New Cairo, Egypt
AUC Faculty Housing Plot 3
The AUC Faculty House at Plot 3 is a multi-story residential housing complex consisting of four floors, a basement, and an accessible green roof. The housing complex consists of 40 apartment units, a reception area/lobby and shared common services. AUC has initiated a LEED Silver certification.
The AUC Faculty Housing Plot 3 has features including a green roof, solar heating, energy-efficient doors and windows, motion sensors, submeters, and a landscape rich with low-impact, native plants.
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
- 14.264 m2
- Stories
- 5 stories
- Construction type
- Mixed construction
- Original construction year of the building
- 2012
- Project contact
- Eng. Yasmine Mansour Mahmoud
- Contact email address
- y.mansour@aucegypt.edu
Project team
- Developer(s)/owner(s)
- The American University in Cairo
- Architect(s)
- EAG Egyptian Architect Group - Khaled Zakaria El Adli
- Construction contractor(s)
- NAP Contractors, Al Thoraia and El Basel for Contracting
- Other project team partners
- Dr. Ali Abdel Rahaman - Civil and architecture consultant
Building Rating and Certifications systems
- Rating and certifications systems
- Not applicable
Building Envelope
External walls
- Description of construction
- The structure is made of a typical reinforced concrete column and slab system. Both interior and exterior walls use typical brick and cement mortar.
Roof
- Roof type
- Flat roof
- Description of construction
- Green roof offsets some of the carbon emissions of the building. There is an automatic irrigation and drainage system to maintain the grass and plants. For sustainable pest control, a sprayer is used for fumigating the green roof as needed.
Openings and windows
- Glazing type
- Double glazed
- U-Value glass
- 2.8 W/(m²*K)
- Frame material / description
- Sliding windows with sashes that can be operated by sliding left or right within a single frame. Vinyl frames are energy efficient.
- Overall u-value window
- 2.8 W/(m²*K)
Basement floor
- Description of construction
- N/A
Technical Building Systems
Ventilation system
- Type of ventilation
- Free ventilation (windows)
- Description
- The ventilation system equipment and associated components are maintained in accordance with the plan developed for EA prerequisite Energy Efficiency Best Management Practices.
Space cooling system
- Primary 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
Water heater system
- Primary water heater system
- Solar Thermal collector on the roof
- Description
- The solar water heaters are adjusted semi-annually; Before the winter, the temperature is adjusted to be between 45 - 50 degrees Celsius and Before the summer, the temperature is adjusted to be between 35-38 degrees Celsius.
Lighting system
- Primary lighting system
- LED (Light emitting diode lamps)
- Efficiency
- 100
- Description
- Corridors and stairs have motion sensors. Landscape lighting have automatic sensors that turn on whenever it is dark according to winter and summer timings.
Shading devices
- Type of shading system installed
- Manual systems (e.g. roller shutters, folding shutters, external blinds)
- Description
- Maschrabiyya aluminum outdoor on the front building, canvas blinds in the apartments, folding shutters in the entrance, pergola on the roof.
Photovoltaics
- Manufacturer(s) / products
- Schneider Electric
Final Energy Demand
- Energy carrier (1)
- Electricity
- Annual heating demand
- 166.8 kWh/(m²*a)
- Annual cooling demand
- 108.38 kWh/(m²*a)
- Annual lighting demand
- 99.069 kWh/(m²*a)
- Annual hot water demand
- 55.8 kWh/(m²*a)
- Total specific final energy demand
- 262.859 kWh/(m²*a)
Primary Energy Demand & Emissions
- Primary energy demand
- 157680.00 kWh/(m²*a)
- CO2 emissions
- 94134.96 kg/(m²*a)
- CO2e emissions
- 44321.28 kg/(m²*a)
Financial Aspects
- Financing sources
- Own
