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.
Description
The pilot project is situated in the New Youth Residential Complex in the Kudsia Suburb on the outskirts of Damascus. The neighbourhood consists of 18 residential islands with 12,600 flats.
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 final energy demand
- 101 kWh/(m²*a)
Primary Energy Demand & Emissions
- Primary energy demand
- 413043 kWh/(m²*a)
