Every bioclimatic construction is unique project and our team of experts elaborates a number of studies to propose the final design that fulfills several environmental criteria.

our working process in 3 steps

Bioclimatic architecture is one of the most important factors of green building for us.

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Climate Analysis

On the first stage, an in depth site and local climate analysis is conducted to reveal the unique local characteristics. The climate analysis is based on the historic metrological data, including local temperature characteristics, wind direction and velocity, humidity and solar radiation etc. Bearing in mind the average lifespan of a building (almost 60 years) and the rising concerns about climate change, our company offers a unique service by using future weather projection (depending on data availability) in collaboration with European Universities, in order to ensure that our constructions will cope with future rising temperatures.

Collect and Plan

On a second stage, the design team gathers all the appropriate information regarding occupancy annual/daily plan and expected installed equipment and any other special requirements that the each client may have. These data will help our team to decide the appropriate construction elements and design features of the building in order to match with the intended use by minimizing energy consumption.

Designs and Explore

Finally by taking into account the conclusions of the aforementioned analysis, our engineering team designs and explores, with the aid of high intelligence software, natural ventilation strategies, daylight techniques and the overall thermal performance of the construction. On that stage is also examined the integration of solar energy systems and in order to cover a proportion of either heating/cooling loads or electricity needs and the exploitation of climatic renewable sources as well as phenomena of climate.

The result of imposing bioclimatic architecture and the holistic treatment is a significant reduction in losses due to the improved thermal protection of building’s shell and the behavior of the structural components.

Fundamental elements in our bioclimatic approach are passive systems, which mainly consists of their structural units at most. The passive systems that we study and implement operate either with minimum use of HVAC equipment or without at all when the exploitation of natural resources is feasible it comes to exploit a natural energy source.

The active systems that we study and implement, utilize solar energy and natural energy resources.

We implement hybrid systems that combine methods of passive cooling with ultra-low power and high efficiency active ones.

The result of such an approach was to achieve the cooling of a residence, which under heat-wave (37,5 ° C) maintained an inside-outside temperature difference of more than 8 ° C, with only 2,5 KWh energy consumption per 24 hours of operation! The constant introduction of innovative solutions, even to the passive means is what makes each of our building projects unique. Another case is the application of ceramic nanospheres in the final layer of plaster to maximize the efficiency performance of the insulated building shell in a group of bioclimatic residences in Penteli which lead to an additional 15% reduction of energy consumption, with a total goal of 87% versus a conventional construction.