Dbayeh , Lebanon
Marina Vistas
This project consists of the residential apartment buildings in the Dbayeh waterfront in Beirut with the BREEAM Good certification. The building integrates enhanced insulation techniques within its configuration in addition to the installation of advanced technologies for space cooling and heating.
Project info
- Construction phase
- New construction
- Building type
- Multi Family House (MFH)
- Detailed building type
- Multi Family House / Apartment block - Large (> 1000m²) - attached
- Net floor area
- 18923 m2
- Land plot size
- 6873 m2
- Stories
- 7 stories
- Construction type
- Concrete
- Original construction year of the building
- 2019
- Project contact
- Dany Chaccour
- Contact email address
- Dany.Chaccour@maf.ae
Project team
- Developer(s)/owner(s)
- Waterfront City SAL
- Architect(s)
- ERGA
- Construction contractor(s)
- AR Hourie
- Energy efficiency consultant(s)
- EcoConsulting
- HVAC consultant(s)
- Pierre Damous & Partners
- Building services
- Pierre Damous & Partners
Building Rating and Certifications systems
- Rating and certifications systems
- BREEAM
Building Envelope
External walls
- Description of construction
- 1) 30mm stone cladding 2) 13mm Plaster 3) 150mm Masonry 4) 50mm Extruded polystyrene 5) 100mm Masonry 6) 13mm Plaster
- U-Value
- 0.4 W/(m²*K)
Roof
- Roof type
- Flat roof
- Description of construction
- 1) 40mm Ceramic Tiles 2) 50mm Mortar 3) 50mm Extruded polystyrene 40kg/m3 4) 300mm Concrete roof/floor slab 5) 13mm Plasterboard (ceiling)
- U-Value
- 0.42 W/(m²*K)
Openings and windows
- Glazing type
- Double glazed
- U-Value glass
- 2.74 W/(m²*K)
- U-Value frame
- 2.7 W/(m²*K)
- Overall u-value window
- 2.7 W/(m²*K)
- Description of construction
- 6mm Clear Glass / 12mm Air / 6mm Clear Glass
Basement floor
- Description of construction
- NA
Technical Building Systems
Ventilation system
- Type of ventilation
- Free ventilation (windows)
Space cooling system
- Primary space cooling system
- Centralised chiller │Usually a central system located in the basement
- Description
- VRV
Space heating system
- Primary Space heating system
- Gas condensing
- Description
- High efficiency gas boilers
- Secondary Space heating system
- Air-conditioning system (reversible for heating; air-air heat pump)
- Description
- VRV
Water heater system
- Primary water heater system
- Combi system (system provides space heat & hot water)
Lighting system
- Primary lighting system
- LED (Light emitting diode lamps)
- Efficiency
- 100
Final Energy Demand
- Energy carrier (1)
- Electricity
- Energy carrier (2)
- Gas a
- Annual heating demand
- 28.21 kWh/(m²*a)
- Annual cooling demand
- 9.41 kWh/(m²*a)
- Annual lighting demand
- 9.6 kWh/(m²*a)
- Total specific final energy demand
- 64.46 kWh/(m²*a)
