Among the vast skyline of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam one building stands out. Labeled the tallest building in Ho Chi Minh, the Bitexco Financial Tower stands at 265.5m in height, overshadowing its surrounding neighbours in the heart of Ho Chi Minh s sprawling Business District 1.
Designed by New York based architects Carlos Zapata Studio, the iconic Bitexco Financial Tower is owned by Bitexco Group, a wholly Vietnamese company. It boasts 68 floors above ground and 3 basements encased in a glass and steel case shaped as a lotus petal,the national flower of Vietnam.With over 16 elevators to ensure arrival at any position or floor in the building within 45 seconds as well as an estimated 10,000 people slated to work there, Bitexco Financial Tower requires an energy source such as Cummins Power Generation that is highly reliable,ensuring daily operations within the building go smoothly.
Just as the Bitexco Group enjoys a luminary reputation in the financial world, Cummins Power Generation is a forerunner in the power generator set industry and it is only fair that the best deserves the best.
For such an aesthetically unique building as the Bitexco Financial Tower, touted to be technologically avant-garde, special attention is required and Cummins Power Generation rose to that challenge by designing a paralleling of two groups of generator sets such that they integrated with the power management system to provide maximum utilization of the available generator capacity.In creating the perfect power solution for Bitexco Financial Tower,
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