What makes us the premier design firm in the MENA region and Sub-Saharan Africa?

The answer comes in one all-encompassing word: Versatility.

Versatility is what allows us to meet the requirements of diverse projects and respond to the needs of different individuals. Versatility is what allows us to innovate and adapt wherever we are in the world. Versatility is also how we always manage to reconcile cost-effectiveness with great quality.

Our extensive range of engineering and design services plays a great role in enhancing this versatility as well:

ECG’s engineering services cover MEP, infrastructure, transportation and process engineering, in conjunction with a range of supplementary engineering services. These include civil and environmental engineering, together with fire protection, lighting, communications, security, and building management systems.

Our design services, on the other hand, cover Front-End Engineering & Design (FEED), Conceptual Design, Preliminary Design, Basis of Design Reports (BODRs), Schematic Design, Design Development, Detailed Design, Design Optimization, Construction Documents, Value Engineering and Computer Simulations.

We will admit we are perfectionists. When it comes to architectural design, we want to be innovative, functional, beautiful, environmentally friendly, and above all we want to leave a legacy for the generations to come. We also want to bring all that to every possible structure. Whether it be a bridge or a highway, an exterior or an interior, we want it to shine. 

Although this perfectionism keeps us up all night, it also pays off. We are very proud of our contributions to some of the most prestigious projects in the region: From landmark high-rises and mega residential compounds, to business parks and LEED compliant buildings, and from acoustics and vertical transportation to conveyor systems and much more.

This project was undertaken by a consortium comprising ECG Engineering Consultants Group, Misr Engineering Development Company (MEDCOM), and ECM Energy Services.
The district cooling plant consists of a ground floor and a mezzanine, with a total built-up area of about 3,500 m².
The plant, operated using chilled water, has a total cooling capacity of 16,866 kW (4,800 TR).
It includes the following components:

• double-height chiller yard complete with chillers, pumps, piping, and connections
• administration area that includes offices, meeting room, toilets, storage area, and other services
• electrical rooms with low-voltage and medium-voltage generators

The plant has four centrifugal, water-cooled, parallel counterflow chillers, as well as HFC-134a refrigerants. The chillers utilize the vapor-compression cycle, and each chiller has a capacity of 2 × 5,622 kW (2 × 1,600 TR) at a
constant speed, and a capacity of 2 × 2,811 kW (2 × 800 TR) at a variable speed.
District Cooling System

• Chilled water design temperature: 8.9 C°
• Chilled water supply/return: 4.4 C/13.3 C° Pumping
• Primary chilled water pumps: 4
• Secondary pumps: 4

Drive: variable speed

• Condensation pumps: 4
• Pump type: horizontal split case Cooling Towers
• Position: atop the plant
• Cooling towers: 4
• Cells per cooling tower: two towers have two cells each, and two towers have one cell each
• Cooling tower temperature: 5.6 C°
• Cooling tower design temperature (in/out): 35.0 C°/29.4 C°

The technology park is located in the City Center of New Beni Suef City. It is directly connected to Cairo-Minya Desert Road and Al-Nasr Road. Over a land area of about 50 feddans, the technology park comprises the following buildings:

• Two-Story Mosque: men’s prayer hall (320 m²) on the ground floor; service area and ladies’ prayer hall (160 m²) on the first floor; and an outdoor courtyard (520 m²).
• Call Center: ground floor (2,000 m²) and first floor (2,030 m²). The structural design allows the addition of three upper floors.
• Citizen Service Building: ground floor (1,445 m²) and first floor (555 m²).
• Office Building: ground floor (2,000 m²) and first floor (2,270 m²). The  structural design allows the addition of three upper floors.
• Training Building: ground floor (2,000 m²) and first floor (2,010 m²). The    structural design allows the addition of three upper floors.

The technology park is located in the City Center of Al-Sadat City. It is directly connected to Cairo-Alexandria Desert Road. Over a land area of about 50 feddans, the technology park comprises the following buildings:

• Two-Story Mosque: men’s prayer hall (320 m²) on the ground floor; service area and ladies’ prayer hall (160 m²) on the first floor; and an outdoor courtyard (520 m²).
• Call Center: ground floor (2,000 m²) and first floor (2,030 m²). The structural design allows the addition of three upper floors.
• Citizen Service Building: ground floor (1,445 m²) and first floor (555 m²).
• Office Building: ground floor (2,000 m²) and first floor (2,270 m²). The structural design allows the addition of three upper floors.
• Training Building: ground floor (2,000 m²) and first floor (2,010 m²). The structural design allows the addition of three upper floors.

