The Conrad Hotel is a prestigious five star hotel located on Dubai's Sheikh Zayed Road, expected to open in the first quarter of 2012. Conrad is the luxury brand of the Hilton International hospitality group, and the first one in the region, with a total development of 180,000 m2; the structure is a mixed-use development 250 m tall. The soaring tower includes 559 rooms above a 40,000 m2 Grade A office tower and a 5,000 m2 outdoor leisure deck and pool area.
1800 units of a newly-innovative Somfy Automated Curtain Track: GLYDEA are being installed for black-out curtains and sheers in guest rooms as well as in public areas. Also 475 units of Sonesse 30 RTS, the most silent tubular motorization system in the market with Somfy radio frequency technology, are also being installed for bathrooms window coverings for roller shades as well as cord-lift roman,.
Glydea curtain motorization solutions meet the requirements of the most prestigious projects. Motorized curtains are becoming a common feature of top of the range projects such as highly-quality hotels, luxury homes, meeting and conference venues.
Glydea is aesthetic with its patented cover neat design; flexible, it can be adapted to different types of curtains; quiet with a low noise level (<44 dB(A)); touch motion feature to open and close the curtain manually; maintenance free.
Sonesse, the range of quiet motors from Somfy is designed for acoustic comfort, designed for success. It's designed for all applications: roller blinds, venetian blinds, Roman blinds, pleated and cellular blinds and projector screens. Sonesse 30 is compatible with RTS, RS485 and Dry Contact technologies.
Similar Somfy Automation systems for all types of Curtains & Shades have been installed in landmark Hotels in the MENA region, notably, Armani Hotel in Burj Khalifa in Dubai, Ritz Carlton in DIFC Dubai, Meydan Banyan Tree Hotel in Dubai, Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel in Dubai, W Hotel in Doha, Qatar, InterContinental City Stars Hotel in Cairo, St. Regis Hotel & Resort on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi, Intercontinental Hotel in DFC in Dubai, Jumeirah Messilah Hotel & Resort in Kuwait, Park Hyatt in Jeddah in KSA, and Hilton Double Tree Hotel in Istanbul Turkey, among many others throughout the whole MENA region.
For the past 40 years, Somfy has invented, designed and created controls and motors for openings and closures in residential and commercial buildings, using high-tech motorization and automation systems.
Somfy is sensitive to environmental issues and operates a strategy of anticipating comfort and energy cost reduction requirements for buildings of all types.
Dynamic Insulation, daylight management and natural ventilation are Somfy's three unique areas of expertise dedicated to the development of bioclimatic facades: with our automatic controls, facades become bioclimatic, solar protections react to weather variations offering occupants greater comfort while saving energy.
Today, Somfy with its 68 subsidiaries worldwide is the leading partner in building construction and has significant references throughout the world. Our completed projects spans a wide range of building types, from Hotels to Offices, Education and Healthcare buildings.
Somfy is present all over the Middle East, our local and international teams are dedicated to using their professional skills to contribute with you at each stage of your projects from design to post-occupancy.
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