Bqatouta, Lebanon
Breidi Wooden House
This project is a new single wood frame house located in Baqtouta, Kesrwan area. In addition to other energy efficiency measures, the house is essentially made from wood combined with insulation material to reduce energy consumption.
Project info
- Construction phase
- New construction
- Building type
- Single Family House (SFH)
- Detailed building type
- Single Family House (SFH) - detached
- Net floor area
- 140 m2
- Stories
- 2 stories
- Construction type
- Wood Frame
- Original construction year of the building
- Unknown
- Project contact
- Milad Breidy
- Contact email address
- milad_breidy@hotmail.com
Project team
- Developer(s)/owner(s)
- Milad Breidy
- Energy efficiency consultant(s)
- Metacs
- Other project team partners
- Phoenix Energy
Building Rating and Certifications systems
- Rating and certifications systems
- Not applicable
Building Envelope
External walls
- Description of construction
- 17 cm wood colomuns - 16 cm thick wood fiber insulation - 5 cm technical void - 2 cm gypsum board
- U-Value
- 0.251 W/(m²*K)
Roof
- Roof type
- Double Pitch Roof
- Description of construction
- red pine - 10 cm thick wood fiber insulation - 2.5 ventilation void - 2.5 wood slab
- U-Value
- 0.29 W/(m²*K)
Openings and windows
- Glazing type
- Double glazed
- U-Value glass
- 2.5 W/(m²*K)
- G-Value glass
- 0.8
- Frame material / description
- Wood
- U-Value frame
- 2.5 W/(m²*K)
- Overall u-value window
- 2.134 W/(m²*K)
- Description of construction
- Double glazed windows without thermal breaker
Basement floor
- Description of construction
- 30 cm heavy weight concrete
- U-Value
- 4.05 W/(m²*K)
Additional thermal insulation materials
- Manufacturer(s) /products
- Doerken - Chronospan - knauf -Etiver
Technical Building Systems
Space heating system
- Primary Space heating system
- Heat Pump (air-water)
Water heater system
- Primary water heater system
- Combi system (system provides space heat & hot water)
- Description
- A heat pump with a 260 litre storage tank will be installed. The heat pump will supply hot water to the wooden house for eight months of the year. During winter back-up energy will be provided by an additional heat exchanger connected to the boiler.
- Manufacturer(s) / products
- Mizar 260 HS
Lighting system
- Primary lighting system
- LED (Light emitting diode lamps)
- Efficiency
- 100
Final Energy Demand
- Energy carrier (1)
- Electricity
- Energy carrier (2)
- Diesel
- Annual heating demand
- 19.9 kWh/(m²*a)
- Annual lighting demand
- 1.92 kWh/(m²*a)
- Annual hot water demand
- 5.86 kWh/(m²*a)
- Total specific final energy demand
- 35.43 kWh/(m²*a)
Financial Aspects
- Estimated costs of energy efficiency and renewable energy measures
- 164000 EUR
- Financing sources
- NEEREA Loan
- Financing/funding institution
- IBL Bank
