The building is part of ‘Amarembo City Center’, a large project comprised of architectural marvels expected to make the city’s skyline richer and more colourful.
The structures will be erected at former premises of Akagera Motors, Ets. Verma, Mironko and Mukangira between Kigali City Mall (former Union Trade Center) and Kigali City Tower.
Amarembo will be comprised of buildings extended on 120,000 square meters.
Despite the delay in other buildings under this project, the construction of Nobelia Tower is underway.
It is expected that Nobelia Tower project will be comprised of water-efficient green buildings using renewable energy.
The 19-floor building will be extended on 11 469 square meters of which 9,284 will be dedicated for businesses. It will have offices to let, commercial buildings and restaurants among others.
The project’s design was produced by a Spanish company dubbed Carlos Arroyo Architects. The company has executed different mega construction projects in Belgium, France, the United Kingdom and Germany.
Its principal, Carlos Arroyo is among expert architects in Europe. He served as a lecturer at different universities including Princeton SOA, Boston MIT, Berlin TU, Bauhaus, Politecnico di Milano, Paris ENSAPLV and Tokyo University. He currently teaches at the Universidad Europea de Madrid, where he is Academic Curator of the Master in Architecture.
HABI Ltd, an investor running Nobelia Tower project began construction activities in June 2022 while design phase commenced in 2014 and was completed in October 2015.
Green by Design, a US based company offering consultancy services in large, sustainable and green construction projects was also involved from conceptualisation through every phase of the design to ensure the facility meets all standards.
After completing the design concept, Nobelia Tower was rated as a six-star green building making it the first of its kind to receive the rating in East Africa.
Some of aspects considered for a building to be classified among six-star facilities include the source of energy, construction materials, heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system and water and waste recycling among others.
A building receives a six-star grading if the average of points given to all features ranges between 70 and 100%.
This is the case for Nobelia Tower. It will be comprised of water-efficient green buildings using renewable energy.
It also has a sophisticated HVAC system had to be incorporated to dehumidify the fresh air, which will be distributed through hollow-core floor slabs, where the air is fed at floor level, displacing the air in the room and extracting it at ceiling level.
The building’s solar panels will also have the capacity to generate 198 804 kWh per annum.
Among others, onsite waste management needed to address as all organic waste will be used to create compost onsite. It is an addition to an onsite water treatment system expected to result in a 90% total reduction of water discharge.
As the project’s design was released; Eudes Kayumba, the Chairperson of Green Building Council of Rwanda said that Nobelia Office Tower would be used as ‘the benchmark for all future green buildings in Rwanda and the Central East African region’.
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