Office Fit-Out in the New Administrative Capital, Egypt

Office fit-out in the New Administrative Capital means turning an administrative unit in one of the Capital's towers, whether handed over core and shell, semi-finished or with a basic developer finish, into an office your team can work in from day one. At NoVi Designs and Finishing a single design and build team carries the whole job, from the survey, space plan and MEP design through tower approvals to finishing, joinery and furniture, and all of it is priced line by line in a BOQ before work begins. This page covers what is specific to the Capital: its business districts, how admin units are actually delivered, tower rules, building services in a new city and how your staff will get there.

Book a site survey The first visit is about facts: what was actually handed over in your unit, and which parts the tower lets you touch.

At a glance

• Who it is for: companies that bought or leased an administrative unit, a full floor or a small office in a New Capital tower, and companies relocating teams from Cairo to be near the Government District.
• Typical starting point: a developer-finished, semi-finished or core and shell unit. A listing that says "fully finished" usually still needs a tenant fit-out to become a working office.
• First check: the tower's fit-out rules, the electrical load allocated to your unit, the cooling system and whether your utilities and telecom lines are live.
• Price: no price lists. The quote comes as an itemised BOQ, built from the survey and the agreed design.
• Getting there: the East Nile Monorail and the LRT now link the Capital with East Cairo, so more of your staff may arrive by public transport, and the office should be planned to receive them.

Where we work in the Capital's business districts

The Capital's office stock sits in a few distinct areas, and each one shapes a fit-out differently.

The Central Business District

The CBD was built by the Chinese contractor CSCEC for the Ministry of Housing. According to the ministry, its ten administrative towers cover about 806,000 square metres built-up, with heights between 80 and 175 metres. Its landmark is the Iconic Tower, reported by the Ministry of Housing at nearly 400 metres, with around 40 office floors. High-rise floors mean central building systems, strict building management, booked goods lifts and long vertical logistics, so the programme is planned around the tower, not the other way round.

Downtown and the mixed-use business plots

Many private-developer office buildings sit in the Downtown area and in the mixed-use (MU) plots along the Capital's main axes, such as the MU23 investment zone off the Al-Amal Axis, where many developers market administrative projects. Many are mid-rise business complexes with offices above retail or medical units. Units are often small, so every square metre of layout counts, and the developer's after-sales or facility team usually controls fit-out approvals. Fitting out one of those medical units instead? Our clinic fit-out page for the Capital covers licensing drawings and clinic services.

Around the Government District

The Government District houses the ministries, the cabinet and the House of Representatives, and the cabinet held its first meeting there in December 2021. Consultancies, contractors, banks and service companies that deal with government often want an office within easy reach of it. For these clients, meeting rooms, a presentable reception and secure document storage usually matter more than a large open floor.

We list these districts to show where we will send a surveyor. The list says nothing about past projects there, and it should not be read that way.

"Fully finished" in a Capital listing is not a ready office

Many New Capital office listings advertise units as fully finished, while ground-floor commercial units are often delivered core and shell and some admin projects are semi-finished. In practice the words mean different things from one developer to another:

• Developer-finished: often floor tiles, painted walls, a basic ceiling, a toilet and sometimes AC units or central cooling outlets. Useful, but not planned around your teams, meeting rooms, data or brand. Part of it can usually be kept, part has to be changed.
• Semi-finished: plaster, glazing and basic utility points, with ceilings, floors, partitions and MEP distribution still to do.
• Core and shell: structure, facade and building services up to the unit. Everything inside is yours to design, which gives the most freedom and the most scope.

Our survey puts the unit as it really stands on a measured drawing and marks every item worth keeping. That protects you twice: sound work is not ripped out and billed, and a duct hidden above the developer's ceiling shows up before the layout is fixed, not after.

