The BEEAH breakthrough

Empowering people with a workspace that works for them
We’ve all been there. You’re late for a morning meeting and haven’t had a coffee yet. The clock is ticking: but, what if, with one simple interaction, an AI-enabled virtual personal assistant alerts your colleagues, and even orders your coffee?

And when you do finally make it – because the building has prepared for your impending arrival – you can focus your attention where it needs to be: the meeting. You’re welcomed and guided as you make your way along frictionless connected pathways to the meeting room, thanks to advanced facial recognition technology. Entering the room, you get a personalized greeting from the meeting room assistant. You seamlessly connect your laptop and smartphone to the meeting room presentation system and start to feel relaxed. Any pesky issues with the meeting room equipment are resolved using a simple voice command. The room temperature and lighting are just how you like it.

The workspace is so fluid that you can forget the small stuff and focus entirely on your meeting. Tasks are effortlessly assigned throughout the meeting via the OpenBlue Companion app. And then your delicious Gahwa coffee arrives. Perfection.

Just imagine the productivity and efficiency achieved in a work environment like this?

The team at BEEAH Headquarters doesn’t have to imagine. One of the world’s most innovative buildings and smartest workplaces has just opened its doors.

A smart leap into the future
The beautiful and the sublime, the BEEAH Headquarters delivers personalized experiences through seamless AI-based interactions, making employees and visitors more comfortable, safe, and productive. It also happens to be one of the most sustainable and stunning buildings in the world. Inspiring surroundings rarely get better than this.

Pioneering the future of smart, healthy, sustainable spaces
The headquarters is already tipped as the benchmark for green buildings of the future. The iconic building is a living, operational showcase of the pioneering values at BEEAH – digitalization and sustainability.

Designed by the late trailblazer architect Zaha Hadid, the extraordinary 9,000-square-metre structure sits effortlessly in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) landscape.

Featuring intelligent edge systems and software designed to optimize energy efficiency, the net zero energy building is the first fully AI-integrated building in the region and boasts a LEED platinum certification.

A companion for life: amazing experiences in smarter spaces
By using cloud and hundreds of artificial intelligence (AI) use cases – with OpenBlue solutions – employees and visitors experience unparalleled interaction with the building at all times.

The personalized employee experience, powered by OpenBlue Companion, includes:

• A virtual personal assistant via a mobile app to provide news, meeting schedules, and quick access to help if needed
• Intelligent concierge services to help employees locate available meeting spaces, book appointments, give directions, and support day-to-day tasks
• Advanced facial recognition for seamless movement between spaces
• Frictionless access to promote the health and safety of employees
• Comfort control – the ability to operate lighting and temperature to save and direct energy
• A connected meeting room assistant to greet, help with meeting IT issues, and order beverages
• Bluetooth smart speakers directly connected to the building to sync with a calendar system for meeting reservations and to create instant bookings
• Smart security – to track and monitor building occupants

Visitors to the BEEAH Headquarters can also expect VIP treatment:

• Option to interact with the headquarters before a meeting via a dedicated chat bot
• Greeted upon arrival by a virtual concierge
• QR code scanner for paperless sign-in access
• Smart back-office integration and smart security – to track and monitor building occupants
• Meeting room assistant benefits

The AI-based capabilities will enable the self-healing of the BEEAH Headquarters while the installation of OpenBlue Digital Twin technologies will allow for faster, smarter, data- driven decisions to plan, manage, and enhance the building.

A commitment to the circular economy

The BEEAH Group’s vision of pioneering a sustainable quality of life has led the organization to be at the forefront of the UAE’s transition to a circular economy. The headquarters reflects this with an onsite greywater recycling system that achieves 90% efficiency of all mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems.

The BEEAH Headquarters will also host a range of visitors in its visitor center, auditorium and art gallery for community engagement and outreach initiatives.

Pioneers have a vision for a better way of life. The BEEAH Headquarters is the smart space of the future – a space for others to aspire to.

BEEAH’s new headquarters’ technologies and systems have been developed in partnership with Johnson Controls, Microsoft, and BEEAH’s digital venture, Evoteq.

Find out more about the evolution of the BEEAH Headquarters here.