The US-based York International has won a $25 million contract to cool the Dubai International Airport (DIA) expansion project.

Claimed to be the world’s single-largest air-conditioning order in history, the contract has established the Fortune 500 company’s position as a global leader in providing and maintaining heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC&R) systems.
“This high-profile contract continues our track record of having success with large, high-profile projects and ties into our capabilities and our skills from an engineering perspective with challenging applications,” says C David Myers, president and CEO of York International. “We won this primarily because we have succeeded in performing very well with our past efforts at the existing Sheikh Rashid Terminal.”
The contract, provides a cooling capacity of 118,000 tonnes to the upcoming terminal and associated buildings.
All the new York chillers being used for this project will use environment-friendly refrigerant HFC-134a. York Dubai will deliver all the chillers to site in accordance with a critical schedule, supervise installation and commission and maintain all chillers.
York Dubai will also design, supply, install and maintain a complete chiller automation system for all chiller plants at the Dubai airport, which includes control and sequencing of all primary chilled and condenser water pumps and cooling towers.
The first CYK Compound Chillers to provide cooling to the airport’s Flower Center will be operational this month.
In addition, the company having established its Middle East headquarters in Dubai in 1978, is now keen to further expand in the region.
“We are confident that the high-quality of our equipment and the investment we are making in our people will help us keep ahead of competition and tap the wide range of exciting and invigorating opportunities available to us in the Middle East region, where air conditioning and refrigeration facilities form key components of any development activity.
“We see the Middle East as our fastest growing market and, in particular, Dubai is perhaps the single fastest growing city in which we operate and we are continuing to expand our efforts here,” says Myers.
Beyond the UAE, York has been associated with major projects like the Prophet’s Mosque extension in Madinah and Cairo, Dhahran, Jeddah and Riyadh international airports.
“As markets in the region prosper, continue to grow and become available to us, we intend to be leaders in those markets as well,” explains Myers. “In particular, our strength lies in the large tonnage chiller equipment which, to our advantage, is primarily the focus area in the applications that we see in the region,” he concludes.