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Housing Ministry monitors progress of New Qena projects

Businessmen Team news 24 August 2025 02:33 PM
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Housing Ministry monitors progress of New Qena projects

Engineer Sherif El Sherbiny, the Minister of Housing, Utilities, and Urban Communities, has been monitoring the residential projects, various services, and infrastructure work in the new city of Qena. This includes the development of land extensions and ongoing upgrade projects, with oversight conducted through field visits and project reports.

The Minister of Housing stressed the need to accelerate work on several key projects: two basic education schools with a total capacity of 75 classrooms, a model youth center on a 15-acre plot, 28 apartment buildings for the "Housing for All Egyptians" presidential initiative, a nursery, and a commercial market. He emphasized the importance of completing these projects quickly and continuing field visits to overcome any obstacles.

In the same vein, Engineer Yasser Abdullah Ramadan, the Head of the New Qena City Development Authority, along with other officials, inspected the construction of a 33-classroom basic education school in the services area of District 4 in the Second Residential Neighborhood. They also inspected the construction of a 42-classroom basic education school in the social housing land plots area in the Third Residential Neighborhood, noting the advanced completion rate. They also checked on operations at the Technology Center located at the Authority's headquarters.

Additionally, Ramadan and the other officials inspected the asphalt work in the tourist and recreational area of the Fourth Residential Neighborhood. He urged the contracting companies to increase their completion rates and ensure the work meets standard specifications.

Ramadan also inspected the ongoing infrastructure work (water, sanitation, irrigation, and graded roads) in the first phase of the city's eastern extension. He also checked on the landscaping work for the 28 apartment buildings, the nursery, and the commercial market in the eastern extensions area of the city. He stressed the importance of increasing the pace of work and adhering to standard specifications.

Furthermore, Engineer Yasser Abdullah Ramadan, along with Authority officials and contracting companies, followed up on the construction of the integrated 15-acre youth center in the services area of the First Residential Neighborhood. The project has reached an overall completion rate of 97%.

Ramadan explained that the youth center will feature a multi-purpose building with a conference hall, a multi-purpose room, waiting areas, reception lounges, a gym, a sauna, a steam room, locker rooms, administrative offices, cultural activity rooms, a restaurant, a cafeteria, a billiards hall, a table tennis hall, and storage rooms.

The center also includes a swimming pool area with an Olympic-sized pool, a diving pool with a depth of up to 10 meters, a children's pool, a grandstand building, locker rooms, athletics rooms, fitness rooms, storage, and restrooms.

He also noted that the center will have a football field area with a large pitch, grandstands, a radio room, a press conference hall, locker rooms, a medical unit, an ambulance entrance, a referees' room, fitness rooms, administrative offices, storage, and restrooms.

The center also includes a mosque, other fields with their facilities (two tennis courts, a triple court, and a five-a-side football field), a commercial shops building, a building for electrical rooms, a changing rooms building, 8 restrooms, service outlets, and security and entrance rooms.

Ramadan affirmed that the project is an integrated sports and cultural landmark that will serve the residents of New Qena City and its surrounding areas, enhancing the city's role as a comprehensive urban center. He noted that the ongoing work adheres to the highest quality standards and that the opening is expected soon.