ACC eyes partition for two-speed Dubai Mixed Use

Dubai Mixed Use's office building on Sheikh Zayed Road.

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The builder of the twin-tower Dubai Mixed Use development is to put a partition through the podium so that office tower can be completed while the hotel tower remains in design stage.

Raed Khaled Khadijah, construction manager on the Downtown Dubai project at ACC, said that the office structure had been completed earlier this year and that the company was executing the interiors work itself.

By contrast, the hotel tower - which shares the five-storey podium - has been frozen at five floors for the last year following the decision by the client to substantially revise its design and scale to adjust to a cooler Dubai market, sources told CW on a site visit in January. The hotel structure will now be 31 floors, almost half the 56 floors originally planned

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“We expect the handover of the office tower to happen in February 2012,” he said. “For the hotel we’re doing block work only.”

With swift work on the 49-storey office tower, ACC will install a partition to allow its timely delivery even as the hotel remains on the drawing board. “We’ve done this before, where there will be a partition between the two,” he said. “It means we can hand over everything, including the car park, so it can be finished and the tenants of the offices can move in.”

The office tower will comprise of commercial space from floors five to 21, with residential space above that.

Khadlijah added that ACC is also making swift work fixing the steel structure on the roof for the cladding and that it and the client is working on a design mock-up for a typical hotel room, and once this is completed, the full design for the scaled down hotel can begin.