Beirut , Lebanon
ABC Verdun
ABC Verdun is a mall development in Beirut that obtained the LEED Certified rating in 2018. The project is a large shopping mall with a unique design that features semi-open circulation spaces and many green landscaped areas to connect the inside of the mall with the outside. The building implements a modern mechanical ventilation system without heat recovery, centralised chillers, and variable speed compressors.
Project info
- Construction phase
- New construction
- Building type
- Non-residential building
- Detailed building type
- Retail / Trade
- Net floor area
- 76900 m2
- Land plot size
- 18158 m2
- Stories
- 10 stories
- Construction type
- Concrete
- Original construction year of the building
- 2017
- Project contact
- Baschir Muhanna
- Contact email address
- bmuhanna@abc.com.lb
Project team
- Developer(s)/owner(s)
- Verdun Mall SAL
- Architect(s)
- Callison/ Khatib & Alami
- Construction contractor(s)
- MAN Entreprise
- Energy efficiency consultant(s)
- EcoConsulting
- HVAC consultant(s)
- Khatib & Alami
- Building services
- Khatib & Alami
Building Rating and Certifications systems
- Rating and certifications systems
- LEED
Building Envelope
External walls
- Description of construction
- Concrete hollow block with stone cladding
- U-Value
- 2.08 W/(m²*K)
Roof
- Roof type
- Flat roof
- Description of construction
- Concrete slab with extruded polystyrene insulation
- U-Value
- 0.579 W/(m²*K)
Openings and windows
- Glazing type
- Double glazed
- U-Value glass
- 1.31 W/(m²*K)
- G-Value glass
- 0.279
- Overall u-value window
- 1.3 W/(m²*K)
- Description of construction
- Double glazed external shopfront and curtain wall
Basement floor
- Description of construction
- Concrete slab with no insulation
Technical Building Systems
Ventilation system
- Type of ventilation
- Mechanical ventilation system without heat recovery
- Description
- Fan coil + partial natural ventilation in circulation spaces
Space cooling system
- Primary space cooling system
- Centralised chiller │Usually a central system located in the basement
- Description
- Air cooled screw chiller with variable speed compressor and primary/secondary pumps
- Secondary space cooling system
- Centralised chiller │Usually a central system located in the basement
- Description
- Underfloor cooling in mall circulation areas
Space heating system
- Primary Space heating system
- Fixed Electric Space Heaters (e.g. electric convectors or radiators, electric underfloor heating etc.)
- Description
- Fancoil system heated by electric resistance in all tenant spaces
- Secondary Space heating system
- Oil non-condensing
- Description
- Underfloor heating by diesel boiler in mall circulation areas
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
- Description
- with BMS control
Photovoltaics
- Capacity
- 51.84 kWp
- Total module area
- 324 m²
- Description
- 72.6MWh production per year
Final Energy Demand
- Energy carrier (1)
- Electricity
- Energy carrier (2)
- Diesel
- Annual heating demand
- 3.55 kWh/(m²*a)
- Annual cooling demand
- 51.31 kWh/(m²*a)
- Annual lighting demand
- 80.78 kWh/(m²*a)
- Annual hot water demand
- 3.89 kWh/(m²*a)
- Total specific final energy demand
- 270.58 kWh/(m²*a)
Financial Aspects
- Project construction cost
- 175000000 EUR
- Certification costs
- 35463 EUR
- Financing sources
- Own + loan
- Financing/funding institution
- NEEREA/two local banks
