Clinic Fit-Out and Design for Medical Towers in the New Capital

Clinic fit-out in the New Administrative Capital is the work of turning a clinic unit bought in one of the Capital's medical or mixed-use towers, often only 40 to 90 square metres, into a practice that is ready for its Ministry of Health inspection and for its first patients. NoVi Designs and Finishing designs and builds it as one team: we survey the unit, plan every room around your equipment, prepare the drawings the tower and the licence file need, then execute the MEP, finishes and joinery against an itemised BOQ agreed before work starts. Below is what is specific to clinics in the Capital.

Book a site survey Bring the unit plan and your equipment list, and the first visit will tell you how many treatment rooms the unit can really hold.

Key points for doctors buying or leasing in the Capital

• Typical unit: a small clinic on a medical floor of a mixed-use tower, frequently sold off-plan and on instalments, handed over core and shell, semi-finished or with a developer "medical finish".
• Licensing: private clinics in Egypt are licensed under Law 51 of 1981 on private medical establishments, through the Free Medical Treatment department of the Health Affairs Directorate, after an on-site inspection. The fit-out has to be ready for that inspection.
• Building use: confirm in writing that your building and unit are approved for medical use before you design anything.
• Budget: clinics are priced from a BOQ written after the survey, never from a rate per square metre.
• Proof: we show clinic and medical design work in our galleries, and we do not present it as work in the Capital.

Where clinic units are being sold in the Capital

Clinic space in the Capital is clustering in a few kinds of buildings, and the type of building decides much of the fit-out brief.

Medical floors in Downtown and MU23 towers

Most clinic listings sit in the Downtown area and the MU23 mixed-use zone, in towers that combine retail on the lower floors with administrative and medical floors above. Some towers are marketed as medical from the first floor up, with a dozen or so clinics per floor. Shared corridors, shared lifts and a single building management office mean your fit-out drawings, working hours and outdoor AC positions are all set by the tower.

Medical buildings near the residential districts

A second group of projects sits close to the residential districts, aimed at the families now moving into them. In 2021 a medical project in the R3 district was reported to have received the first building permit for a medical facility in the Capital, after close to two years of approvals involving the Ministry of Health. Listings also advertise clinic buildings near R6 and R7, including one presented as attached to a private hospital. A building planned for medical use from the start usually makes drainage, ventilation and patient access easier to solve.

Malls and commercial plazas

Some malls in the Capital sell very small clinic units, from around 20 square metres. These suit a single consultation room or an aesthetics practice, but leave little space for a sterilisation room, a plant cupboard or a second waiting area, so the plan has to be tested before you buy.

On the public side, the state's plans for the Capital include a Medical City of about 30 feddans with general, children's and women's hospitals of 300 beds each, as reported in 2022. Naming these areas tells you where our survey team goes. It does not mean we have built clinics there.

Planning a clinic in 40, 60 or 90 square metres

Clinic units in the Capital are mostly small. Listings we reviewed in 2026 ranged from about 20 to just under 100 square metres, with only a few larger medical-centre floors. In a unit this size, each wall and each door swing matters. As a planning guide, before any licensing requirement is checked:

• Around 40 m²: usually one consultation or treatment room, a compact reception and waiting area, a toilet and a small storage or sterilisation niche. A one-chair dental clinic can fit if the chair position, compressor and suction are fixed first.
• Around 60 m²: often two treatment rooms or one treatment room plus a procedure or X-ray room, with a separate sterilisation corner and a reception that can see the entrance.
• Around 90 m² and above: room for two or three doctors, a shared reception, a staff area and a proper clean and used instrument route.

We test the plan on paper first, with your real equipment drawn in, so you know what fits before you sign, and before you commit to a chair or device that the room cannot take.

Licensing: what the fit-out has to support

The licence is your application, not ours, and the requirements depend on the type of practice and can change. What we do is design and build the clinic so the file and the inspection go smoothly. Based on Ministry of Health practice and recent legal guides, expect the following to touch the fit-out:

• Engineering layout drawing: a plan of the clinic showing each room and its use, signed by a syndicate-registered engineer. We prepare it from the as-built layout, so the drawing matches what the inspector sees.
• Civil Defence approval: fire safety sign-off is part of the clinic licence file. In a tower, any change to sprinklers, smoke detectors or emergency lighting also has to go through the building's fire contractor.
• Medical waste: a contract with a licensed incinerator is required, and the clinic needs a sensible place to hold waste until collection.
• Equipment list: the file includes a statement of medical equipment, which we use to size circuits, water and drainage points.
• Dental and other X-ray units: under Law 7 of 2010, the Ministry of Health keeps its oversight of medical X-ray equipment, including premises licences. Room size, shielding and door positions should be agreed with the licensed supplier and the licensing requirements before walls are built.

If you plan to contract with the Universal Health Insurance system later, ask about accreditation by GAHAR, the General Authority for Healthcare Accreditation and Regulation, which publishes standards for private clinics. Designing for those standards from day one is cheaper than reworking later.

"Medical finish" from the developer: what to check

Many Capital clinics are sold "fully finished" or with a "medical finish". The phrase has no standard definition, and in practice it can mean tiles, paint, a basic ceiling, a toilet and AC points. What it rarely includes:

• A drain and water point in every treatment room, and floor boxes at the dental chair.
• Dedicated circuits for autoclaves, X-ray units and fridges, and a plan for backup power.
• Exhaust for the sterilisation room and a ventilated, sound-separated spot for the compressor and suction unit.
• Easy-clean wall and floor finishes in clinical rooms, and acoustic privacy between consultation rooms.

