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Located on Business Bay road, developed by Eagle Wing & owned by Avantime Limited, the 4-star Revier Hotel consists of a basement floor with pump room, GF, two podium floors, typical Floors from 3rd to 18th and a Roof Floor. The back side offers a view to the district park and podium level activities. Hotel rooms are screened with louvers which reflect thermal gain from incident sunrays integrating light control into the building envelope.
The 4-star hotel (B+G+2P+16F+R) has a built-up area of 2.29 million sq. ft. Through detailed engineering, Team Consistent ended up reducing power requirements by 1250 kW i.e. 40%.
Design Challenges and Solutions
The lack of operator guidelines during the design stage meant that Team Consistent had to design the project to establish DM and DTCM requirements.
The plot was originally allocated as a residential building in the master plan, but converted to a hotel at a later date without changing the utility allocation. The air-conditioning is provided in the area with a district cooling plant, hence, allocated power by master developer was only 1775 kW to cater all client requirements. The connected load is only 8.2 W/sq. ft. against the standard norms of 12-14 W/sq. ft. considering the district cooling system.
The height of the typical floor was changed from 3.6 m to 3.4 m (25 floors). Hence, the design needed to accommodate all services with lower heights as well as distribute the available allocation of services to the additional rooms. In order to accommodate the services, a minimalistic approach was adopted for their design. All aspects related to power consumption were scrutinized at concept stage, and the reports shared with the owners for approval.