Hill - EHAF joint venture secures $50 million contract for the Grand Egyptian Museum

Published: 04-Feb-2010

A joint venture of US-based Hill International and EHAF Consulting Engineers has received a contract to provide project management services during the design and construction of the Grand Egyptian Museum.

The joint venture received the contract from the Ministry of Culture's Supreme Council of Antiquities of the Arab Republic of Egypt. The five-year contract has an estimated value of $50 million to the Hill/EHAF joint venture. Hill has a 70% interest in the joint venture and EHAF has a 30% interest.

The Grand Egyptian Museum, which has a project cost of an estimated $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 a 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.

Hill International, with 2,300 employees in 80 offices worldwide, provides program management, project management, construction management and construction claims and consulting services.

EHAF Consulting Engineers, with 800 employees in seven offices throughout the Middle East and North Africa region, provides architectural, engineering and management services.

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