Building automation infrastructure, Zayed National Museum
Control panels and controls integration for a museum where the climate is part of the exhibit protection: engineered by GANI Engineering, built and tested as a documented panel family by GANI Manufacturing.
- Delivery geography
- United Arab Emirates
- Variants in scope
- 12 panel types across plant rooms and galleries
- Program duration
- 18 months across two packages
- Responsibility level
- Work package
- Standards applied
- IEC 61439-1/-2 · IEC 60364 installation practice · Client BMS specification
Schematic elevation drawn by GANI to locate the scope — not an architectural document.
A museum in the Gulf asks two things of its building systems at once: keep galleries within a conservation window that barely moves, and do it in a building designed to breathe through five tall thermal towers. Add a construction site in 45 °C, imported equipment that must survive shipping and storage, and a commissioning window measured against an opening date — and the automation infrastructure becomes a documentation problem as much as an engineering one.
STARTING CONDITIONA mechanical and electrical design existed with a defined control philosophy. The panel design, the manufactured hardware and the field-level integration were open.
- Control philosophy and points list per zone
- Mechanical schedules for air handling, chilled water and the tower ventilation
- Client BMS specification and naming convention
- Ambient and enclosure requirements for the region
- Commissioning programme against the opening date
- Detailed panel design per plant room and gallery zone
- Manufacture of the controller and distribution panel family to IEC 61439
- Climate-rated enclosure selection, thermal calculation and derating review
- Functional test of each panel against its points list before shipping
- Controls programming, graphics and BMS point integration
- Commissioning support with the mechanical contractor on site
What the program delivers.
- Gallery zones held within their conservation window through commissioning
- One panel family, one labelling convention, one document set across the plant rooms
- Points verified in the factory, so BMS integration on site started from a known state
- Spares and replacement panels reproducible from the build record years later
What the infrastructure actually controls.
- 01Gallery climate zones: temperature, humidity and pressure cascade
- 02Thermal tower ventilation and damper control
- 03Exhibit lighting scenes and daylight compensation
- 04Chilled water and air-handling plant interfaces
- 05Fire and security signalling interfaces
- 06Monitoring and alarm routing for conservation-critical rooms
