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Bahrain World Trade Center, Manama Development
BWTC wins prestigious NOVA Award for Innovation
18 Nov 2009
The Atkins designed Bahrain World Trade Center Wind Turbines has been
selected by the NOVA Awards Jury to receive the 2009 NOVA Award in
Innovation.

This award, instituted by the Construction Innovation Forum in 1989
is a distinction that illuminates the innovations that have made important
contributions to the international construction industry. This year
a total of 641 international entries vied for recognition, first undergoing
an investigation by national engineering experts before being subjected
to a panel of jurors.
The award was presented at the Awards Gala in Lake Buena Vista (Orlando),
Florida on Tuesday, November 17 in conjunction with the National Conference
of the Construction Users Round Table (CURT).
In acknowledgement of the award, Atkins Design Director Shaun Killa
thanked the jury for recognising the firm's engineering innovation
in the international construction industry.
"We are honoured that the Bahrain World Trade Center has been
awarded this highly prestigious accolade for Innovation in the global
construction industry. We hope this award will encourage others designers
and developers to consider more innovative design solutions to reduce
their building's energy and water consumption, and ultimately reduce
their carbon emissions."
The NOVA Awards Banquet is the annual international showcase for construction
innovation. Please visit www.curt.org for more information.
Iconic Bahrain towers reach further milestone
The Atkins-designed Bahrain World Trade Center (BWTC) has announced
the official certification of the buildings wind turbines by
Bahrains Electricity Distribution Directorate (EDD).

BWTC Photo from Atkins 211108
The turbines were inaugurated in April of 2008. Since then they have
been undergoing daily safety and regulatory testing, and were commissioned
to mark Bahrains National Day in December 2008. The BWTCs
turbines are the first in the world to be integrated into a large
scale commercial development, and are predicted to provide 11-15%
of the power needed to operate the offices of the 50 storey twin towers.
Peter Longstaff, Atkins senior project manager, said: The
official certification from the EDD means that the turbines have passed
their health and safety and quality inspections, so they are now fully
operational and are supplying power to the development.
This milestone follows the BWTCs most recent accolade, when
it was named Best Tall Building in the Middle East and
Africa region for 2008 by architectures leading body dedicated
to the field of tall buildings, The Council on Tall Buildings and
Urban Habitat (CTBUH).
Bahrain World Trade Center, Manama, Bahrain
23 Dec 2007

Bahrain World Trade Center - Description
Atkins was appointed to provide all masterplanning architecture and
structural and MEP engineering design services for the Bahrain World
Trade Center site, located on the main King Faisal Highway in Manama,
Bahrain. More than half its area was previously developed, and comprised
the Sheraton Bahrain Hotel, an associated single-storey luxury shopping
mall, an office tower, car parking facilities, services and landscaped
areas.
We developed the masterplan for the extended development that rejuvenates
the existing mall and hotel and provides additional 50 storey twin
office towers with unobstructed views over the Arabian Gulf, a new
shopping mall with anchor tenant and several food outlets.
The focal point of the development is the twin triangular shaped towers
which sit above a sculpted three-story podium. Tapering to a height
of 240m, each tower is visually anchored to the ground by a concertina
of curved, sail-like forms, and provides 34 floors of office space
and an exclusive viewing deck on the 42nd floor.
Unique to this building and rising to the challenge of incorporating
renewable energy solutions within sustainable architecture, the design
includes three 29m diameter wind turbines horizontally supported on
bridges. The turbines are expected to produce between 11 and 15 percent
of the total electrical consumption of the towers.

Many months of research, including extensive dialogue with turbine
manufacturers, was conducted through the feasibility concept and design
development stages of the project. Technical validation included computational
fluid dynamics modelling, wind tunnel testing, vibration and acoustic
assessments, electrical integration analysis and SARM analysis. Output
from these was incorporated by design teams into an integrated building,
bridge and turbine design. Atkins is also responsible for the supervision
of construction.
Client: Confidential
Facility: Commercial
Features: 240m high twin office towers, shopping mall and food outlets
Size: 120,00m2 total built up area
Status: Under construction
Awards: LEAF Awards 2006 - Best use of technology within a large scheme
Bahrain World Trade Center images / information from Atkins 231207
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The Bahrain World Trade Center is a flagship development for Bahrain, raising
the profile of Manama as it projects a world first in large scale integrated
wind turbine use.
Bahrain World Trade Center :
Wind Turbines Technical Paper
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: Atkins
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