Damascus, Syria
New Youth Residential Complex
The chosen block for the project has five floors; each floor contains six apartments. The total area of each flat is around 80 m² and the overall area of each floor is around 480 m². The building is 20m high. Part of the building footprint has a basement.
Project info
- Construction phase
- New construction
- Building type
- Multi Family House (MFH)
- Detailed building type
- Multi Family House (MFH) - Small (≤ 1000m²) - detached
- Net floor area
- 480 m2
- Land plot size
- 12600 m2
- Stories
- 5 stories
- Construction type
- Mixed construction
- Original construction year of the building
- 2006
- Project contact
- Safwan
- Contact email address
- tech-studies-co@mail.sy
Building Rating and Certifications systems
- Rating and certifications systems
- Not applicable
Building Envelope
External walls
- Description of construction
- Insulation
- U-Value
- 0.53 W/(m²*K)
Roof
- Roof type
- Flat roof
- Description of construction
- Insulation
- U-Value
- 0.41 W/(m²*K)
Openings and windows
- Glazing type
- Double glazed
- U-Value glass
- 3.2 W/(m²*K)
- U-Value frame
- 3.2 W/(m²*K)
Technical Building Systems
Ventilation system
- Type of ventilation
- Description
- Solar thermal / 75% through conventional fuel system
Space heating system
- Primary Space heating system
- Gas non-condensing
- Description
- Floor heating system: gas boiler as the essential source of heat (covering 77% of the demand) which is supported by solar energy (23%)
Water heater system
- Primary water heater system
- Solar Thermal collector on the roof
- Description
- A central domestic hot water system is installed, with an solar energy system covering 83% of the demand and a gas boiler as a back-up system (17%).
Lighting system
- Primary lighting system
- Description
- Energy Efficiency lighting
Shading devices
- Type of shading system installed
- Static (fix) shading systems as part of the building architecture (e.g. Maschrabiyya, porch roofs, pergolas)
- Description
- Shading
Other technical building systems
- Description
- "solar chimney and evaporative cooling solar floor heating & hot water"
Final Energy Demand
- Energy carrier (1)
- Gas a
- Energy carrier (2)
- Electricity
- Annual heating demand
- 83 kWh/(m²*a)
- Annual lighting demand
- 9 kWh/(m²*a)
- Annual hot water demand
- 8 kWh/(m²*a)
- Total specific final energy demand
- 101 kWh/(m²*a)
Primary Energy Demand & Emissions
- Primary energy demand
- 413043 kWh/(m²*a)
