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Sama Beirut, the highest tower in Lebanon will constitute a milestone in the heart of the capital. Situated in the posh part of Ashrafieh, Sama Beirut’s neighborhood has everything to offer. Mere minutes away from the Beirut Central District, the Sea Front, the fashionable ABC Mall, and just a few minutes away from Beirut International Airport, the Sodeco area possesses a charm and cachet that is hard to come by. Rising 256m above sea level and 193m from ground floor, Lebanon’s tallest tower stands 50 stories high, creating a majestic presence on Beirut’s landscape. The outcomes of this exceptional landmark are smartly designed glass apartments and offices with open windows to the world. Its owners will enjoy stunning views of the sea and the mountains, in addition to the wonderful scenery of the city's teeming life.
INTRODUCTION TO SAMA BEIRUT
The idea of creating a tower came from the desire to create a trend and a landmark in the heart of Beirut; using the skies and developing a tower is way nicer than using all the land and making a “concrete jungle” with 6 squeezed blocks; Sama Beirut occupies 5,220m² of land; the center of the plot encloses the tower implemented on only 1,050m² footprint, surrounded by 4,000m² of landscaped areas. Indeed, only 20% of the land will be built. The Tower structure is concrete with specially imported reinforcement steel. It embraces six technical floors which are acoustically insulated from their surrounding floors. Each of the technical floors serves the floors above or beneath it. All was taken into consideration by the architects, such as traffic problems, to which a part of the project’s land will be used in order to enlarge the roads all around for traffic purposes.
THE TOWER CONCEPT
34TH FLOOR FROM SAMA BEIRUT
Sama Beirut enfolds Retail, Offices and Apartments: The Ground Floor encloses only 6 boutiques scattered on the peripheries of the land, independent and linked to the tower at the same time. The architectural design of these 6 units was conceived to be in complete harmony with the tower’s glass facade.
THE TOWER PROGRAM
6 HIGH‐END TRENDY BOUTIQUES
The 2nd to the 6th floors will be reserved for rental. The 7th to the 13th floors are for sale. At present, 10th to 13th floors are on the market, including 6 Offices per Floor:
Offices areas are flexible, with the possibility of merging more than 2 offices together to cater clients’ need for larger spaces reaching 800m². The ceiling height is 3.35m from finish to concrete.
OFFICES FLOORS EXTENDING FROM THE 2ND TO THE 13TH
117m²210m²142m²150m²201m²162m²
14TH TO THE 19TH FLOOR (3 APARTMENTS PER FLOOR)
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21ST & 22ND FLOORS (2 APARTMENTS PER FLOOR)
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23RD TO 29TH FLOORS (3 APARTMENTS PER FLOOR)
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31ST TO 37TH FLOORS (3 APARTMENTS PER FLOOR)
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38TH & 39TH FLOORS (2 APARTMENTS PER FLOOR)
APARTMENTS EXTENDING FROM THE 14TH TO THE 50TH FLOOR
373m²296m²379m²
494m²476m²
280m²395m²282m²
306m²253m²309m²
526m²342m²
41ST UP TO THE 51ST…
The rest of the tower is dedicated to special type of homes having an impressive view over Lebanon with the top of Sama Beirut reserved for a lavish Penthouse.
SECTION
• 7 basements provide ample parking spaces to accommodate owners, with a total capacity of 700 cars welcoming as well the visitors
• Storage Rooms • 4,000m² of landscaped areas • A 1000m² Club Spa equipped with a state‐of‐the‐art workout area, an 11x5m
hydrotherapy pool, treatment rooms and innovative water features • A 230m² multi‐purpose room with 4.3m height having an access to the garden • A convenient 240m² common drivers’ room that comprises a waiting area with a
kitchenette, toilets, and showers
AMENITIES
The project has two independent entrances, one from Elias Sarkis Avenue that will serve the apartments and the other one from Petro Trad Street that will serve the floors of offices. Every entrance has its own private ramp, drop off area, lobby, staircase and elevators, designed carefully to avoid any potential disturbance.
Residential Entrance
Commercial Entrance
THE ENTRANCES
The residential lobby is 210m²; with 4.5m height and 6 high‐speed exclusive elevators ensuring the privacy for Sama Beirut’s residents.
The offices lobby is 80m²; 5m height from finish to concrete; 3 high‐speed exclusive elevators will serve the offices.
The Lobbies
Sama Beirut glass, from the French multinational leader Saint‐Gobain, is neutral to blue color, varying from transparency to graduations of shaded glass. The high performance solar control glass Cool‐Lite ® range was selected for the project, based on its ability to provide energy saving and improved visual comfort.
At the same time, the glass offers a high level of sound insulation. It is heat strengthened and/or laminated which, combined with a structural sealant, ensures a high level of safety for occupants. The technical design used, while known and implemented across the world in high rise buildings, is a first in Lebanon. It has the main objective of enhancing the stability of the solid reinforced core wall while also securing the comfort of occupants so that they will not feel any movement of the building as a result of any seismic or wind load. For Sama Beirut, the best type of steel recommended by American building codes for anti‐seismic conceptual systems has been specifically imported. Likewise the type of cement has been selected for its very high strength and was tested in Dubai and London. Sama Beirut’s structure can withstand the equivalent of an earthquake of up to 7 degrees on the Richter scale.
