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The "Adly Mansour Central Interchange Giant Station" project, which was implemented through the Arab Contractors Company, one of the specialized national Egyptian companies under the supervision of the Ministry of Transport represented by the National Authority for Tunnels, won the award for the best transport project in the world for the year 2022, according to the international magazine ENR. This award is given to the best and most impactful projects on the ground and the extent of their positive contribution to society and the environment.
The Adly Mansour Giant Interchange Station is a unique engineering work, as it was built on an area of 15 acres and contains 5 different means of transportation:
The terminal station of the third line of the subway, which is located on an area of 3,400 square meters, and is linked with the massive Umrah workshop of the metro on an area of 65 acres.
The electric train station - Al Asher / New Administrative Capital, which is located on an area of 3,700 square meters.
Suez railway station on an area of 6200 square meters.
Super Jet bus station for the governorates on an area of 6200 square meters.
It also contains a bus lane.
The station covers a giant canopy on an iron metal structure with an area of 24,000 square meters covered with weather-resistant glass and aluminum, using about 2,700 tons of steel pipes and resting on 50 circular concrete columns. An interior linking the electric train and subway stations with an area of 7,000 square meters, and a bridge linking the two stations with a length of 21 meters and a width of 18 meters to facilitate the smooth and direct transportation of passengers from one station to another. The complex is equipped with the latest monitoring, acoustics and firefighting systems.
About 75,000 cubic meters of reinforced concrete, 6,700 tons of steel reinforcement and 3 thousand tons of steel construction were used in the implementation of the station. 200 engineers and 800 workers participated in the implementation of this huge work, while the working hours amounted to more than 10.5 million hours and 19 thousand working hours. For equipment, the project took 18 months of continuous work.
The central station also includes a commercial mall consisting of two floors and a basement as a garage for mall users' cars with an area of 16 thousand square meters, in addition to green spaces with an area of 31 thousand square meters, parking spaces with an area of 11 thousand square meters, and roads with a length of 1,300 linear meters, in addition to a network of pedestrian tunnels. It connects from Cairo-Ismailia Road to the station with a total length of 200 meters, and 2 car parks with a total of 450 cars have been built to serve the station's patrons.
The giant station and the first and second phases of the LRT electric train project were inaugurated on 3/7/2022 to provide the highest level of services to the public of passengers, in implementation of the political leadership’s directives to expand the establishment of green, sustainable and environmentally friendly mass transportation.