The world’s largest building, founded on Vogel pumps...

11/01/2007

Pumping water around the world’s largest building would never be a small task, but Vogel is proving up to the job.

Application: Municipal water supply

The development of the King Abdul Aziz Endowment Project in Makkah in Saudi Arabia (more commonly known as Mecca) has been an ambitious project.
It is considered to be the largest architectural
project in the world, built with the purpose of raising revenue to finance maintenance and enhancement of the Grand Mosque in Makkah and the Prophets Mosque
in Medinah.
There will be six 36-storey towers built on a 12-
storey podium, with one main 73-storey hotel that will take its place among the world’s tallest towers.
The pumping capacities required to feed water to
the buildings are large, and the building contractor,
Saudi Binladin Group in Jeddah, approached ITT Vogel in Europe.
“We got a positive answer that ITT Vogel can
design and built these pumps and that's how the
story started,” explains Fuad Asemjed, from Morex, Inc, the engineering agent that managed negotiations with the contractor and the designers, Dar Al-Handasah Consulting in Cairo.

Download the Case Story in PDF format

ITT-Lowara (www.lowara.com), headquarters of "Residential and Commercial Water - EMEA" part of the ITT Corporation and located in Montecchio Maggiore, Vicenza - Italy, is a leading manufacturer of hydraulic pumps and water handling and control systems. It has 1.819 employees in Europe, 675 operating in Italy. In 2009 its consolidated sales totalled about 286 million €, or over 396 million $.
ITT Corporation (www.itt.com) is a high-technology engineering and manufacturing company operating on all seven continents in three vital markets: water and fluids management, global defense and security, and motion and flow control. With a heritage of innovation, ITT partners with its customers to deliver extraordinary solutions that create more livable environments, provide protection and safety and connect our world. Headquartered in White Plains, N.Y., the company generated 2009 revenue of $10.9 billion.