ECG was mandated the engineering services for phases I and II of the Marsa Alam Power Plant which housed dual fuel diesel generators with a total power generation capacity of 30 MW. In undertaking phase I of the power plant, ECG supervised the construction of ancillary buildings such as tank farms, water and fuel treatment plants, an administration building, and a guard house.In phase II, ECG prepared detailed architectural, structural, and piping designs for tanks as well as fire detection and protection, electrical, and instrumentation and control systems.

Expanding the capacity of the existing Abu Qir Power Plant involved the development of the Abu Qir Thermal Power Plant. Situated on the Mediterranean coast, 20 km east of Alexandria and to the east of the existing Abu Qir Power Plant, it comprised two-650 MW two indoor condensing steam turbine generating units; two outdoor, dual-fuel fired, pressurized furnace steam generators and necessary auxiliary equipment including onsite storage, a natural gas reducing and handling facility, desalination plant for plant make-up water, off- shore structures for plant cooling water intake and discharge, water and wastewater treatment and GIS 500 kV indoor switchyard buildings. While the main fuel is natural gas, the plant was also designed to run on heavy fuel (Mazout) oil as a backup fuel.

ECG was awarded the quality control for this project which included, quality control for the ready mix concert plant, preparing the quality control plan for the civil works, managing the quality control plan with the auditing boards, correction actions for the NCR and supervised all the works to be sure it matches with the quality control plan. The structure scope of work included the intake structure, intake operation building and discharge to seal well structure.

Kharafi National (KN) was awarded the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract of Egypt West Damietta Gas Turbine Generating Plant (GTGP). ECG was invited by KN to provide the engineering design services in support to their EPC contract.

The first gas turbine unit was planned to start commercial operation on July, 2012 for Damietta GTGP. Subsequently, ECG set its fast track methodology to fully complete the design services in a period satisfying KN proposed schedule requirements.

The new plant has four new gas turbines with a total rated capacity of 500 MW using 4*125 MW gas turbines.

Understanding the importance, sensitivity and urgency for implementing the plant within the time constrain being a national “on spot” project, ECG quickly set a task force from its senior staff to plan and set the project staffing requirements and the immediate mobilization of task forces, fast-track quality control measures, and packaging of deliverables which were tailored to meet KN milestones, enabled the quick start of construction and allowed for a continuous flow of KN construction execution scheme.

ECG Scope of Services covered the following:

• Package 1: Enabling work
• Package 2: Foundation package
• Package 3: Tank farm design
• Package 4: Auxiliary Systems (service water system, compressed air system, solar fuel system, fire protection system, GIS substation, control s/s, LV transformer, control building, etc)
• Package 5: Infrastructure networks
• Package 6: Ancillary building

Kharafi National (KN) was awarded the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract of Egypt Damietta Gas Turbine Generating Plant (GTGP). ECG was invited by KN to provide the engineering design services in support to their EPC contract.

The first gas turbine unit started commercial operation on July, 2011 for Damietta GTGP. Subsequently, ECG set its fast track methodology to fully complete the design services in a period satisfying KN proposed schedule requirements.

The new plant has four new gas turbines with a total rated capacity of 500 MW using 4*125 MW gas turbines.

Understanding the importance, sensitivity and urgency for implementing the plant within the time constrain being a national “on spot” project, ECG quickly set a task force from its senior staff to plan and set the project staffing requirements and the immediate mobilization of task forces, fast-track quality control measures, and packaging of deliverables which were tailored to meet KN milestones, enabled the quick start of construction and allowed for a continuous flow of KN construction execution scheme.

ECG Scope of Services covers the following:

• Package 1: Enabling work
• Package 2: Foundation package
• Package 3: Tank farm design
• Package 4: Auxiliary systems (service water system, compressed air system, solar fuel system, fire fighting system, GIS substation, control s/s, LV transformer, control building, etc)
• Package 5: Infrastructure networks
• Package 6: Ancillary buildings

Kharafi National (KN) was awarded the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract of Egypt Al-Shabab Gas Turbine Generating Plant (GTGP). ECG was invited by KN to provide the engineering design services in support to their EPC contract.

