Beirut, Lebanon
Antwork Elcire Building
Antwork Elcire Building was formerly an abandoned building, which was renovated into a new co-working facility. Antwork provides workspaces formed by a technology-enabled ecosystem that cultivates innovation, collaboration and productivity. The renovation of the building includes a PV-diesel system to generate electricity. Moreover, the lighting of the entire facility has replaced by LED. The use of LED will reduce the peak load by 42.6 kW. The use of VRF system for space cooling saves 14789 kWh per year
Project info
- Construction phase
- Refurbishment
- Building type
- Non-residential building
- Detailed building type
- Office
- Net floor area
- 990.5 m2
- Stories
- 5 stories
- Original construction year of the building
- Unknown
- Project contact
- Zina Dajani
- Contact email address
- zina@antwork.com
Project team
- Energy efficiency consultant(s)
- Metacs
Building Rating and Certifications systems
- Rating and certifications systems
- Not applicable
Building Envelope
External walls
- Description of construction
- NA
Roof
- Roof type
- Flat roof
- Description of construction
- NA
Openings and windows
- Glazing type
- Single glazed
- Frame material / description
- NA
- Description of construction
- NA
Basement floor
- Description of construction
- NA
Technical Building Systems
Space cooling system
- Primary space cooling system
- Centralised multi-split system│Consisting of one outdoor unit (e.g. located on the rooftop) supplying several indoor units
- Description
- The Elcire building will be mounted with a VRF system of 324 kW. The average value of ESEER for the Hitachi VRF unit is 6.631. The use of VRF system will achieve savings of 14789 kWh per year.
- Manufacturer(s) / products
- Hitachi
Lighting system
- Primary lighting system
- LED (Light emitting diode lamps)
- Efficiency
- 100
- Description
- The facility will be equipped with LED light fixtures on the inside and outside. The use of LED will reduce the peak load by 42.6 kW and create savings of 26770 $/year.
- Manufacturer(s) / products
- Samsung
Photovoltaics
- Capacity
- 50 kWp
- Total module area
- 149 m²
- Description
- A hybrid PV-diesel system is installed. When the EDL grid is available, the system will act as an on-grid system. While on the generator, the PV will operate with the generator and the energy will be controlled by PV-diesel controller.
- Manufacturer(s) / products
- Exiom Solutions (Panel) - Pure Sine (Inverter)
Final Energy Demand
- Energy carrier (1)
- Electricity
- Energy carrier (2)
- Diesel
- Total specific final energy demand
- 274.6 kWh/(m²*a)
Financial Aspects
- Estimated costs of energy efficiency and renewable energy measures
- 502317.86 EUR
- Financing sources
- NEEREA Loan
- Financing/funding institution
- Al-Mawarid Bank
