Cairo Festival City 66/22 KV Substation

Project Description

The project comprised the design, construction supervision, commissioning and handover of a 66/22 kv electrical substation and its connection cables with the external main grid to feed the Cairo Festival City (CFC) project.

The 66/22 kv substation is part of the site wide infrastructure and associated projects for Cairo Festival City located at the 5^th Conglomerate in New Cairo.The said substation is interconnected with New Cairo Station, 12 km apart throughout 630 mm² cables (route no.1) and with Zahraa Madinet Nasr-Police Academy Station, 3.5 km apart throughout 400 mm² cables (route no.2).

The CFC Substation is built on an area of 3,042 m², and consists of five buildings as follows:

66 kv building (66 kv switchgears and bus bars): consists of one floor with a footprint area of about 650 m².
22 kv building (22 kv switchgear, control hall, AC/DC room, telecommunication room, battery room and auxiliary transformers): consists of basement and two floors with a footprint area of about 385 m².
Guard room: consists of one floor with a footprint area of about 20 m².
Fire-fighting room: consists of one floor with a footprint area of about 25 m².
Store room: consists of one floor with a foot print area of about 28 m².
Underground water tank and pump room: with a foot print area of about 85 m².