OVERALL ON-SITE DESIGN 1.

Background History

Chaung Thar is a fisherman village which is located at the Adman Sea coast, west of Myanmar. It is started to famous in 1990s among the local visiters because of easy access and right proximity from Yangon City after open up new roads. It is also famous of various fresh sea food. Generally Chaung Thar is in tropical climate zone,where the annual rainfall is about 120 inches. The temperature is a bit high up to 40 degree celcius in summer days. There are altogether 13 beach hotels, where Belle Hotel is one of the leading hotels among them.

2. Design and Environmental Consideration

Belle Resort, planned like a village among the coconut palms , is about 600 feet along the beach and 300 feet wide from the main road. Belle starts to operate 58 rooms , together with reception, dining hall, outdoor -pool side dining area, kitchen and laundry in January 2008.A rimless swimming pool visually connects the Adman Sea to the pool deck dining area. Fortunately there are trees and coconut palms at site, the design team took this advantage to create a beautiful tropical beach with energy efficient buildings. 12 single storeys Deluxe and 2 Family Suites are placed in the front line to offer breath taking sea views. To let the breeze and daylight into the rooms, separated verandahs have only roof and handrails. Rooms can be totally opened, bath rooms also have openable windows to get the enough lighting through from inner gardens.

VIEW DECK

FAMILY ROOM INTERIOR

DELUXE ROOM INTERIOR

-At the second row,12 nos. Elegance Superior ,4 nos Quad and 8 nos Triple rooms are two storey buildings -All buildings have the panoramic of sea view and breeze cross through from the coconut palms. The attached verandah which has only roof and handrails allow the natural lighting and ventilation into the rooms.

VIEW FROM VERANDAH TO SEA

STANDARD ROOMS

SWIMMING POOL

-18 Standard rooms have their own garden in front of the building to have natural impact and enough open space with second row buildings to have good ventilation and scenery and they are two storey buildings situate at road side. -Swimming pool , the visual connection element between open dining hall and sea to blend with nature. Walkways between one building to another is surrounded with series of lawns and the foot paths paved with natural sand stones .Corridor between lobby hall and dining is made of natural sand stones from the nearest local area is also allows the air flow and natural lighting. -The designer carefully took account on existing site conditions which is to mix with regional style and natural setting and , also to create comfort in hot and dry climate with natural environment.

ACTIVE DESIGN There is no governments electrical power supply at Chaung Tha resort. All of the hotels have to be used by their own generated power plant. There are 5 number of generators sets are using at this hotel alternately. So that they can provide only as much the required electricity load according to the occupancy rate resulting in saving waste of energy. Single phase of 20KVA one number is using essential power of the hotel such as common area lightings, control room, street lightings, and some of guest rooms lighting and power supply at low season for a very few of customers. The bigger gen set, three phase 25KVA and 60 KVA are used at guest rooms lighting, air con; and water heater power at 50 percentage of peak season. The biggest gen set, three phase 220KVA and 275KVA are used at guest rooms lighting, air con; and water heater power at more than 50 percentage of power demand at peak season.

There is no auto synchronizing system, just only use manual change over switches as per using of load for the purpose of energy saving. That mean they will provide only necessities of electricity power load accordance with occupancy rate resulting in saving waste of energy. Generator fuel used is recorded and averaged monthly for later review. The generator room is ventilated with natural air and also enclosed by sound proof. There are separated 4 numbers of sub main Distribution Board. Three of sub main Distribution Board are using for the power supply of guest rooms. And then another one is using of essential power supply and guest rooms at the lowest season.

As it is a beach resort hotel, guests used to go out of their rooms in the morning and in the evening, so the electricity power is cut 6:00am to 1:00pm and again from 3:00pm to 6:00 pm to save generator power. One interesting source of energy is the Wind turbine. It is located just across the main road which is about 150 meters away from the hotel. It was donated by one of many Japanese NGOs a few years ago. Now the management of the hotel is planning to get the electric power from it. It is expected to receive the power for street and security lights for the hotel. It will hopefully happen within the year 2009. Power Consumption of Guest Houses For air conditioning system, 1H.P and 1.5Hp split type are used in the guest rooms. Kitchen, Laundry, Reception and Dining room area are not used air conditioning. These will be comfortable with natural fresh sea air.

