SIEMENS is showcasing its full range of integrated building technology solutions for the protection of businesses, people, assets and facilities at the three-day Intersec 2016 that opened yesterday (Jan. 17) in Dubai. This year, Siemens is highlighting fire protection at Intersec, focusing on its portfolio of technologies for fire safety that improve resource and cost control across simple and complex environments. Its portfolio delivers the highest levels of comfort, efficiency, safety and security for customer facilities, by ensuring optimum system performance over the lifecycle of a building, whether a mall, hotel, university, data center, office building or industrial environment. "Fire protection is a significant market for us in the Middle East. It is important that a tailored solution is engineered to suit each customer's environment, whether it is a historic building, a data center, a hotel or an industrial facility. We are able to address unique and complex environmental requirements, and tie them into a smart, total building management solution for efficient control and monitoring," said Koen Bogers, Senior Executive Vice President, Building Technologies, Siemens Middle East and UAE.