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The university accommodates 18,000 students across eight major faculties, supported by comprehensive roads and infrastructure. The Lebanese Government aimed to develop a modern campus within a limited site, ensuring efficient operation with essential facilities like a library, administration, cafeteria, car park, and sports center—maximizing underground space use. The project also includes providing adequate infrastructure to fully service the new campus.
Feasibility Study
Master Planning
Concept & detailed design for architecture & engineering trades.
Programming Studies (Pre-Concept To Tender Documents)
Architect Of Record
Construction Supervision
Operation & Maintenance
Laceco responded to the above objectives by:
Designing a consistent urban framework that nevertheless provided a diversity in the individual architectural character of buildings.
Curating a seamless pedestrian experience in a site that had a challenging topography and was exposed to dominant winds.
Anchoring the site along three platforms linked to each other by a continuous game of terraces, stairs, suspended bridges and esplanades that gently slope down the length of the development.
Conducting value engineering and cost optimization studies to preserve economic viability of the development.
Laceco responded to the above objectives by:
Integrating roads network in a high pedestrian occupancy area while respecting the pedestrian safety requirements.
Designing two independent networks: one for sewage water of 1.8km and the other for rain water of 2.5km collecting the wastewater from the buildings at lowest level floor, and conveying them by gravity to the discharge points.
Designing the domestic and fire network, including main water reservoir and pumping stations, and around 4km piping with all corresponding appurtenances.
Designing the irrigation system that is managed and operated through a centralized automated system, consisting of main HDPE lines 2.5km and branching lateral lines of 25km.
Designing medium/low voltage distribution networks, including the related street and landscape lighting.
Designing telephone/low current/CCTV distribution networks including inspection hand-holes and duct-banks.
Interesting facts:
Designing around 9m deep gravity manholes crossing with major utilities.
Deficit in Kadisha Electricity Company’s capacity, which was covered by generators set, until the MV source capacity is upgraded.
