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Keeping a building working and compliant in Dubai, from fire systems to water tanks to the maintenance schedule.
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Dubai Civil Defence governs a building's fire systems in two layers: a design code, and an operational layer run through its Smart Services portal and the Hassantuk alarm-monitoring network. This sets out what each layer covers, and what it does not publish.
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How Dubai law defines the Management Entity that takes over a building's common parts, which of the developer's obligations transfer with it, and which handover documents, an asset register and O&M manuals among them, exist only because good practice, not statute, puts them there.
8 min read
How Dubai's jointly-owned-property law makes a lift a shared building asset, how a 2026 law puts ageing buildings through a timed inspection and certification cycle, and where the public rules stop short of fixing a trapped-passenger response time.
6 min read
How a planned preventive maintenance schedule gets built from manufacturer instructions and recognised standards, what belongs in an asset register, and the point in Dubai's own building rules where a missed service turns into a bigger bill.
7 min read
How Dubai's Law No. (6) of 2019 turns a residential tower's cleaning into an audited contract rather than a promise, how a frequency matrix and staffing plan are actually built, and where the regulation stops short.
8 min read
How Dubai's Security Industry Regulatory Agency licenses security guards and the companies that employ them, what training and certificates each cadre category needs, how a camera or alarm system gets SIRA approval, and what a hotel, bank or tower block must run under the law.
8 min read
Dubai Municipality's own technical guideline on water tanks: the twice-yearly minimum, the requirement to use a Municipality-approved contractor, the certificate and contract a building must hold, and the quarterly testing that keeps the file open afterwards.
6 min read
How a Dubai facility management contract is actually structured: the split between hard and soft services, the scope schedule that fixes what is covered, response and resolution times, KPI-linked penalties, and the RERA and Mollak rules that sit above the contract itself.
6 min read
Dubai does not set a tube-cleaning calendar for a tower's chiller plant. It sets a five-yearly re-commissioning duty above 2 megawatts, an annual efficiency ceiling for the plant, and a fixed 2030 date after which HCFC refrigerant cannot be used at all.
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