EGA just is the MK trade name for plastic conduit.
As for cheaper? I don't think there is much in it.
It's no quicker than trunking.
Safer? I don't think there is much difference in conduit or trunking.
Both conduit and trunking look awful IMHO. They are both used for add on to existing installs where you are not allowed to damage the walls and ceilings.
The actual choice of what is used in the places you mention probably comes down to nothing more than what the architect chooses.
Steel conduit done properly actually looks good in some places. And it's a work of art to fit it.
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has it fitted on their lighting. The tour guide said it was unique. Unique my arse. I had done the same in a pub 10 months before Spirit of Yorkshire had opened.
No, it is a direct replacement for steel conduit. Like the steel you can buy a range of accessories such as 1, 2, 3 and 4 way boxes, lids, elbows bends and fixing saddles. Instead of threading, the parts are just glued together. Usually in white, but black is available too.
Kopex was the spiral steel flexible conduit stuff, sometimes plastic covered, often used as the final section from rigid conduit or steel trunking to the likes of smaller motors.
I probably have the dies around somewhere for 3/4" imperial :oÞ
I used to be a bit of an artist at forming and bending tube. I would get often get through bundles of it a day. Biggest size I used was I think 1 1/2" - several runs and all done with manual made bends - now that took some muscle and technique, to get it to bend at all.
Kopex also make a rather nice all plastic tube with waterproof glands that I used to take my meter tails from the box outside over the wallplater under the roof and directly into the CU.
It is not officially "mechanical protection" (but my route does not demand it) but in reality the stuff is fecking tough and black (so should be UV resistant for outside exposure).
It's also expensive... But in certain scenarios, quite useful.
If you want something lighter to give some scuff protection to small cables running in a splintery crappy environment, Electroflex is nice stuff.
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