Tower rules and approvals in a new city

In the Capital, many towers are still run by the developer or its appointed facility management company, and rules differ from one building to the next. We have not found a single official fit-out code that covers all Capital towers, so read the list below as a general picture of what managed office buildings tend to ask for, not as the rule for your tower:

• Drawing approval: layout, ceiling, MEP and fire drawings submitted to tower management, and sometimes reviewed by the developer's consultant.
• Fire and life safety: moving a sprinkler head, adding a smoke detector or shifting an emergency light usually touches the tower's central system, so the building's fire contractor and civil defence requirements both come into it.
• Contractor registration: company documents, insurance, a named site supervisor and worker lists for gate passes.
• Working hours and access: drilling and cutting kept to fixed hours, the service lift reserved in advance, deliveries in agreed slots and rubble taken wherever the building tells you. In occupied towers, noisy works are often pushed outside office hours.
• Deposit: many buildings hold a sum against damage to lobbies, lifts and corridors and return it after a final inspection.

Because the rules vary and can change, we ask for the current fit-out manual at the survey, prepare the drawing set the building asks for and build the approval time into the schedule.

Building services in a city that is still filling up

A new tower has new systems, but that does not mean your unit is ready to plug into them. Utilities and services in the Capital have been connected area by area, so these checks come before design is frozen:

• Electrical load: what capacity is allocated to your unit, and whether it covers your workstations, server rack, pantry and any extra cooling.
• Cooling: central chilled water, VRF or split units, and where the tower allows outdoor units or tie-ins. Meeting rooms and server rooms need their own zones.
• Telecom and internet: which providers already serve the building and how fibre reaches your floor. A late line can delay a move-in more than any finishing item.
• Backup power: what the building generator covers, and what needs a UPS on your side.
• Meters and handover: permanent meters, service charges and the handover letter, which some buildings require before a fit-out permit is issued.

Designing for how your team gets to the Capital

For most companies, moving to the Capital is first a commuting question. The East Nile Monorail completed its full 56.5 km line on 27 June 2026, running from Cairo Stadium in Nasr City through New Cairo to the Capital, with an interchange to Metro Line 3. The electric LRT from Adly Mansour has served the Capital since 3 July 2022.

That has practical effects on the office brief:

• Arrivals in waves: when staff arrive on the same trains or company buses, reception, lifts and the pantry see peaks. A larger waiting area and a pantry sized for the morning rush help.
• Long days on site: staff who commute far tend to stay put at lunchtime, so a proper kitchenette, a place to eat and a prayer room are worth planning in from the start.
• Lockers and storage: hybrid teams and staff who travel by public transport need somewhere to leave laptops and personal items.
• Visitors from Cairo: clients who drive out for a meeting expect it to happen on time, in a room with working AV. Meeting rooms near reception keep them out of the work floor.

Sun, glass and dust

Capital towers are largely glass, set in open desert with construction still going on around many plots. We plan for it in the details: solar control film or blinds on exposed facades, cooling zoned by orientation, sealed ceilings, entrance mats, washable wall finishes and AC filters that facility staff can reach without dismantling the ceiling. Desks, joinery and upholstered pieces go in at the very end, wrapped and covered until the keys change hands.

What sits inside the scope

• Test fits and space planning that put real numbers on the plan: desks, meeting rooms, a server cupboard, a pantry. Useful before you buy or lease, and essential before design starts.
• Office interior design: a design concept and 3D views first, then material samples and detailed shop drawings, with the company identity showing where visitors actually look.
• MEP and light current: HVAC zones, lighting and power layouts, structured cabling, access control and CCTV, with any fire alarm or firefighting changes coordinated with the tower. Where the brief calls for smart controls, we integrate them through HDL, our smart office partner.
• Finishing works: drywall and glazed partitions, sound insulation where privacy matters, suspended ceilings, raised access or finished floors, toilets and pantries.
• Joinery and furniture: made-to-measure reception counters, boardroom tables and storage walls, plus workstations and loose furniture, all placed against the floor box and cable layout so no desk ends up on an extension lead.
• Documented handover: a joint snag walk, system tests, as-built drawings for your facility team and a defects period after move-in.

