Client:

Central Bank of Egypt

Location:

El Gomhoria Street, Cairo, Egypt

Central Bank of Egypt Headquarter

BUILT UP AREA 44,000 Square meters

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After 10 years of challenged with various construction and design problems, the Central Bank of Egypt assigned ECG to manage and achieve an easy, safe, trouble free handover of the Central Bank of Egypt New Building for mobilizing the staff to the new building without interrupting the operations of the work; and put the new building in operation under the control of a qualified facility management contractor as well as collect, organize and archive all related documents in a system that is easy to handle and update whenever necessary.

The new office facility comprises 10 floors + 3 basements occupying 44,000 m2 built-area and has 2 main entrances, one for the employees from Gomhoria street and another entrance for the customers from the back street. The building is serviced by 16 elevators (2 for cargo, 2 for currency, 2 for top management and guests and 10 for the employees), four, 1000 kVA, G.E transformers fed from 2 different substations, central air conditioning plant consists of 4 train chillers, 2 MG UPS systems, 1 G.E UPS system dedicated to the main computer room, power and lighting network, domestic and water lifting pumps, fire water lifting pumps and sprinkler system, seepage water lifting pumps, clean agent fire fighting system (CO2 and FM 200) in certain areas, telephone system and Computer and safety integrated system (CCTV, fire alarm, controlled access doors, sound system, etc..).

ECG conducted a full review and investigation of all the systems in CBE main building with the objective of facilitating the handover of the building from the contractor and consultant to the CBE. ECG carried out an evaluation of the completed work and identified the items not completed or required for the safe occupation of the building.

ECG conducted a thorough safety evaluation and test program for all electrical and mechanical systems. ECG managed the modifications to electrical and mechanical systems to improve the safe operation. ECG also implemented some architectural modifications to inhance the life safety measures.