Dilip is a man with a mission - ‘To per se reduce the energy consumption and make the world a Greener place’.

Armed with a Mechanical Engineering degree from Cochin in Kerala, India, Dilip started his career in Engineering Consultancy. He turned an entrepreneur when he set up his own business in Zambia then migrated to Australia, started operations in Kuwait and in 1999 came to Dubai, UAE to set-up Pacific Controls. His headquarter building is the first Platinum rated green building accredited by the US Green Building Council (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED) programme in the Middle East and sixteenth in the world.

The Green building has already won two international awards one at Boston in June 2007: as the "Extreme Office Building in the world", "Digie Award" against Taipei 101 and Shanghai Financial Centre; and the Best Intelligent Building in the World in Chicago Buildcon 2007.

 Pacific Controls operates a state-of-the-art Central Command Control Centre that provides 24x7x365 days customer support by remotely monitoring customers' assets. The Command Control Centre provides remote monitoring and control of all electro-mechanical and security services at the customers' facilities, thus reducing operational and energy costs, and utilizing resources effectively.

The Command Control Centre services currently extend to prestigious clients like Dubai Municipality, Dubai Development Board (DDB), Emaar, the World project of Nakheel, and several individual buildings and villas in Dubai.

Dilip was selected as the ‘Green Hero’ not only because of his passion for energy conservation, but also for his vision of harnessing solar energy for energy generation. His new venture, Solar Technologies FZE will be based in Dubai’s Technopark where a 130 mega watt manufacturing plant will be set up in phase 1 of the project. Subsequently, Solar Technnologies plans to establish similar plants in China, Mexico and Bulgaria, which will increase the total production capacity to 1 giga watt by 2015.

The world needs a few more Dilip’s to change our planet!

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