Project Details
| Name | Year | Location | Client | Type | Description | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| International College, Energy Audit | 2022 | Beirut, Lebanon | Arina Energy | Energy Audit | Energy audit for all school buildings | PDP Energy executed a level II energy audit for all school buildings |
Project Background & Objectives
The International College, Energy Audit project was initiated to deploy advanced sustainability and utility optimization diagnostics for a premier educational institution in Beirut, Lebanon. Commissioned by Arina Energy, this targeted institutional assessment focused on restructuring power utilization patterns to reduce carbon exposure and heavy reliance on costly regional power supplies. Within this critical facility management framework, PDP Energy was selected to direct the comprehensive technical evaluation. The primary company-specific objectives centered on executing a complete Energy audit for all school buildings, where the engineering team successfully executed a level II energy audit for all school buildings to map consumption behaviors and identify deep structural energy inefficiencies.
Project Challenges
Conducting an intensive Level II energy audit across a highly active, multi-building urban educational campus introduces complex operational and data-modeling hurdles. Tracking dynamic real-time electrical profiles across diverse zones—ranging from climate-controlled auditorium spaces and high-density computing laboratories to general classroom facilities—demands precise technical coordination. PDP Energy had to navigate the challenge of gathering massive, highly precise consumption datasets without disrupting the school’s daily academic calendar or compromising student comfort. This required deploying sophisticated, non-intrusive logging devices, cross-referencing intricate HVAC system cooling loads, and modeling building thermal envelopes to isolate energy waste accurately.