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Tabreed seeks to buy PAL cooling unit from Abu Dhabi’s Multiply

District cooling is viewed as more environmentally friendly than traditional air conditioning and has become critical to beating the heat in the Gulf

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The Louvre Abu Dhabi museum is among the UAE's monumental buildings kept cool by Tabreed

Stepping inside any of the UAE’s palatial-sized attractions – from Dubai’s 163-story Burj Khalifa and metal-domed Louvre Abu Dhabi to the gleaming white Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque – visitors hit a wall of cool air that provides relief from the...