Client:

Misr Company of Sound, Light, and Cinema, Egypt

Location:

Luxor, Egypt

Lighting Project of the Luxor West Bank, Valley of the Kings and the Queens

Site area 24 square kilometers
 
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The West Bank of Luxor, home to the worlds' top archaeological discoveries, is presently witnessing a turning corner in its tourism history. Under the direction of The Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) headed by its Secretary General Dr. Zahi Hawas, the Misr Company of Sound, Light, and Cinema (MCSLC) is launching an epic project to illuminate the 24 sq km site effectively accentuating its prized ancient Egyptian monuments, relics, and natural landscape. The West Bank comprising the Valley of the Kings and the Queens along with other significant archaeological monuments in this area has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979. Located in Luxor, the world's greatest archaeological open-air museum, the West Bank Lighting Project aims to boost the city's tourism revenues and commercial activity; enhance the West Bank's security system; and extend tourist activity hours (currently restricted to daytime only) into the night to accommodate nighttime-only city visitors.

Engaged as the project's power supply consultant, ECG is responsible for the design of a low-voltage power supply system that respects the globally unparalleled historic terrain, maintains the integrity of its unique topography, and offers a secure and reliable setting showcasing a sensational panorama of a professionally lighted West Bank. ECG is undertaking this project in collaboration with the international consultants Architecture Lumiere and its mother company CITELUM Group, France, who are handling the project's lighting concept design.

ECG's low voltage electrical designs involve the positioning and rating of a substantial number of camouflaged lighting fixtures/racks, panels, cable routing schemes, hand holes, and the transformers main distribution boards. With a total rating of 469 kW, nine hundred ninety two projectors are to light up the rocky elevations, particularly underscoring temples/tombs entrances for East Bank viewers. Three hundred up-lighters featuring a total rating of 45 kW shall focus their beams on the rural strip palm trees. Other electrical system design components needed for this massive scheme entail nine transformers mains with a total rating of 1,000 kVA, fifty-eight distribution panels, twenty-three kilometers of cables, and twenty-one kilometers of wiring. All equipment selected ensure complete compatibility with site integrity in terms of color; texture; future maintenance; durability; equipment protection in case of volatile electric current fluctuations, complete outages, transients, and inrush current; as well as ongoing archaeological exploration and excavation plans. Load center determination analysis, wiring plans/diagrams, and network plans were drawn up to verify electric voltage accepted profile throughout the proposed supply and distribution system.

In addition to the preparation of the site's electrical design system, ECG's scope of work under the national prestigious project comprises drawing up tender documents along with providing assistance in the tender evaluation and action processes.

Scope

  • Detailed design

Types of activities

  • Electrical

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