M. Hanan Taha, Head of the Projects Sector

Sector overview:

The projects sector is considered the mastermind and beating heart of the company, as one of the tasks assigned to this broad sector is to study and provide solutions to all technical problems existing in the company’s various sectors, as well as keeping pace with the rapid technological developments that occur in all systems in order to maintain the leadership and brilliance of the Alexandria Drinking Water Company among the subsidiaries. .

The projects sector is also specialized in developing strategic plans, technical policies, and proposing plans for projects that serve the work of operating and maintaining distribution networks and drinking water production stations, as well as preparing studies, designing and implementing projects, third-party services, specialized workshop work, and working to raise the company’s work efficiency.

Strategic objectives of the sector:

Maintaining the continuity of providing high quality drinking water in appropriate quantities to all current and future company service areas.
Raising the highest level of customer service.
Preparing leaders and cadres through continuous training, qualification, and capacity building to achieve the maximum benefit from these cadres and improve the efficiency of the company’s employees.
Reducing losses (1% to 2%) annually by using the latest technologies in leak detection, determining physical losses, identifying commercial losses (thefts, etc.), maintenance work - replacement and renewal - and rationalizing water use.
Using modern technology to obtain world-class performance.
Increased storage capacity by 10%...to meet increased demand at peak times by creating new reservoirs.
Increase the pressures in the networks to not less than 15 meters at the last point in the network within 5 years by constructing new levers.
Studying all technical problems facing all sectors of the company and preparing studies and solutions.

• Achievements in 2016-2017

  In April 2017: The functional structure of the sector was amended, and accordingly, the general departments affiliated with the Projects Sector became as follows:

  1- General management of projects.

  2- General Administration of Hydraulic Analysis, GIS, leakage maps and meters

  3- General Administration of the General Plan.

  4 - General Administration of Technical Support

• In the field of planning:
  Reviewing and amending the national plan to maximize water resources to achieve optimal management of those resources now and in the future to confront any changes in the water resources management system in Alexandria Governorate.
  Follow-up and coordination regarding the study of the implementation of seawater desalination plants in the eastern region and the western region of Alexandria Governorate
  Periodically updating a statement of the network projects required to be implemented to solve the problems of hot spots.
  Activating the role of the Alexandria Water Company in the initiative to prepare clear, specific, and unified five-year visions and plans for Alexandria Governorate.
  Preparing an atlas of hot areas as well as an atlas of the investment plan according to the general plan data for 2017/2018.

• In the field of rationalizing energy consumption and uses of renewable solar energy resources:
  Solve the problem of high electrical energy consumption and electricity company bill fines by:

  Monthly follow-up and review of the maximum load values at the entire company level in implementation of the new law, which stipulates that meter zeroing reports be made every 3 months instead of a year.
  Monthly follow-up of electricity consumption bills for all stations, cranes and branches of the company.
  Completing the maintenance work on capacitor panels at the company’s cranes.
  An annual complex contract was made with the Alexandria Electricity Distribution Company to maintain (25) panels to improve the power factor, and the necessary procedures were completed.
  Follow up on the meter readings of Al Buhaira Electricity Distribution Company
  The installation of a solar energy system with a capacity of 60 KV has been completed. Watt.
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  8- The installation of 8 units to improve the medium voltage power factor of 11 kV was completed.

  9- Nearly 20 low-voltage power factor improvement panels were installed at the level of stations and major cranes, some of them self-effortlessly.

  In the field of providing better service to citizens

  1- Maintaining the efficiency and quality of water in tanks and maintaining the storage capacity in stations and cranes.

  2- Establishment of a 1000 m3 tank, an administrative and residential building, and laboratories in Al-Zohour village in order to increase the storage capacity of the Al-Zohour water station, which is implemented with a fiber membrane system, with a production capacity of 5500 m3/day.

  In the field of preserving existing civil facilities and electromechanical equipment:

  Completing field visits to a number of stations and cranes in the Alexandria, North Coast, and Southern region production sectors. The data of all electromechanical equipment was uploaded and counted, and their data was entered into the technical asset management program on the holding company’s website.

             K40 station     

                                            Jaraya kiln station                                                         

Al-Mansheya 1 and the car workshop

Margham levers

K21 levers

2- Completing the technical specifications data, technical evaluation, calculating the risk degree for special pumps for stations and cranes on the asset technical management program, and preparing a risk report on the ATM program for the sites included in the 2017/2018 replacement and renewal proposal based on the holding company’s request.

3- Rehabilitation and restoration of the company’s facilities at Al-Mansheya Station (1) and equipping an administrative and engineering branch at Al-Mansheya Station (2) in Abis.

5 - Completion of annual maintenance work for the company’s buildings and facilities for the year 2016/2017 (east, center, west, south of the city).

6- Completion of the runner work for a 700 mm diameter pipe next to Al-Huwahi Bridge above the Al-Nubaria Canal.

7- Maintenance, restoration and rehabilitation work on the company’s facilities at the Sharqi stations - K40 - West and South stations and risers - in addition to replacing and renewing the roofs of the tanks of the old Burj Al Arab coastal lifter, in order to raise the efficiency of the purification units at the risers and stations and increase water quality. The producer.

8- Follow up on file K29 of the attacked company’s land files, supported by documents supporting the ownership right.

In the field of establishing water projects:
1- Implementation of (works for the benefit of others) - construction works for the second phase of the expansion of the Al-Azab Water Station in Fayoum to produce about 240 thousand m3 / day. The National Authority provided a financial allocation within the plan for the fiscal year 2016/2017, but the disbursement faltered due to the difference in the percentage of supervision and administrative expenses due. Accordingly, the Fayoum Company was contacted to settle the contractor’s dues and to postpone the decision on the percentage of supervision and administrative expenses until the meeting with the Minister, Governor of Fayoum. Accordingly, the contractor was given a period of time for delaying the payment of his dues.

2- The company was assigned to prepare the final receipt notes for the Mansheya 2 station, which covers the service areas of the Abis villages. We were also provided with the value of spare parts, price differences for electromechanical equipment, and part of the value of the notes that will be deducted from the Arab Contractors.

3- The right part of the underground tank is being completed and the internal roads are being rehabilitated with a Margham lift.

5- The roofs of the old Burj Al Arab coastal lift tanks are being replaced and renovated

• In the field of reducing expenses and maximizing resources:
  Making designs for all the company’s facilities, which saves huge amounts of money that would otherwise be paid to consulting offices
  A design study is underway: 3 runners for a 1000 mm diameter pipe at the Delima Bank and the Abu Khalifa Canal in Borg El Arab - a meter workshop and an administrative building at the K40 station - an administrative building at the Margham lift - the walls of the Seyouf station - tanks with a capacity of 10,000 m3 and a pump house at the Kom Ombo lift - the roof of the pure water well at the Mansheya 1 station. – Tank with lift K58.
  Reducing losses in produced water, detecting leaks in networks, solving problems of low water pressure in some areas, and developing hydraulic solutions to solve these problems, which in turn provides the work of extending and constructing new cranes and network lines.
  In the field of development:
  Keeping pace with the global development in communications and information technology systems to improve performance and develop the service provided to customers in all of the company’s commercial branches by automating the commercial sector and linking the hotline and branches to GIS management.
  Preparing to purchase GPS devices to complete the car tracking system
  Participation of engineers from the sector in the Projects Performance Monitoring System (PPMS) committee
  Studying the improvement of the quality of produced water by using other alternatives to the chlorine currently used in stations.