Six steps from survey to move-in

1. Survey: measurements, photos of the handover condition, a check of each service point, and the tower's fit-out manual with the names of the people in building management who sign off.
2. Test fit and design: layout options, concept, 3D visuals and material selection, agreed with your team.
3. BOQ and drawings: an itemised BOQ and the shop drawings the tower needs for approval, so price and permit move together.
4. Approvals and ordering: drawings submitted to building management, and long-lead items such as glass partitions, imported furniture and VRF units ordered right after sign-off.
5. Execution: materials delivered in planned batches to match the tower's delivery windows, with scheduled site supervision and progress updates.
6. Handover: we walk the office with you, close the snag items, hand over the as-built set and stay on call through the defects period while your team settles in.

How to choose an office fit-out contractor in the Capital

Distance, tower rules and new-city services make a weak contractor more expensive here than in town. Before you sign, check that the contractor:

• Visits the unit and reads the tower's fit-out manual before quoting, instead of pricing from a floor plan.
• Gives an itemised BOQ by space and trade, with brands and specifications named, not a lump sum or a price per square metre.
• Designs MEP in-house or with a named engineer, and prepares the fire and MEP drawings the tower will ask for.
• Can register with tower management, carry the required insurance and name a site supervisor who will actually be on site.
• Has a clear plan for delivering materials to the Capital and for working within set hours.
• States what is excluded, such as furniture, IT equipment, developer fees or service charges.
• Links each payment to a finished stage, and puts as-built drawings and a defects period in writing.
• Shows real office work you can look at, not renders presented as completed projects.

Why we will not quote a price per metre

There is no NoVi price list for offices, and a per-metre figure would mislead you here. What actually moves the BOQ is the handover condition, the share of enclosed rooms and glass partitions, acoustic targets, HVAC and electrical changes, data, AV and access control, furniture and joinery specification, night or weekend working required by the tower and the logistics of a high-rise floor.

What we can show you

We would rather be plain about this. We do not present a New Capital office project here, because we are not going to show you one we have not built. What we can show is our office and corporate work in our corporate office design gallery, and partition and booth work in our partition and booth design gallery. Behind them is the same delivery system we bring to the Capital:

• One accountable design and build team, part of NoVi Holding, for design, MEP, finishing, joinery and furniture.
• An ISO 9001 certified quality management system covering our finishing and decoration works.
• Scope, itemised BOQ and schedule agreed in writing before anyone starts on site.
• Execution in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, with documented handover.

For the full scope, see our corporate and commercial design and build services.

Commercial case studies you can open

None of these is in the New Capital. They show how we plan and deliver commercial space elsewhere in Cairo:

• Qatari Diar VIP Sales Office: a design and build renovation of a 330 m² sales office in a contemporary style, inside and out, with reception, lounges and meeting rooms.
• The Community Center, New Cairo: design and build covering architecture, fit-out, MEP, FF&E, landscape and a pool, under construction.
• Palm Hills Katameya Mixed Use, New Cairo: architectural design for 58,000 m² BUA with 142 retail units and 132 offices.

Related pages

• Office fit-out in Cairo
• Interior design in Cairo
• Clinic fit-out and retail store fit-out
• Clinic fit-out in the New Capital
• Apartment finishing in the New Capital
• Villa finishing in the New Capital
• Sales centre, show unit and clubhouse fit-out for developers
• Factory, warehouse and cold storage renovation in Egypt

Start with a survey of your unit

Tell us the tower name, the floor, roughly how many square metres and when you hope to move in. That is enough to fix a survey date. Book a site survey and the BOQ that follows will be priced on the unit as it stands, not on a brochure plan.

• Call or WhatsApp: +20 106 778 8687
• Landlines: +20 2 2749 8958 and +20 2 2749 8978
• Office: Bavaria Town Towers, Kattameya Road, Tower 3, 9th Floor, Unit 91, Cairo
• Hours: Sunday to Thursday, 10:00 to 18:00 Cairo time

We work across the New Capital's business districts. Most towers want visitor names in advance, so a few days' notice lets us arrange the gate pass before the survey.