4 contractors to deliver infrastructure flagships in Egypt new capital June-end

Four Egyptian construction companies plan to complete delivering some giant infrastructure projects in the country’s new capital at the end of June 2020, said a source on Saturday.

At a cost of around 800 million Egyptian pounds ($49.7 million), the projects will include a bunch of irrigation and sanitations networks as well as electricity grids, the official source in one of these firms told Amwal Al Ghad.

“The current accomplishment rates of the infrastructure flagships approached 80 percent,” he said.

Located 45km (28 miles) east of Cairo over 170,000 feddans, the under construction new capital city is part of the Egyptian government’s plan to expand urban areas to deal with the rapid population growth and improve the nation’s infrastructure.

The new city is set to be a 270-square-mile hub with 21 residential districts to accommodate five million people. It will feature 1,250 mosques and churches as well as 5,000-seat conference centre, nearly 2,000 schools and colleges, over 600 medical facilities, and a park that is projected to be the world’s largest.