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UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG (MAISON DES SCIENCES HUMAINES)

Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, Europe

Sector Education
Client Le Fonds Belval, 6, Avenue des Hauts Fourneaux, 4362 Esch-sur-Alzette, LU
Architect Tatiana Fabeck Architectes (LU) & Abscis Architecten (BE) 1, Rue du Château, 8385 Koerich, LU
Intervention Construction
Scope Study and following up MEP
GFA 24,000 m2
Project status completed
Study November 2008 - April 2010
Execution December 2010 - June 2014

Sustainable Features

reuse rainwater
reuse rainwater
water management
water management
natural ventilation
natural ventilation
green roof
green roof
heat recovery
heat recovery
passive cooling
passive cooling
glazing
glazing

Total technical installations cost: € 9.665.000,00 VAT excluded

Total construction cost: € 41.640.000,00 VAT excluded

K Level / Energy class : 23

 

This new  Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Arts & Sciences, Education CEPS/ Instead (Centre for Population, Poverty and Policy socio-economic) building  for the University of Luxembourg includes conference rooms, offices, a library and a media library.
The building has two main functions, namely special education and research in the field of social sciences and humanities. Teaching activities are limited to research seminars for master students. They will take place in seminar rooms and rooms for practical work. Research activities aim to analyze major and support human society in its development. Part of the research is carried out in offices while part takes place in special laboratories such as multimedia laboratories or laboratories observation, cognition and phonetics. The building will have a capacity of 850 jobs. A bookstore and a cafe open to the public

The building is equipped with LTH (low temperature heating) radiators, climate beams in the auditorium that are connected to a local thermal net for cooling and heating. The meeting rooms are equipped with indirect adiabatic cooling. NO-Break Emergency generators safeguards the redundant data center located at the  underground levels.
Other sustainable features such as  extensive insulation, triple glazing, controlled sunscreen shutters and presence detector lighting all assist  in reducing operational energy costs.