At the survey we record what was actually handed over, keep what is sound and price only the gap, so you do not pay twice for the same tiles.

Building services in a new medical tower

New towers in the Capital are still being connected and occupied floor by floor, and a clinic asks more of the building than an office does. Before the design is frozen we check:

• Power: the load allocated to your unit, and whether it covers your equipment, AC and water heater.
• Drainage stacks: where they are, because a dental or procedure room far from a stack needs a raised floor or a longer run.
• Cooling: central system, VRF or split units, and where the tower lets you place outdoor units.
• Exhaust routes: whether the façade or a shaft can take extract air from sterilisation and toilets.
• Medical gases: most small clinics use portable cylinders, while piped gases need a specialist installer and the building's agreement.

How patients will reach your clinic

A clinic in a new city has to be easy to find. The East Nile Monorail now links Nasr City and New Cairo with the Capital, and the LRT from Adly Mansour has served it since July 2022, while most patients from the residential districts will still drive. That shapes the brief: clear signage from the lift lobby, a reception that sees the door, a waiting area sized for families, step-free access and a toilet usable by a wheelchair user where the unit allows.

Dust, sun and infection control

The Capital sits in open desert, with construction still active around many towers. For a clinic that is a hygiene issue, not only a comfort one. We specify sealed ceilings in clinical rooms, washable wall finishes, coved or tightly jointed floors, door seals and AC filters reachable without lifting tiles. Solar film or blinds keep treatment rooms on glazed façades usable in the afternoon. Upholstery and equipment go in last and stay covered until the deep clean.

What our clinic scope covers

• Test layout and design: layouts with your equipment drawn to scale, a design concept and 3D views of the reception and a treatment room.
• Licensing drawings: the layout drawing for your licence file, plus the MEP and fire drawings the tower asks for.
• MEP works: circuits and sockets at each device, lighting, water and drainage, ventilation and AC, data for booking and imaging systems.
• Clinical finishes: hygienic flooring, washable walls, cleanable ceilings, hand-wash stations and sealed joinery.
• Joinery and furniture: reception counters, treatment-room cabinets and waiting furniture made to measure. See our corporate and commercial design and build service.
• Specialist coordination: X-ray shielding and piped gases carried out by licensed specialists and built into our drawings and schedule.
• Handover: a joint snag walk, system tests and as-built drawings for your file and your maintenance team.

From survey to first patient

1. Survey: measured layout, handover condition, service points, drainage stacks and the tower's fit-out rules.
2. Test layout: rooms and equipment planned to scale, checked against your licensing requirements.
3. Design and BOQ: concept, finishes and an itemised BOQ, with the drawings the tower and the licence file need.
4. Building approval and early orders: the tower reviews our drawings while imported finishes, sanitary ware and special doors with long lead times are placed on order.
5. Execution: works scheduled within the tower's hours, with equipment delivery agreed with your supplier.
6. Handover: we close the snag list together, hand over the as-built set and leave the clinic ready for the inspector.

What decides the cost of a Capital clinic

We do not publish a price per square metre, because the main costs in a clinic are services, not area. What moves the BOQ:

• The handover condition, and how much of the developer finish can stay.
• The number of wet rooms, and their distance from the drainage stacks.
• Electrical upgrades, UPS and backup power for sensitive equipment.
• X-ray shielding, compressor and suction plant, and any piped gases.
• The finish level in reception and the amount of made-to-measure joinery.
• Tower rules on working hours and deliveries, and the drive from Cairo.

Our clinic design references

To be straightforward: this page does not show a New Capital clinic project, and we will not present design work as if it had been built there. As design references, you can review our medical design work in the dental clinic design, medical centre design, pharmacy design and beauty centre design galleries. Behind them is the same design and build team, part of NoVi Holding, working under an ISO 9001 certified quality management system for finishing and decoration works.

Built commercial work, outside the Capital

We have no clinic project in the New Administrative Capital, and no clinic case study yet. What we can show is commercial design and build work elsewhere in Egypt:

• Qatari Diar VIP Sales Office: a 330 m² design and build renovation with reception, lounges and meeting rooms, the same sequence a clinic needs from the lift lobby to the consultation room.
• The Community Center, New Cairo: design and build including MEP and furniture, under construction.

More from NoVi

• Clinic and dental fit-out in Cairo, for practices in Cairo, New Cairo and Sheikh Zayed
• Office fit-out in the New Capital, for admin units in the CBD and business towers
• Moving the family east as well? Read about apartment finishing in the Capital's residential districts or turnkey villa and twin house finishing there
• Want the design fixed before anything is built? See our interior design service, run from Cairo
• MEP works for clinics and commercial units

Book a survey of your clinic unit

Send us the tower name, the unit area, your speciality and the date you want to open. That is enough to plan the visit. Book a site survey and your BOQ will be priced on the unit as handed over, with your equipment in the plan.

Reach us on WhatsApp or by phone at +20 106 778 8687, or on the landlines +20 2 2749 8958 and +20 2 2749 8978, from Sunday to Thursday between 10:00 and 18:00 Cairo time. Capital surveys are planned from our Egypt office at Bavaria Town Towers, Kattameya Road, Tower 3, 9th Floor, Unit 91, Cairo.

Our survey team drives out to the Capital's towers. Most buildings register visitors in advance, so a few days' notice helps us get the pass.

Opening a clinic in West Cairo? See clinic fit-out in Sheikh Zayed for Giza licensing, medical malls on the 26th of July Corridor and New Zayed units.