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    The Bahrain World Trade Center 1 in Manama, Bahrain is 240 meters tall with 45 floors. Completed in 2008, it incorporates three large wind turbines that generate electricity from wind funneled between the building's elliptical towers. The building shape was designed through wind tunnel testing to maximize wind speeds around the turbines. The turbines have helped the building pioneer sustainable design and generate renewable energy.

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    The Bahrain World Trade Center 1 in Manama, Bahrain is 240 meters tall with 45 floors. Completed in 2008, it incorporates three large wind turbines that generate electricity from wind funneled between the building's elliptical towers. The building shape was designed through wind tunnel testing to maximize wind speeds around the turbines. The turbines have helped the building pioneer sustainable design and generate renewable energy.

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    The Bahrain World Trade Center 1 in Manama, Bahrain is 240 meters tall with 45 floors. Completed in 2008, it incorporates three large wind turbines that generate electricity from wind funneled between the building's elliptical towers. The building shape was designed through wind tunnel testing to maximize wind speeds around the turbines. The turbines have helped the building pioneer sustainable design and generate renewable energy.

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    The Bahrain World Trade Center 1 in Manama, Bahrain is 240 meters tall with 45 floors. Completed in 2008, it incorporates three large wind turbines that generate electricity from wind funneled between the building's elliptical towers. The building shape was designed through wind tunnel testing to maximize wind speeds around the turbines. The turbines have helped the building pioneer sustainable design and generate renewable energy.

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    Bahrain World Trade Center 1


    Height: To Tip
    240 m / 787 ft
    Height:
    Architectural
    240 m / 787 ft

    Height: Occupied
    168.8 m / 554 ft

    Floors Above Ground


    45
    Floors Below Ground
    1

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    Facts

    Companies Involved

    Official Name
    Name of Complex
    Other Names

    Bahrain W orld Trade Center 1


    Bahrain W orld Trade Center
    Bahrain W orld Trade Center East Tow er

    Architect
    Design
    Structural Engineer

    Structure Type
    Status
    Country

    Building
    Completed
    Bahrain

    Design
    Main Contractor
    Other Consultant

    City
    Street Address & Map
    Building Function
    Structural Material
    Construction Start
    Completion
    Official W ebsite

    Manama
    King Faisal Highw ay
    office
    steel/concrete
    2004
    2008
    Bahrain W orld Trade Center

    Rankings

    W ind

    Atkins
    Atkins
    Murray & Roberts; Rambll Kbenhavn
    BMT Fluid Mechanics Ltd.

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    Global Ranking

    #381 Tallest in the W orld

    Regional Ranking

    #70 Tallest in Middle East

    National Ranking

    #4 Tallest in Bahrain

    City Ranking

    #4 Tallest in Manama

    About Bahrain World T rade Center 1


    The Bahrain World Trade Center integrates large-scale wind turbines into its design; and together with numerous energy reducing and
    recovery systems, this development shows an unequivocal commitment to raising global awareness for sustainable design. This building is
    pioneering a new direction for designers and owners acting as a technological precedent. The BWTC has shown that commercial
    developments can be created with a strong environmental agenda and addresses the needs of our future generations. The BWTC
    encapsulates the essence of a sustainable philosophy engaging all of the social, economic and environmental impacts of the project. As well
    as making significant strides in environmentally balanced architecture, the building is now considered a source of national pride for Bahrain
    residents, and is attributed with generating economic prosperity within the capital of Manama.
    The BWTC forms the focal point of a master plan to rejuvenate the 30-year-old existing hotel and shopping mall on the site. The planning of

    the site became constrained by the existing buildings and the road network around the site. By extending the main axis of the existing
    shopping mall towards the sea and creating a secondary axis from the Hotel, Retail Streets were established. The twin towers natural
    location was therefore positioned on the main axis, facing the Arabian Gulf and creating the entrance for the development.
    The inspiration for the twin towers originated from regional Wind Towers and their ability to funnel wind, and the vast sails of the
    traditional Arabian Dhow as they harness the breeze in driving them forward. After careful Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling and
    extensive wind tunnel testing, the towers shape was literally carved out by the wind to create optimum airflow around the buildings. The
    elliptical plan forms act as aerofoils (see plans on page 91), funneling the onshore breeze between them, creating a negative pressure
    behind, thus accelerating wind velocity between the two towers. Vertically, the sculpting of the towers is also a function of airflow
    dynamics.
    As they taper skywards, the aerofoil sections reduce. This effect, combined with the increasing onshore wind velocity at higher altitudes
    creates a near equal regime of wind speed on each of the three turbines, irrespective of height, allowing them to rotate at the same speed
    and generate the same energy levels. The three 29-meter (95-foot)-diameter, 11 ton wind turbines are supported on 31.5-meter (103foot), 70 ton bridges between the towers. Each turbine generates 225kW. The buildings have been sculpted to funnel the uninterrupted onshore breeze onto the turbines and create a perpendicular slip stream that corrects the wind direction to take advantage of 70% of
    Bahrains wind energy.
    The premium on this project for including the wind turbines was less than 3% of project value. Based on the energy savings and the
    increased value of the building having wind turbines, the payback period is extremely favorable. The initial energy yields during the design
    phase was approximately 15%, therefore 1300MWh per year; however, from early commissioning results the turbines are estimated to
    generate substantially more energy due to the reduced occupancy profile of the building and the wider operational period of the turbines.

    Bahrain World Trade Center 1


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