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Sustainability is not a cost but a measurable, monetisable performance advantage, a strategy Qatar has steadfastly followed and a model worth emulating, according to a top official of EnergyX, South Korea's global leader in energy optimisation and now shifted its global command centre and international headquarters to Doha.The move behind the creation of EnergyX – where deep tech, architecture and sustainability converge – has come in view of accelerating global demand for decarbonised buildings, its chief executive officer Sean Park told Gulf Times on the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress, which concluded Wednesday.Quoting the World Green Building Council, he said buildings account for about 39% of global carbon emissions, making the built environment the world’s most significant single source of emissions — and therefore one of its greatest opportunities.“That statistic hit us with clarity,” recalled Park, who had earlier served as a board director at Tapas, an entertainment-technology company acquired in Silicon Valley for $510mn.The Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) market was valued at approximately $23.6bn in 2023 and is projected to grow to between $80bn and $90bn by 2030, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 21%.EnergyX stands as a global leader, with more than 2,000 projects, more than 300 IP assets, and the groundbreaking EnergyX DY-Building — the world’s first certified Plus-Energy Building achieving 129.6% verified energy self-sufficiency.Highlighting Doha's central role in its global strategy; he said from its base in Qatar, EnergyX now directs a growing global network — integrating strategic acquisitions worldwide while co-ordinating its worldwide operations and R&D (research and development) from Qatar”.Park emphasised that Qatar is not simply a regional office — it is the anchor point for EnergyX’s global operations, advanced R&D vision, and its drive to reshape the future of building technologies.EnergyX, JMJ Group Holding and Hexa Tech have entered into a pact to establish a trio of industrial initiatives in the country, including an advanced production plant centred on free-form design-for-manufacturing-and-assembly (DFMA) and energy-optimisation technologies to boost the country’s high-value manufacturing.By putting Qatar at the centre of its worldwide operations, systems integrations, manufacturing, and R&D; he said it will expand local hiring, deepen collaborations with universities and research institutes, and broaden its intellectual-property portfolio from Doha — positioning Qatar as the origin point for technologies that enable energy-sovereign buildings and districts worldwide.Finding that buildings and construction account for over one-third of global final energy consumption (according to the International Energy Agency), he said "this places EnergyX at the front line of one of humanity’s most critical climate challenges — and positions Qatar as a global hub for the solutions needed to address it."EnergyX will build high-skill teams and collaborate with government, leading Qatari business groups, universities, and research institutes to accelerate technology transfer, specialised training, and workforce development tied directly to the factory and research centre, according to Park. 

South Korea's EnergyX, a global leader in end-to-end energy optimisation for buildings and infrastructure, has relocated its global command centre to Qatar as it plans to shift the international headquarters here.The company, which already has made Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) its home, is planning a robotic smart-factory in Qatar as well as a high profile plus-energy building in Qatar that achieves multiple top-tier certifications, as it aims to make the country the global hub from where it invents, manufactures, integrates, and manages its global fleet.An announcement in this regard was made at the Korea-Qatar AI (Artificial Intelligence) Forum hosted by the Korean Embassy in Qatar, KOTRA (Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency), and Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Qatar.The move formalises a re-architecture of the business with EnergyX consolidating command, engineering, and production into a single hub designed to compress product cycles and co-ordinate deployments from Doha to Asia, Europe, and beyond."Qatar isn’t a testing ground; it’s the centre of operations from which EnergyX will steer the next era of AI or artificial intelligence-defined, net-positive infrastructure," said founder and chief executive officer Sean Park, who along with core command team, relocated to Doha.The Middle East and North Africa chief executive officer and Global Chief Strategy Officer, Jean-Jacques Dandrieux has been based in Doha for the past two years.On the proposed smart robotic factory in Qatar; Park said a DFMA (Design for Manufacture and Assembly)-enabled line with autonomous handling and tightly instrumented quality gates will scale in deliberate phases, prioritising reliability and repeatability over headline throughput."The company’s establishment under the QFC and its ongoing engagement with national stakeholders provide the operating clarity needed to relocate the headquarters and centralise integrations, manufacturing, and service management, he said.By putting Qatar at the centre of its worldwide operations, systems integrations, manufacturing, and R&D; he said it will expand local hiring, deepen collaborations with universities and research institutes, and broaden its intellectual-property portfolio from Doha — positioning Qatar as the origin point for technologies that enable energy-sovereign buildings and districts worldwide."Qatar’s RDI agenda aligns with our deep-tech mandate: an R&D-led programme in AI-powered energy optimisation, geospatial analytics, and robotics-enabled, free-form DFMA manufacturing — so invention, prototyping, and production run on one clock in one place," according to Park.Highlighting that Qatar enables EnergyX to co-locate AI, software, hardware engineering, and manufacturing under a single command structure; he said that removes handoffs and lets the company co-ordinate global rollouts, reliability, and product evolution from a single operating rhythm.The Qatar base is structured to manufacture custom energy systems and ship them globally — with planned logistics via air and sea — and to manage worldwide deployments of EnergyX Zero from a single command centre, according to him.EnergyX will build high-skill teams and collaborate with government, leading Qatari business groups, universities, and research institutes to accelerate technology transfer, specialised training, and workforce development tied directly to the factory and research centre, according to Park.