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Before the company had time to digest this win, Protec was called on to receive its second award of the night for ‘Best Event Video Solution’ for the prestigious Dubai Canal Opening Ceremony. Protec delivered this show whilst battling the coastal winds, dust from the building works and the fact that this was a construction site with hundreds of people working together around the clock everyone from building construction companies to labourers, carpenters, stonemasons... but a bit of quick thinking from the company’s experienced and technically skilled personnel, helped overcome most of these challenges to deliver this award winning video solution.
It wasn’t long before Protec’s wins went to number three with the award for “Best Temporary Venue or Structure’ for the IDEX 2017 Opening Ceremony. The IDEX opening ceremony watched by a 25,000 live audience across five days and millions via a live televised broadcast broke all records with the highest recorded visitor count, thanks to the spectacular show that was repeated on all five days of the expo. Converting a flat, tarmac car park into what was to become a stunning mountain scenic set with landscaping, waterfalls, road networks, a railway track with a custom built functional train was built, a submarine in the temporary water feature and many more interesting structures, was no simple task. Protec’s staging department rose to the occasion once more to deliver a scenic staging set that ‘came alive’ for this truly one-of-a-kind show and what the media has already termed as the mother of all productions.