Rabat, Morocco
Energy Efficiency Demonstration Building in Rabat
With the aim to introduce more advanced and sustainable building concepts to the Moroccan architectural landscape, the National School of Architecture (ENA) has set up an energy efficient demonstration building on its campus in Rabat. The building, which will feature the typical size of a common residential villa in the Rabat-Casablanca region i.e. 180m² living area, should not only serve as a demonstration and training platform for ENA’s students, but also animate the Moroccan construction sector to put more emphasis on energy efficient and bio climatic building concepts. While the current project focuses on climates of the Atlantic coast, it is planned that, in a future step, a concept study for similar buildings in the dry interior of the country will be carried out.
Project info
- Construction phase
- New construction
- Building type
- Single Family House (SFH)
- Detailed building type
- Single Family House (SFH) - detached
- Net floor area
- 180 m2
- Stories
- 1 story
- Original construction year of the building
- 2009
- Project contact
- Bensaid
- Contact email address
- bensaid@archi.ac.ma
Building Rating and Certifications systems
- Rating and certifications systems
- Not applicable
Building Envelope
External walls
- U-Value
- 0.262 W/(m²*K)
Roof
- U-Value
- 0.223 W/(m²*K)
Openings and windows
- U-Value glass
- 1.49 W/(m²*K)
Basement floor
- U-Value
- 0.922 W/(m²*K)
Technical Building Systems
Ventilation system
- Type of ventilation
- Description
- Air/water heat pump
Space cooling system
- Primary space cooling system
- Description
- Air/water heat pump
Water heater system
- Description
- solar collector/heat pump system
Shading devices
- Type of shading system installed
- Manual systems (e.g. roller shutters, folding shutters, external blinds)
- Description
- Overhang shading
Other technical building systems
- Description
- Thermal mass and night ventilation
Final Energy Demand
- Energy carrier (1)
- Electricity
- Annual heating demand
- 8 kWh/(m²*a)
- Annual cooling demand
- 25 kWh/(m²*a)
- Total specific final energy demand
- 33 kWh/(m²*a)
Financial Aspects
- Project construction cost
- 193000 EUR
