Financial Harbour - Bahrain

The Bahrain Financial Harbour Holding Company has unveiled a blue print that boasts of some of the region’s most technologically advanced system designed to ensure optimal security and enhance- energy consumption savings at its landmark US$1.4 billion Bahrain Financial Harbour (BFH) waterfront development.

The financial sector is one of the most competition intensive sectors, with Bahrain alone hosting over 365 financial sector companies. The importance of data security and confidentiality is one of the foremost criteria of risk management and also plays a key role in the decision-making process for the location of a firm’s headquarters and its key R&D facilities”, said Stephen Rothe, BFH CEO

BFH has implemented fully integrated security system based on Internet Protocol solution having features for local / central / remote monitoring and controlling facilities. The security system mainly comprises three elements – CCTV for surveillance, Access Control and intercom.

Access control system engages the Smart Card technology, which is programmed at various security levels. Through these smart cards, tenants will be allowed access to only certain pre-defined areas of the facility. Similarly, the established visitors’ management system will help control movement of visitors within the building.

Additionally, the entire facility is hooked up with CCTV facilities, which are centrally monitored 24 hours a day from a single control room. While this security features covers all public areas of the buildings, tenants have the additional option of requesting for this system to be extended to cover their individual facilities.

BFH also implemented a scaleable converged ICT distribution network with all active and passive components based on CISCO Solutions in the project. ICT backbone network engages greater level of network security within BFH and BFH/Tenant network from outside world by enabling security features by deploying redundant fire walls on various network layers including access / distribution /core layers.

Multi systems are converged in a common fiber-optic backbone system and connected to the central control system, which has the facility for management, accountability and monitoring of each service independently. The ICT network is designed to provide tenants with services such as VoIP telephone, Internet VPN, Site-to-Site VPN, Multicast (TV Broadcast), Desktop Video conferencing and provisions for connecting future tenants security system (CCTV and Access control)

One of the key highlights of the technology blue print is the implementation of a fully integrated building management solution, which incorporates energy management system resulting in a considerable amount of energy savings during building operations.


BFH's energy conservation concept provides a state-of-art, technology based lighting control system.. The concept further utilizes return air exhaust for air-conditioning the plant rooms, and introducing variable frequency drives in the entire air and water distribution network.

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Gulf International Investment Company to move
Offices to Harbour Towers at Bahrain.

In a significant indication of the continued enthusiasm among local and regional companies to be part of the BFH business community, Gulf International Investment Company, a consortium of Bahraini and GCC businessmen based in the Kingdom, has committed to move its offices to the Harbour towers of the integrated financial and business development.

The financial center being launched recently and very much under the publicity glares. Additionally the developments occupancy is witnessing a significant upward momentum. Gulf international company is one of the fastest growing real estate development and investment companies in the region and this decision will certainly put it on a high growth curve . With significant investment interests in the GCC, including Bahrain, the company’s decision to base its operation in BFH will also help it to consolidate business operations. Gulf international investment company, which has been set up with the objective of pioneering real estate development and investment in the Kingdom of Bahrain, will be taking up space on the 10th floor of Harbour Towers.