year, and will feature Covid-19 diagnostic services
- Smart Clinic includes specialized gynecology, internal medicine, pediatrics, ophthalmology, dentistry, and orthopedics departments
Siemens AG and Siemens Energy AG, two independent companies within the Siemens ecosystem, inaugurated a smart clinic in the Shoubra El Kheima province near Cairo that will provide quality healthcare to about 15,000 patients a year.
- Bashaer El Khair is part of a national project to set up urban modern cities to drive the country’s economic and social development
- Project set to supply power from national grid to feed new residential complex
In a new move aimed at improving the resilience of Egypt’s power transmission network, Siemens Energy has been selected by the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) to connect Bashaer El Khair City project in Alexandria city with the country’s national grid. The new grid project will help supply electrical power to more than 25,000 residential units, in over 250 apartment buildings and service centers.
- Siemens Energy provides 10 year Preventive Service contract
- Underlines capabilities of Siemens Energy in supporting the petrochemical and downstream sectors
- Project will improve reliability and availability at the industrial complex in Egypt
Siemens Energy has signed a long-term preventive maintenance contract with the Egyptian Ethylene and Derivatives Company (ETHYDCO), for its industrial complex in Alexandria, Egypt.