Ariana, Tunisia
The Mediterranean Clinic
The "La Méditerranéenne de Santé" Company built the Mediterranean Clinic in La Soukra, Ariana in 2016. This Non-residential building comprises 5 floors and has in total a built-up area of 4535 m². The main measures to save energy are aimed at improving thermal and energy efficiency relating to architectural design and construction systems, ventilation systems, heating, cooling of premises and production and distribution systems of domestic hot water, lighting and electrical distribution systems, any other energy consuming system, as well as building management and operation systems. These measures resulted in an annual energy savings of electricity of around 255 MWh.
Project info
- Construction phase
- New construction
- Building type
- Non-residential building
- Detailed building type
- Hospital
- Net floor area
- 4535 m2
- Land plot size
- 2433 m2
- Stories
- 5 stories
- Construction type
- Mixed construction
- Original construction year of the building
- 2016
- Project contact
- MEDITERRANEENNE DE SANTE
- Contact email address
- contact@clinique-med.com
Project team
- Developer(s)/owner(s)
- La Méditerranéenne de Santé Company
- Architect(s)
- Ms. Nada Khmakhem & Ms. Ons Driss
- Energy efficiency consultant(s)
- Mr. Taher Nemer
- HVAC consultant(s)
- Mr. Taher Nemer
- Other project team partners
- Electricity consultant: Mr. Mohamed Amri
Building Rating and Certifications systems
- Rating and certifications systems
- Other
- Other certification
- The building has attained the Platinum level of the Tunisian écoBAT labelling standard.
Building Envelope
External walls
- Description of construction
- The external walls of the building are 35cm thick and insulated. The construction comprises the following layers: a 2.5cm exterior cement mortar layer, a 20cm 12-hole brick, 4cm Rockwool insulation layer, a 6.5cm 8-hole plate brick,1.5cm int. mortar
- U-Value
- 0.497 W/(m²*K)
Roof
- Roof type
- Flat roof
- Description of construction
- The building's roofs have a 19+6 hollow body structure with thermal insulation. Layers include: 2cm tiles, 3cm mortar, 0.4cm waterproofing, 4cm rock wool, 6cm armoured concrete, 19cm hollow body (hourdis), and 1.5cm mortar.
Openings and windows
- Glazing type
- Double glazed
- U-Value glass
- 1.5 W/(m²*K)
- Overall u-value window
- 1.9 W/(m²*K)
- Description of construction
- The bay windows are constructed with frames made from thermal break aluminium and low-emissivity double glazing, with a thickness of 6/6/6 mm.
Basement floor
- U-Value
- 2.192 W/(m²*K)
Technical Building Systems
Ventilation system
- Type of ventilation
- Mechanical ventilation system with heat recovery
Space cooling system
- Primary space cooling system
- Centralised chiller │Usually a central system located in the basement
- Efficiency
- 3.26
- Secondary space cooling system
- Mounted single-split or window air conditioner│Usually a visible smaller system mounted outside the wall or above the window just supplying one room
- Description
- Split VRV systems.
Space heating system
- Primary Space heating system
- Gas condensing
Water heater system
- Primary water heater system
- Dedicated gas heater (dedicated = just hot water generation)
- Secondary water heater system
- Solar Thermal collector on the roof
- Description
- The solar water heater system has a 10 m² collector.
Lighting system
- Primary lighting system
- LED (Light emitting diode lamps)
- Efficiency
- 100
Shading devices
- Type of shading system installed
- Static (fix) shading systems as part of the building architecture (e.g. Maschrabiyya, porch roofs, pergolas)
Final Energy Demand
- Energy carrier (1)
- Electricity
- Energy carrier (2)
- Gas a
- Total specific final energy demand
- 150 kWh/(m²*a)