The first gas turbine unit started commercial operation on June, 2011 for Al-Shabab GTGP. Subsequently, ECG set its fast track methodology to fully complete the design services in a period satisfying KN proposed schedule requirements.

The new plant has eight new gas turbines with a total rated capacity of 1,000 MW using 8*125 MW gas turbines.

Understanding the importance, sensitivity and urgency for implementing the plant within the time constraint being a national “on spot” project, ECG quickly set a task force from its senior staff to plan and set the project staffing requirements and the immediate mobilization of task forces, fast-track quality control measures, and packaging of deliverables which were tailored to meet KN milestones, enabled the quick start of construction and allowed for a continuous flow of KN construction execution scheme.

ECG Scope of Services covered the following:

• Package 1: Enabling work
• Package 2: Foundation package
• Package 3: Tank farm design
• Package 4: Auxiliary systems (service water system, compressed air system, solar fuel system, fire protection system, GIS substation, control s/s, LV transformer, control building, etc)
• Package 5: Infrastructure networks
• Package 6: Ancillary buildings

To serve the city of Fujairah and its environs, a wastewater collection and treatment system was developed.

The wastewater collection network comprised 120 km of sewer pipes, 16 pumping stations, and 11 km of wastewater transmission mains. Meanwhile, 4.6 km of effluent transmission mains joined the wastewater
treatment plant to the Mirbah Dam.

The implementation program was divided into two phases. Phase one involved the completion of the western and central parts of the wastewater collection network, pumping station no. 1, the wastewater pressure main (connecting pump station no.1 to the wastewater treatment plant), the effluent pressure main running to the Mirbah Dam, and the outlet structure at the Mirbah Dam.

In phase two, the remaining coastal strip connections of the wastewater collection network were conducted.

With a plot area of 111,000 m² and built-up area of 30,395 m², the shopping mall comprises a twostorey building (29,555 m²) which includes shops,
supermarket, restaurants, coffee shops, foodcourt area, department store & entertainment areas (4 cinemas, bowling, ice skating rink and kids play area) in addition to a servicebuilding (840 m²) which includes substation, chiller yard pump rooms and underground tanks.

The objective of the project is to construct a new 3-lane road (90 km length and 11.7 m width, Asphalt pavement type) connecting El Sheikh Fadl Village to Ras Gharib City, and to upgrade the existing road and the median in between, including the carriageway, shoulder and verge.

The project encompasses circulation plan, typical U-turns, road marking & signage, pavement layers and street lighting.
 

The construction project of the Domiatec Packing Plant comprises five buildings: administration building, packing building, refrigerator building, service building and storage building. The administrative building (total built-up area of 2,850 m²) consists of: ground floor encompassing the main entrance lobby, employee cafeteria, clinic, workers’ changing rooms for male and female, outlet hall and offices; first floor comprising employee offices and rest rooms; and second floor for future use.

The packing building (total packing area of 12,500 m²) serves with 2 loading docks for loading and unloading 10 trails simultaneously. The building is divided to 6 packing rooms with different sizes.

The refrigerator building (total area of 3,000 m²) comprises 6 cold and freezing rooms as well as engine and mechanical rooms. The service building (total area of 1,400 m²) accommodates all the mechanical and electrical services and staff rest rooms for 25 workers. The storage building (total area of 300 m²) consists of storage areas and workers’ rest rooms. The main gates are annexed with control and security rooms on two sides of the plant at different streets allowing all vehicles entering the plant to pass over a truck scale, both gates could be used as entrance and exit gates in emergencies.

KOBE Steel ltd supplied the Second Direct Reduction Plant (SDRP) Project in Egypt on a turnkey basis. Owned by Alexandria National and Steel Company S.A.E (ANSDK), the plant is a duplicate of the First Direct Production Plant supplied in 1986.

ECG was awarded the design services for all the piping works of the SDRP which covers the core area and the rack yard. The piping design package included the piping route plan; steel structure arrangement plan; outline foundation and anchors plan; piping layouts arrangement drawings; piping isometrics; piping support drawings; operating support drawings; operating platform drawings; piping stress analysis and material take off for piping, supports, insulation, site painting and site welding.