Sama Beirut was designed according to the strict US norms (NFPA; the reference in high‐rise buildings. Through the use of detectors, alarms, sprinklers, fire‐rated doors, fire reserve tanks, etc… all building occupants will be able to safely escape from any fire hazard. Moreover, all elevators landing doors are two hours fire‐rated. Therefore, upon receiving a signal from the fire detector, the elevators return to the main lobby, let passengers out, and remain there idle with the door open. The building is also equipped with a firefighter elevator serving all floors as well as an evacuation elevator to be used by the firefighters.
THE GLASS / FACADE
THE SEISMIC SYSTEM
FIRE FIGHTING SYSTEM
Sama Beirut has chosen the pioneer in energy saving solutions for elevators; the Finland based KONE®. Running at speeds of 4 m/s and 5m/s, the 6 residential elevators will be the fastest in Lebanon to date, with a capacity of 10 persons. Three elevators will serve the office part of the building. These run at a speed of 2.5 m/s with a capacity of 9 persons each. The system used reduces energy consumption and ensures a minimized waiting time.
In its efforts to be a LEED Certified Green building, Sama Beirut acts with responsibility when it comes to what can be presented to the community.
• Water: Sama Beirut will consume 30% less water. A 200m3/day capacity waste water treatment plant will store the treated water in the flush water tanks, the irrigation tank and the treated tank for the cooling towers. The selected trees, plants and flowers will have limited water needs, thus reducing by at least 50% the irrigation demands.
• Air Quality: Sama Beirut has taken measures both to minimize the impact of the exhaust it generates and to enhance the quality of the indoor environmental conditions. All construction materials will be environmentally friendly while high efficiency filters will equip all exahust systems, ducts and permeable materials.
• Waste: A tri‐sorting chute system will equip the project. Each unit should have a three bin compartment for recycling the waste: one for paper and cardboard, one for aluminum, metals glass and plastics and the third for organic and other refuse wastes. Apartments’ kitchens will include sink grinders. This will allow the efficient destruction of 50% of the organic waste produced, saving up to 120 kg/day of waste to be transported out of the site.
• Energy saving: Every detail, whether glazing, lighting, chillers or hot water pre‐heat is designed to help save 30% in building energy.
• Façade: Sama Beirut’s glass panels were selected for their exceptional energy conservation properties, with a heat transmittance coefficient more than four times lower than a conventional single glazing glass and more than two times lower than conventional double glazing. As a result, Sama Beirut occupants’ will be able to reduce heating and cooling consumption.
THE ELEVATORS
THE ENVIRONMENT
• Air Conditioning System: Sama Beirut has opted for central centrifugal chillers
with variable flow compressors. This system consumes 57% less electricity than a VRV system.
• Generators: Sama Beirut will be equipped with 4 generators set of 1,000 KVA each. By installing a heat recovery system, these generators will be also used to back‐up the project’s heating system.
• LED Lighting Fixtures: Sama Beirut is embracing the LED bet. The typical lifetime of LED is 50 times longer than the incandescent bulb. LEDs in Sama Beirut are expected to achieve energy savings of 30% on lighting and 10% on HVAC.
The tower raft foundation of Sama Beirut is completed. With 3.2 meters depth of concrete spanning over 1,400 square meters, the foundation has necessitated 800 tons of specially imported steel and 4,500 m3 of concrete, the equivalent of a 17‐floors building of 300 m2 footprint. At present, Sama Beirut’s Core Walls have reached the 51st floor. The Tower Podium is at the 49th floor.
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STAGE OF CONSTRUCTION
A team of 16 leading international and local consultants as well as specialists from different disciplines are assigned on Sama Beirut, bringing the most sophisticated technologies to the tower.
• Acousystem: Acoustics and Noise Level Control
• CRHI: Peer Review and LEED Certification
• Meinhardt Façade Technology: Façade Consulting
• RWDI: Wind, Solar
• Federal Technologies: Home Automation, Low Current Systems
• FASTbuilders: Facility Maintenance and Management
• Bureau Veritas: Technical Control
• S.T.S. Consultants: Drainage System
• ZMK: Landscape
• SDT International: Geothermal Energy
• Aartill: External and Public Areas Lighting
• S.E.S.: Solid Waste Management
• Liban Park: Parking Management
• Socotec: Shoring
• Amadeus Consult: Structural Engineering
• Sign: Signage
SUB‐CONSULTANTS
• KONE (Middle East) LLC & Kay Systems SAL ‐ Lifts Works
• ARCHITECTURAL Global Façade LLC ‐ Façades Works
• Tecman SAL ‐ Interior Decoration, Finishing and Hardscape Works
• Debbas Enterprise SAL ‐ MEP Works
• Baladi Freres & Co SAL ‐ Building Maintenance Unit Works
• EDAN Group International SAL ‐ Generators Works
• Osimex Liban SARL ‐ Kitchens Works
SUB‐CONTRACTORS
DEVELOPER
OWNER REPRESENTATIVE Engineer Elie F. Issa
CONSULTANT
ARCHITECTS ELIE AND RANDA GEBRAYEL
PROJECT MANAGER
D. G. JONES & PARTNERS (M.E.) LTD
LAWYERS
BANKERS
CONTRACTOR
MARKETING AND SALES
The content of this brochure is only for info and it does not constitute an undertaking of any kind on the part of the seller/promoter and may be amended in whole or in part without prior notice.
THE KEY PLAYERS