UK consultant Turner & Townsend has acquired Egypt-based cost management and quantity surveying firm, ValueMetric Consultants (VMC), for an undisclosed sum. It lets Turner & Townsend move into Egypt’s growing…

Egypt’s Arab Contractors has teamed up with China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) to jointly bid for work in Egypt and the rest of Africa. Egyptian prime minister Mostafa Madbouly…

Egypt and France have signed a €7bn agreement to develop a green hydrogen and ammonia complex near Ras Shokeir on the Red Sea coast, Arab News reports.  It will be…

Egyptian contractor Orascom will build a 67-acre expansion for the American University in Cairo. Orascom will build five buildings, an underground service tunnel, infrastructure and landscaping. The Campus 2026 project…

Californian architect Gensler has teamed up with UK consulting engineer Buro Happold to design a 45,000-seat stadium for the Al-Ahly Football Club in Cairo. The stadium is on the approach…

Egypt’s General Authority for Investment (GAFI) will commission Polish energy company Hynfra to build a green ammonia plant, local media report. The plan is to produce ammonia for export to…

A team made up of Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and Italian practice Andrea Tabocchini Architecture has redesigned a gallery in Turin’s Egyptian Museum. The new “Gallery of…

China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) is to examine the business case for building an industrial zone in New Alamein City, a mega development on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast that may…

A consortium made up of Egyptian contractor Orascom Construction, Bouygues subsidiary Colas Rail and Japanese engineer Hitachi has been chosen to modernise Cairo’s Metro Line 1. The €800m deal will…

Egypt has unveiled plans to invest $21bn in a huge tourist resort on the Mediterranean coast, business website Zawya reports. The so-called “SouthMed” scheme will be developed by the government…

France’s Egis will be the lead consultant for the Abou Qir Metro line in Alexandria, Egypt. It’s a 22km-long route running from the city’s Misr Station to Abu Qir, a…

Russian president Vladimir Putin and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel al-Sisi attended a virtual ceremony to mark the beginning of construction at the fourth and final reactor for the $25bn El…

China State Construction Engineering Company (CSCEC) yesterday handed over the first three buildings of the $3bn central business district of Egypt’s New Administrative Capital, local news sites reported.  Prime Minister…

Egypt has declared the latest round of talks with Ethiopia over the latter’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on a tributary of the Nile River to be over without agreement.…

Some things take longer than expected. Next year sees the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum on the Giza Plateau outside Cairo. It’s 22 years since Egypt’s then-president Hosni Mubarak…

The December edition of the 21CC podcast is now live, featuring stories about refugees working in UK construction, the logistical challenges of the site Christmas lunch, and the epic project…

First conceived in 1992, the world’s biggest museum is expected to open this year. GCR’s David Rogers got the chance to take a look. The scale of Grand Egyptian Museum’s…

The Egyptian Ministry of Transport has chosen a joint venture of French consulting engineers Egis and Setec to work on the design of the second phase of Cairo Metro Line…