The plant includes a MIDREX type iron manufacturing plant with an annual capacity of 830,000 tons (core area), a water treatment system and a material handling system. Based on improvement in available technology, some modifications were included in the SDRP to improve production and maintenance performance from the original Direct Production Plant.

The plant is divided into three areas: the core area where the main process takes place comprises the furnace area, compressor area, reformer area and stack area; area for raw material (iron oxide) handling & finished product handling and rack yard area includes the overhead piping on the pipe rack within the Direct Reduction Plant battery limit, which consist mainly of utility fluid distribution pipes with large sizes up to 2,200 mm diameter, weighting approximately 900 tons and inter-connecting pipes between the water treatment area and the core area. Piping end points with other area or buildings are located in the vicinity of the pipe rack.

With a construction cost of US$125,000,000, the plant was successfully commissioned and the first production was accomplished in September 1997.

The General Authority for Red Sea Ports, the owner of the project, decided to execute extensions in the existing port of Adabeya. ECG provided full technical support in Adabeya Port EPC project. ECG scope included the review of detailed design and developing shop drawings for break water design (buildings to be safe against wave impact, sliding, and soil stresses); engine berth design (385m berthes with 12.5 m depth); potable water network (5.5 km piping); fire-fighting network; sanitary sewage network (1.6 km piping); irrigation network (3 km piping) and roads (6,640 m long with carriageway width of 15 m). The pavement is asphalt, interlock, and rigid types).

The port extension comprises infrastructure works (domestic, fire-fighting, sanitary sewage, Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP), irrigation, electrical, and communication networks), marine works (cut and fill protection sections, and engine berthes), roads & parking area, service buildings, drivers’ building, distributors’ building, transformer building, scale building, gates, yard fence, and customs area fence.

King Abdul Aziz International Airport (KAIA) in Jeddah is the third largest and busiest airport of Saudi Arabia. In 2010, it handled 17.8 million passengers. The airport is the gateway to Saudi Arabia for a large number of pilgrims. It is close to the cities of Mecca and Medina.

To cope with increased traffic and larger aircraft, KAIA is expanding its runway and passenger capacity by developing a new air traffic control tower, a new terminal complex, transport facilities and supporting buildings (out of ECG scope).

The expansion program will be implemented in three phases; the first phase supports up to 30 million passengers per year, increasing to 45 million in the second phase to an eventual capacity of 80 million passengers per year in the third phase by the year 2035.

ECG scope encompasses the review of detailed design documents, preparation of material list, and preparation of shop drawings for the new utility systems, road networks and tunnels for both airside and landside of phase (1). The asphalt-paved road is 60,000 m long, with carriageway width ranging from 20 to 40 m.

By the end of the 3 phases, KAIA will be a landmark economic development for the region, capitalizing on the Kingdom’s ambitious growth plans and the Authority’s efforts for Saudi Arabia to enhance the status of Jeddah as an international hub.

Located in the Petroleum Institute’s educational campus, Arzanah Building is devoted solely to the education of female students. Occupying an area exceeding 15,000m², and with a built-up area of 28,000m², the development
unfolds classrooms, laboratories, workshops, a library, and a dining hall.

Noteworthy, ECG also addressed the MEP coordination for the project with a construction cost stood at US$ 48 million.

Support facilities for the Petroleum Institute encompass offices, classrooms, computer laboratory, and staff administrative offices over a total built-up area of 2,700m².

Furthermore, a total built-up area of 1,150m² is devoted to a dining hall and a kitchen. Meanwhile, an indoor sports hall, with total built-up area of 8,400m², is developed with separate zones for males & females, changing and locker rooms, a gym, and a coffee shop. Interconnected male and female zones accommodate an indoor common entrance and a squash court.

For the project whose total construction cost is US $ 19 million, ECG’s mandate also involved MEP coordination.

With a total construction cost of EGP 110 million, the project is constructed on a total land area of 7,031 m².
The school comprises 36 classes distributed over four floors [ground floor (6,399 m²), first floor (5,063 m²), second floor (5,237 m²) and third floor (1,879 m²)], in addition to 240 m² playground.

The school’s state-of-the-art facilities include airconditioned classrooms, a large swimming pool, labs, a sports hall, sports fields and a multi-purpose hall.