Users' Choice Building winner of the #GBCSAwards 2016: BMCE Bank of Africa Academy (Morocco)

BMCE Bank of Africa Academy is a complex composed of training rooms, a reception centre, an amphitheater, a restaurant and a bank agency. BMCE, a company committed to sustainable development, chose  the HQE approach (High Environmental Quality) to translate the performances of this project in international measurements, but also to disseminate best practices in sustainable buildings, with the hundreds of professionals who will come to the complex for training.

Several solutions were chosen to meet the HQE certification requirements:

• local materials were favoured
• implementation of renewable energy systems (solar and wind)
• a responsible water management
• optimisation of consumptions through a BMS
• a building site with low environmental impact
  
  

• Contractor: BMCE Bank
• Designer: Hakim Benjelloun
• Engineering Consultancy: Bureau Veritas
• Address : Bouskoura, Morocco

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