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- Grand Museum Now Scheduled For 2015
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) The roar of bulldozers, trucks and rock-crushers will soon be heard again on the Giza plateau as construction work is resumed following a year's hiatus. On Tuesday, at a gala ceremony in the administration building...
- New Phase Of Egyptian Museum Development Project
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- Firms Vie To Build Egypt's $550 Mln Museum
Yahoo News Forty companies are vying to build the final phase of Egypt's new $550 million museum which will showcase the largest collection of pharaonic treasures in the world, the project's supervisor said on Monday. These firms submitted pre-bid...
- The Monumental Museum Of Egypt Is Taking Shape
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- Update On The Grand Egyptian Museum
State Information Service In the first field trip to the Grand Egyptian Museum, Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni inspected on Tuesday 17/7/2007 the second phase which is due to be completed by the end of this year. The phase includes setting up a power...
Egypt
Museum: Grand Egyptian Museum
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Hill International (NYSE:HIL - News), the global leader in managing construction risk, announced today that a joint venture between Hill and EHAF Consulting Engineers has received a contract from the Ministry of Culture's Supreme Council of Antiquities of the Arab Republic of Egypt to provide project management services during the design and construction of the Grand Egyptian Museum.
The five-year contract has an estimated value to the Hill/EHAF joint venture of approximately $50.0 million. Hill has a 70% interest in the joint venture and EHAF has a 30% interest.
The Grand Egyptian Museum, which has a total estimated project cost of approximately $550 million, will be the largest and most important Pharaonic museum in the world, the largest museum in Egypt and one of the leading scientific, historical and archaeological study centers on the globe. The museum's twenty-first century galleries will be located in an iconic and distinctive building located where Cairo meets the desert, abutting the Giza Pyramids world heritage site. The museum, designed by Heneghan Peng Architects, Ove Arup, Buro Happold and others, will cover 3,500 years of ancient Egyptian history and house more than 100,000 artifacts.
"With the selection of a project manager, we have achieved yet another milestone in the development of the Grand Egyptian Museum," said Farouk Hosny, Egypt's Minister of Culture.
- Grand Museum Now Scheduled For 2015
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) The roar of bulldozers, trucks and rock-crushers will soon be heard again on the Giza plateau as construction work is resumed following a year's hiatus. On Tuesday, at a gala ceremony in the administration building...
- New Phase Of Egyptian Museum Development Project
drhawass.com With photos. Today, Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), inaugurated the new Development Project of the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square. Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosny announced that the project’s...
- Firms Vie To Build Egypt's $550 Mln Museum
Yahoo News Forty companies are vying to build the final phase of Egypt's new $550 million museum which will showcase the largest collection of pharaonic treasures in the world, the project's supervisor said on Monday. These firms submitted pre-bid...
- The Monumental Museum Of Egypt Is Taking Shape
World Architecture News The Grand Museum of Egypt’s design team, consisting of international multi disciplinary engineering consultancy Buro Happold, architects Hparc and Arup, has completed the submission of 5000 drawings to form the construction documentation...
- Update On The Grand Egyptian Museum
State Information Service In the first field trip to the Grand Egyptian Museum, Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni inspected on Tuesday 17/7/2007 the second phase which is due to be completed by the end of this year. The phase includes setting up a power...