Amman, Jordan
King Hussein Business Park "KHBP" - Building No. Four
The King Hussein Business Park (KHBP) is strategically located adjacent to one of Amman’s busiest highways, offering easy access to downtown and other cities in the region. Situated in the heart of the business park, Building Four houses the management offices of KHBP as well as both local and international companies. These range from a local, family-owned insurance company to Arabia Weather, and Oracle. Designed to offer world-class amenities and an amenable business environment, KHBP integrates open, green space with mixed-use development that includes restaurant and retail space. The business complex offers office spaces that can employ over 4,000 people and is entirely walkable, with a bicycle and shuttle bus provided for faster transportation.
Project info
- Construction phase
- Refurbishment
- Building type
- Non-residential building
- Detailed building type
- Office
- Net floor area
- 3630 m2
- Stories
- 4 stories
- Construction type
- Concrete
- Original construction year of the building
- Unknown
- Project contact
- Mr. Ayman Maayah
- Contact email address
- amaayah@businesspark-jo.com
Project team
- Developer(s)/owner(s)
- Business Park Company
- Architect(s)
- Yuksel Holding
- Construction contractor(s)
- Yuksel Holding
- Energy efficiency consultant(s)
- Adaa, Sustainable Development Consultants & ETA max
Building Rating and Certifications systems
- Rating and certifications systems
- EDGE
- Other certification
- EDGE certification
Building Envelope
External walls
- Description of construction
- The structure of the building is composite reinforced concrete shear walls, with external thermal insulation (60 mm Extruded Polystyrene) faced with mechanically fixed white color local stone. Window to Wall Ratio (WWE) is 17.8.
- U-Value
- 0.39 W/(m²*K)
Roof
- Roof type
- Flat roof
- Description of construction
- N/A
Openings and windows
- Glazing type
- Double glazed
- Overall u-value window
- 2.8 W/(m²*K)
Basement floor
- Description of construction
- N/A
Technical Building Systems
Ventilation system
- Type of ventilation
- Mechanical ventilation system without heat recovery
Space cooling system
- Primary space cooling system
- District heating and cooling system
- Description
- The KHBP campus has a district heating and cooling system that provides all buildings with required chilled and hot water to cover their cooling and heating loads. Building (4) is supplied with four pipes system, supply, and return for chilled water, and supply and return for hot water. The HVAC system inside the building consists of an air handling unit that conditions the fresh air supplied to the offices. It has air filters, heating coil, and cooling coil for pre-heating and pre-cooling the fresh air before supplying it to the offices. Fan coil units in the offices provided with a three-speed fan and controlled thermostat in each office provide control of temperatures and fan speeds in each office. Additional VRF systems units were installed recently in some offices where needed.
Space heating system
- Primary Space heating system
- District heating
- Description
- The KHBP campus has a district heating and cooling system that provides all buildings with required chilled and hot water to cover their cooling and heating loads. Building (4) is supplied with four pipes system, supply, and return for chilled water, and supply and return for hot water. The HVAC system inside the building consists of air handling unit that conditions the fresh air supplied to the offices. It has air filters, heating coil, and cooling coil for pre-heating and pre-cooling the fresh air before supplying it to the offices. Fan coil units in the offices provided with a three-speed fan and controlled thermostat in each office provide control of temperatures and fan speeds in each office. Additional VRF systems units were installed recently in some offices where needed.
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
Shading devices
- Type of shading system installed
- Static (fix) shading systems as part of the building architecture (e.g. Maschrabiyya, porch roofs, pergolas)
Final Energy Demand
- Total specific final energy demand
- N/A kWh/(m²*a)
Primary Energy Demand & Emissions
- Primary energy demand
- 63.5 kWh/(m²*a)
- CO2 emissions
- 34.4 kg/(m²*a)
