Beirut, Lebanon
Badaro 8 Building
Badaro 8 is a brand new residential building containing high-end apartments in Badaro. The building is spread over 13 floors with a total area of 332.7 m2/floor. The building is under construction and will include various energy efficient solutions in order to provide for its clients.
Project info
- Construction phase
- New construction
- Building type
- Multi Family House (MFH)
- Detailed building type
- Multi Family House / Apartment block - Large (> 1000m²) - detached
- Net floor area
- 4325 m2
- Stories
- 13 stories
- Construction type
- Concrete
- Original construction year of the building
- 2018
- Project contact
- AHTC/BETTA
- Contact email address
- ahtc.betta@gmail.com
Project team
- Developer(s)/owner(s)
- AHTC/BETTA
- Energy efficiency consultant(s)
- Metacs
Building Rating and Certifications systems
- Rating and certifications systems
- Not applicable
Building Envelope
External walls
- Description of construction
- 10 cm concrete block - air space - 15 cm concrete block. The total area of insulated walls is 2811.2 m2.
- U-Value
- 0.74 W/(m²*K)
Roof
- Roof type
- Flat roof
- Description of construction
- 10 cm concrete - 5 cm insulation
- U-Value
- 0.437 W/(m²*K)
Openings and windows
- Glazing type
- Double glazed
- Frame material / description
- Aluminium
- Overall u-value window
- 2 W/(m²*K)
- Description of construction
- The total area of double glazing is 675.5 m2.
Basement floor
- Description of construction
- 10 cm concrete - 14 cm hourdi blocks
- U-Value
- 1.995 W/(m²*K)
Additional thermal insulation materials
- Manufacturer(s) /products
- Kilzi & Co for insulation
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
- One outdoor unit with 18 indoor units for each flat are installed. According to LG simulation, the VRV system will save 43% of the cooling bill compared to the DX system.
- Manufacturer(s) / products
- LG
Water heater system
- Description
- 18 heat pumps systems are installed to generate hot water. The MIZAR 260 HS heat pump, which 260 litre storage tank, will be used. The heat pump will be connected to the boiler of each apartment for back-up.
- Manufacturer(s) / products
- Imat
Lighting system
- Primary lighting system
- LED (Light emitting diode lamps)
- Efficiency
- 100
- Description
- LED Lighting is the most efficient solution to be included in the new building. The implementation of the LED technology will reduce the peak load from 10.8 kW to 2.7 kW (reduction of 8.1 kW).
- Manufacturer(s) / products
- Barthelme, Jisco, Marceluce, ACB
Final Energy Demand
- Energy carrier (1)
- Electricity
- Energy carrier (2)
- Diesel
- Annual heating demand
- 4.06 kWh/(m²*a)
- Annual cooling demand
- 33.39 kWh/(m²*a)
- Annual lighting demand
- 26.8 kWh/(m²*a)
- Annual hot water demand
- 9.48 kWh/(m²*a)
- Total specific final energy demand
- 81.7 kWh/(m²*a)
Financial Aspects
- Estimated costs of energy efficiency and renewable energy measures
- 1241441 EUR
- Financing sources
- NEREEA Loan
- Financing/funding institution
- MEAB Bank
