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CATEGORY: Engineering & project management, Housing & Residential Facilities
LOCATION: Kalamata, Greece
START/END: 1989-1991
CLIENT: Municipal Reconstruction Enterprise of Kalamata
ORIGIN OF FUNDING: Municipal Reconstruction Enterprise of Kalamata
PROJECT VALUE: MEP: 10,200,000
LDK’s BUDGET SHARE: 100%

Type of Services
The scope of work included the Preliminary Design, Design Development, and Final Design of the following installations:
Water Supply / Sewage / Storm Drainage/ Fire Fighting / Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning / Lighting / Electrical Power / Electrical Substation / Fire Detection / Telephones - Data / Radio - Television /Lightning Protection and Earthing / Lifts
Description
The project is about a residential complex with 120 bioclimatic apartments and their surroundings located in the eastern downtown centre of Kalamata, Greece.
The residential complex was designed by applying several techniques based on bioclimatic architecture criteria, such as passive systems for heating - cooling, on energy conservation principles and on the use of solar energy. As far as active solar systems are concerned, a solar heater is installed in every apartment for the production of hot water.