Sustainability
Olaya Daylight Retrofit
- Location
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Year
- 2025
- Contributors
- SKN Sustainability Core
Whole-building energy + daylighting retrofit taking a 1990s office tower toward MOSTADAM compliance.
Dynamic solar-exposure simulation drove a high-performance facade retrofit, cutting modelled cooling demand by half.
A full life-cycle assessment quantified the embodied-carbon payback of the new envelope against demolition.