In the kitchen, in order to avoid the retention of food smells in the restaurant and the spread of odors to adjacent premises mechanical fans are used which supply outdoor air at a rate at least 20 air changes per hour. One unit of 100 liter water heater is sharing for two guest rooms for saving of energy.

Deluxe room, family room, superior room, and standard rooms lighting load are about 1.89 Watt per square meter.

Garden lights are also differentiated in groups, decorative lights and functional lights. At sleeping time, all the decorative lights are switched- off and only very few for security are left. Water resource Rain water is collected by dam at raining season. It is about 15Km from site. Both rain water and other tube well underground water are available at the resort. These raw water were collected at the under ground raw water tank in service zone. Treated water is transferred to 35 feet height elevated water tanks. The water pressure of each water point is about 0.85 Bar. There is no used booster pump or auto pressure pumps for the water delivery system. It is used only the gravity flow by the mean of electric power saving. It has two of tube well in this compound there are used for the gardening water and staff utilities.

Waste Deposit Kitchen waste water outlets are sent to grease trap tank that was separated to grease and water liquid. The sewage systems are individual types in which traditional septic tanks. Kitchen garbage are used as animal food ( for pig). Dustbin are placed at public area and restaurant, and dinning area. In this resort, Hotel owners association provide the one car for the collect of rubbish in which from all of the hotels rubbish are collected by the car at two time for morning and evening. Some of hotel staffs pick up the rubbish on the sandbank at morning time those were thrown by customers.

PASSIVE DESIGN 1- Concept A concept approach to create the building with environmental design. Architect has attempted to achieve to make a tropical building which is familiar to local guests and harmony with regional background. Depend on the existing site condition, design team tried to conserve the trees especially coconut palms as the part of landscape. 2- Site Preparation -Existing landscape and trees are preserved as much as possible. -Level up and retaining walls to prevent from tide in rainy season. -The buildings are planned nearest to the sea for prevention of noise and air pollution from the main road. -Selections of building materials as timber, aggregates, natural stones, sand stones are from the nearest local area to reduce the price and transportation. 3-Building Design Being in the hot humid climate zone, Architect has attempted to adapt the nature as much as possible with good natural ventilation and shading strategy to achieve the comfort zone.

- Each building was placed and spaced carefully to achieve maximum air flow and sea view. -All design elements were designed based upon the local traditional Architecture, both in style and the use of building materials, so the local carpenters and masons have opportunities to work on something familiar to them. -All guest rooms and function hall are placed facing the sea to have sea view and breeze enough. -All ground covers except car parking and pathways are covered with soft scape , lawn and green areas to reduce the heat radiation. -Only the sleeping area is air-conditioned which is required the whole year round except winter months to meet comfort condition . -Bed area is totally opened to the sea so that none of the rooms require artificial lighting at day time. -Wide overhang and timber screen at verandah protect the rooms from direct sunlight and rain . -Bathrooms have comfortable temperature, enough day light and nice view from the the inner garden.

-High ceilings are applied in reception and dining hall to promote air circulation within the building and leave space for hot air above .

-Roofing tile is imported from nearby country as good quality roofing tiles are not locally available. It has heat reduction capacity, long durability and resistant to salt water . -Architect used brick walls in building to reduce the heat .The building materials are carefully chosen to need less maintenance to save energy and cost .

Design team used the building materials like natural sand stones which can have from the nearest local area ,in pathways ,walls, finishes and floors. The lighting fixtures are made with the waste of construction timber.

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT -To mix with nature, buildings were planned to integrate with flora and fauna. Existing screw pines and casuarinas trees are the main elements of the landscape. Less cut less fill method for the construction is used to maintain the natural ground. Shells washed aggregates were used as decorative elements to mix with nature.

-The timber such as teak, iron wood(pyinkadow),kenyaung were used for the building. But percentage of the timber is only 20 percent of the total building materials. Unavoidably, timber shuttering were used for R.C columns and beams. One used timber shuttering were reused as hotel furniture, art works and lighting fixtures. -Cars can be parked only at the hotel car parking which is adjacent to the reception and guests can walk to the living units. Bicycles are provided for the guests to go around the beach. -Hotel beach and compound are cleaned manually. -Rain water is collected from the roof gutter to the storage tank and treated for the use of hotel staff and gardening. -Waste water of the hotel is disposed to soak pit. -Waste of the dining is reused as animal food. -All the linen and towel are dried only by the sun. -To minimize visual impact of glare in the natural environment, all the buildings and design elements are painted to be harmonized with nature. -All the materials used are durable materials which need less maintenance. And also less detail decorative ornamentation is used for legibility of the building.

MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT -As a maintenance routine, regular inspection of the whole building ,furniture ,lighting fixtures, air-cons , water supply systems, etc; is made and are cleaned and repaired if required. -There is also M& E engineer of hotel for regular maintenance of air-condition systems and lightings. -There is occasional training of staff for health ,safety and cleaning and other requirements.

-And a guard goes around and checks the whole hotel daily whether any air con is left switch-on by the guest or whether lights or water taps are left on when they are not in use. -Garden lighting, decorative lighting and walkway lights are separated in both circuit and switch ,only the walk way lights is use at mid night. -Linens are sundried in the service yard as much as possible in order to save energy consumption.

BUILDING INFORMATION

A.General Information
1. Belle Resort 2.U Aung Than Win,Royal Palace Hotel co.ltd 3.Belle Resort,Chaungthar,Myanmar 4.Tel:(95)01-510117 Fax:(95)01-539570 Email:belleresort@myanmar.com.mm

B.Building Physical Information

5. Physical building background The resort started construction in 2006 and the grand opening was held in 2008 january.The charming property of the resort is hostility and familiar regional expression for all types of travelers.Among the group of coconut palms, Belle Resort is like one of the village in this region for every guest to enjoy. 6.Age of building ;one and half year 7.Any retrofit done? When?What? None 8.Total number of storeys;one and two 9-Total number of basement floor; None 10-Number of car park storeys; None 11-Total gross floor area; 56,600 ft 2 12-Surface area of the envelope including the roof to gross floor area ratio; 13-Car park area; 28cars 14-Gross lettable area; 49,000 ft 2 15-Air-conditioned area; 15,670 ft 2 16-Non-air conditioned area; 40,930 ft 2 17-Plot ratio ( total GFA / ground area ) ; 42,080/ 19,3000 sf2

C-Building Design and Practice Information 18-Plants and landscape design/wind and natural ventilation /water features/daylighting/ Etc ; Replanting and conserving the trees,using wind and cross ventilation,wide windows,and open space 19-Faade and shading design; - Type of faade ; Tropical Building - Color of faade ; Sand color,other natural material color - Use of shading devices ; Over hang and shading from trees 20-Location of service core ; corner of site 21-Shape of building ; Tropical 22-Overall heat transfer through building envelope ; Wall .03 W/m2 ; Roof .07 W/m2 23-Lighting fixtures; hand made with timber and local fabric 24-Lighting load 20 W/m2 25-Building air-conditioner system and equipment Fresh air exchange rate ; Natural ventilation Energy efficiency of aircon chiller ; This building doesnt use a chiller 26-Cooling Load 16.2 W/m2, 1.2 KW/ton (air-conditioned area )

BUILDING INFORMATION D. Operation Information

3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 0 Nov-08 Dec-08 Jan-09 Feb-09 Mar-09 Apr-09 571 1500

1. 2. 3. E.

Occupancy rate (year 2008): Minimum 11 % to Maximum 57% of total area Total number of occupants ;3455 rooms Ownership of building (occupied by owner(s), renter(s), etc.); by owner

Energy Consumption Information 32. Peak demand (monthly) 63000 kwh 33. Energy used (April)36000 kwh 34. Typical Load curve (weekdays, weekends) 35. Energy efficiency index*: air-conditioned area 32 kWh/m2/yr (based on 2,000 operational hours/yr) 36. Energy consumption: Electricity 67 kWh/m2/yr (based on 2,000 operational hours/yr) - Fuel ________ Liters/yr (not for electricity generation) F. Energy Management Information 37. Building energy management system connected physical points _______ (no) 38. Energy saving:

Schedule programme 22176 kWh/yr Duty cycle programme 6653 kWh/yr Optimum start / stop programme ______ kWh/yr Power demand programme 176 kW (mean) G. Maintenance Information 39. Maintenance programme - Manpower: 16000 man-hr/yr - Maintenance contractor - Availability of energy management engineer - Training of maintenance workers: 36 cumulative hours/yr. H. Environmental Impacts 40. Impacts of waste There is separated septic tank for every building and foul water from soak pit flow to the landscape area . 41. Impacts of pollution (air, noise, visual, exhaust, etc.)- Trees are conserved and replanted as much as possible by means of air pollution, visual privacy and prevention from noices.