Hill International: ‘ongoing talks’ to manage Egypt’s new capital city project

The U.S. project management firm Hill International is still in ongoing negotiations with the Egyptian Armed Forces Engineering Authority to take part in the country’s new administrative capital city project.

Hill International is still negotiating with the Egyptian Armed Forces Engineering Authority on the possibility of partaking in managing the development of the new capital city, said senior vice president and North Africa regional manager Waleed Abdel-Fattah told Amwal Al Ghad on Wednesday.

Abdel-Fattah further said Hill International enjoys a wide expertise in how to manage the development of mega projects.

The proposed new capital of Egypt is a large-scale project announced by Egyptian housing minister Mostafa Madbouly at the Egypt Economic Development Conference held in Sharm El-Sheikh on 13 March 2015.

The new, yet-unnamed city is to be located 45 kilometres (28 miles) east of Cairo and just outside the Second Greater Cairo Ring Road in a currently largely undeveloped area halfway to the seaport city of Suez.

Egyptian authorities plan to make the new city become the country’s new administrative and financial capital, housing the main government departments and ministries, as well as foreign embassies.

Work has already begun on a 270-square-mile tract of army-owned land that would house as many as 5 million people when completed in 2021, though it is estimated that the figure could rise to seven million.