Beirut, Lebanon
IC Preschool and Middle School
Preschool and Middle School building, second LEED Gold certified project as part of the International College campus in Beirut. The new facilities include water-saving fixtures and water-efficient landscaping, materials sourced locally or regionally, and enhanced energy-efficient thermal comfort systems amongst others, integrated into a very dense residential, and commercial urban environment of Beirut. The building complex also houses the central heating, cooling and power generating plants for the College.
Project info
- Construction phase
- New construction
- Building type
- Non-residential building
- Detailed building type
- Education
- Net floor area
- 9066 m2
- Land plot size
- 3980 m2
- Stories
- 5 stories
- Construction type
- Concrete
- Original construction year of the building
- 2018
- Project contact
- Youssef Abi Abdallah
- Contact email address
- yabiabdallah@ic.edu.lb
Project team
- Developer(s)/owner(s)
- International College
- Architect(s)
- Flansburgh Architects, Rachid Karam Architects
- Construction contractor(s)
- Mouawad-Edde S.A.R.L.
- Energy efficiency consultant(s)
- EcoConsulting
- Other project team partners
- DG Jones
Building Rating and Certifications systems
- Rating and certifications systems
- LEED
Building Envelope
External walls
- Description of construction
- Concrete blockwork wall
- U-Value
- 1.39 W/(m²*K)
Roof
- Roof type
- Flat roof
- Description of construction
- Insulated Roof (Cast Concrete & Polystyrene Insulation)
- U-Value
- 0.4 W/(m²*K)
Openings and windows
- Glazing type
- Double glazed
- U-Value glass
- 2.1 W/(m²*K)
- G-Value glass
- 0.571
- Overall u-value window
- 2.18 W/(m²*K)
- Description of construction
- 4-12-4 double glazing low-e coated
Basement floor
- Description of construction
- Concrete slab with no insulation
- U-Value
- 4.25 W/(m²*K)
Technical Building Systems
Ventilation system
- Type of ventilation
- Mechanical ventilation system with heat recovery
- Description
- Air-to-air wheel heat exchanger to recover heat from extract air
Space cooling system
- Primary space cooling system
- Centralised chiller │Usually a central system located in the basement
- Description
- VAV system with chilled water from the campus district system
- 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
- DX units for electric rooms and driver's lounge
Space heating system
- Primary Space heating system
- District heating
- Description
- Hot water pipes from the main boiler
Water heater system
- Primary water heater system
- Dedicated electric heater (dedicated = just hot water generation)
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)
- Description
- Fins
Final Energy Demand
- Energy carrier (1)
- Electricity
- Energy carrier (2)
- District Heat
- Annual heating demand
- 1.43 kWh/(m²*a)
- Annual cooling demand
- 124.13 kWh/(m²*a)
- Annual lighting demand
- 29.12 kWh/(m²*a)
- Annual hot water demand
- 0.47 kWh/(m²*a)
- Total specific final energy demand
- 238.22 kWh/(m²*a)
Financial Aspects
- Project construction cost
- 18190000 EUR
- Certification costs
- 6756 EUR
