Owner: Engineering Authority for Egyptian Armed Forces Lead Design Firm, Civil, Structural and MEP Engineer: Khatib & Alami General Contractor: JV Metito Overseas Limited—Hassan Allam Holding
The Egyptian government has long planned to settle more people and develop farmland in the sparsely populated and arid Sinai Peninsula. As part of that plan, and to address the growing threat of water scarcity, the government and its Engineering Authority for the Egyptian Armed Forces built one of the world’s largest water-reclamation plants on the eastern edge of the Suez Canal—and completed it in just one year.