During the Board of the Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University in its session held on September 12, 2022 AD, Prof. Dr. Omar Al-Husseini - Dean of the Faculty of Engineering honored Ain Shams engineering team and the first place winner in the competition organized by the Youth Leaders Foundation under the supervision of concrete plus company, a competition on preparing designs for facilities in the administrative capital.

The winning students are:

1. Maryam Khaled Abdel Aziz Mustafa/ Architectural Engineering/ 3rd year.
2. Hadeel Ibrahim Fouad/Architecture/3rd year.
3. Radwa El-Sayed Helal El-Sayed/Architecture/2nd year
4. Ahmed Tarek Mohamed Amin / structural engineering / 3rd year.
5. Mustafa Ashraf Muhammad Zakaria Al-Ahmar / structural engineering / 3rd year.
6. Mayar Yahya Hatem Ammar / Mechanical Power Engineering / 3rd year.
7. Youssef Khaled Abdel-Fattah El-Sawy / Mechanical Power Engineering / 3rd year.
8. Mahmoud Ahmed Mahmoud Abdel Hamid Tahoun/ Electricity of Power and Electrical Machines/3rd year.

Concrete plus for engineering and construction, in cooperation with YLF Youth Leaders Foundation, has concluded a student competition to design Christ Cathedral Square in the New Administrative Capital for the project (Cathedral Square), a square with a diameter of approximately 200 meters, that includes waterfalls, fountains, aesthetic architectural facilities, green walls and different types of plants, in addition to attractive lighting The shape of the land is pyramid, and the LRT passes through it, and about its location, it is located at the intersection of Road 4 with the southern axis of Bin Zayed, in front of the Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ and near the mosques of Egypt and Al-Fattah Al-Alim, GIU University and the CBD area that includes the iconic tower, which gives the square a great importance.

33 teams of engineering students from different universities of the republic participated in the competition, from different departments, architectural, civil, mechanical, and electrical.

Among more than 250 students, the team of the Faculty of Engineering at Ain Shams University succeeded in excelling and winning the competition, participating with new and different ideas that impressed everyone who participated in the competition and those in charge of it, which will actually be implemented in the implementation of the project.

Here are some of the challenges the winning team faced:

• Department of Engineering Architecture

- Model and complete conception of the project

- Making executive and design boards and business measurements:

- Public site panel

- Landscape painting with its details

- Project details panel

- A public sector on the land

- facade panel

- Providing new solutions for waterfalls and fountains

- Creating new and different types of coverings for artworks and waterfalls

- Searching for new types of crops, providing solutions for them, and communicating with suppliers and contractors' companies

- Provide suggested companies for all materials and materials required and used in the project

• Civil engineering Department:

The team designed the various elements of the project and produced executive boards and measurements for the following works:

- Metal structures needed for architectural spatial formations

- Tree and ordinary beams

- Retaining walls and their green cover

- Mechanical and electrical rooms

- Foundations and quantities of excavation and backfilling

This was accompanied by coordination with the various departments and presenting innovative ideas, solutions and distinct alternatives. This was presented to the jury who showed their admiration for these ideas.

• Department of Electrical Power:

- The locations of the headlights were reviewed and their intensity was calculated using the Dialux EVO program

- The capacity of each wire was calculated and thus the cutter allocated to it and the area of ​​the wire clips used as well as the cutters were calculated

- The requirements and requirements of the Egyptian code have been achieved in many aspects, such as: Determining the locations of the sockets.

- A complete excel sheet was made with the short circuit calculations and the voltage loss calculations for each panel from the main feeder source, and the numbers were carefully reviewed from different sides, thus choosing the area of ​​the main cable clips

- A full shop drawing has been done for the project

- A BOQ list has been developed and companies are suggested

- Coordination was made with the rest of the departments, due to the emergence of some problems during work, solutions and proposals were developed, and some solutions were taken into account

• Mechanical forces:

- Designing everything related to water supply to the waterfalls at a height of 9 meters (and the fountains and water basins in the field and attaching the necessary calculations.

- Units were selected to distribute water for the waterfalls with a high flow rate suitable for filling the vast waterfall basins, which are characterized by ease of installation and feeding with water.

- Design of the manhole, selection of pumps, and determination of the capacity of equipment for water purification.

- Providing executive drawings for the pump room and for the different parts of the water purification system and the system of feeding fountains and waterfalls with water, taking into account the maintenance part

- Calculating the quantities needed for the project for the mechanical part and providing a list of companies to supply all parts

- All of the above was done in coordination with the students of other departments to ensure the quality of the project and to choose suitable water delivery paths to suit the civil and architectural parts and to achieve no conflict between the mechanical equipment and the electrical panels in the inspection room.