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Egypt marks progress on new admin capital

01 July 2019

Work is progressing at a steady pace on Egypt’s New Administrative Capital project with nearly 70 per cent of the infrastructure already completed, said a report.

All the construction work of the first phase of the new capital, including facilities and infrastructure, is set for completion in the first half of 2020, reported Mubasher, citing the city’s spokesman Khaled Al Husseini.

Already 60 to 70 per cent of the facilities and infrastructure works in Phase One has been completed, stated Al Husseini.

“Work on the water networks in the new capital is now almost 95 per cent over, while about 30 per cent of the sewage system work has been finalised,” he added.

Meanwhile, Egypt has spent nearly E£22 billion ($1.31 billion) on Phase One of its ambitious New El Alamein City project since last June, excluding the costs of sewage, water, and wastewater treatment plants, said a Mubasher report.

One of the new-generation millennium cities coming up on the north coast, the New El Alamein City is spread over a 202-million-sq-m area.

Some of the projects in Phase One are likely to be opened this month, while the majority of them will be inaugurated in mid-2020, stated New Alamein Government Office chairman Osama Abdul Ghany.

The first phase of the project covers an area of 24,000 acres, while both the second and third phases spread over more than 12,000 acres, said the report.

New El Alamein City is being designed to accommodate more than three million inhabitants by the end of Phase One, it added.