Where the pools are going in across the Capital
The New Administrative Capital sits about 45 km east of Cairo, just outside the Regional Ring Road, on the way to Suez. Its first phase holds the Government District, the Central Business District around the Iconic Tower, and the first residential districts. R3 mixes apartments, villas and townhouses. R7 and R8 lie between the Cairo Suez and Cairo Ain Sokhna roads and are mostly residential compounds and mixed-use projects. Several compound listings in the Capital include indoor or rooftop pools. The city was planned with 40,000 hotel rooms, among them five-star hotels inside towers in the business district.
So the pools here go into four kinds of place: villa gardens, compound pools shared by residents, roofs and indoor halls on the towers, and hotels and clubs. Every one of them is a new build. All of the New Administrative Capital is inside the area we cover from our Nasr City office.
Villa pools in R3, drawn in with the house
On a villa still under construction, the pool belongs on the drawings before the slab and the garden walls are poured. Our structural engineer hands your architect the pool loads, the depth, the wall thickness and the movement joints, in writing. The drainage falls, the power supply and the backwash discharge go onto the same set of drawings. The pool then rises with the house, on the house's own programme, and no finished floor or wall gets broken out a year later. If the villa has already been handed over, the first visit settles access, levels and the plant room position before you see a price.
Rooftop and indoor pools on the towers
Dense building puts a lot of the Capital's water on roofs and inside buildings. Water, tile and plant on a roof slab add tonnes to the structure, so our structural engineer works out the load with the building's own engineer before anything gets quoted. The waterproofing goes on as a full layered system from Sika or BASF Master Builders Solutions, and the fall to every outlet gets tested. An indoor pool hall needs its dehumidification, ventilation and heating sized with the building's MEP consultant, so the glass stays clear and the paint stays on the walls. Our page on pools for roofs and indoor halls sets out how a slab gets assessed.
Shared compound pools in R7 and R8
A compound pool gets used by the whole compound, and one management answers for it. We size the filtration, the circulation and the dosing to the number of residents who will swim in it, then keep the water balanced on a fixed visit day. The readings go in writing to one named contact after every visit. A fault gets traced to its cause and fixed once, and any shutdown is booked into your quietest weeks. Indoor compound pools get the same air handling checks as a hotel hall.
Hotel and club pools in a city still opening
A hotel or club pool that shuts means complaints every day, and somebody in management answers for every reading. For a hotel or club still being built, the pool, the plant room and the dosing get sized to the guest or member numbers, on drawings your consultants can check line by line. Once it opens, readings are logged on every visit for your inspection file, and work that closes the pool is planned around your season. Our hotel, club and compound pool construction also covers lagoons, children's pools and competition pools.
Building alongside the developer and the main contractor
On a building still under construction, the site belongs to the main contractor. We coordinate with the developer and the main contractor on site from the design stage, instead of arriving after handover. The loads, openings and sleeves the pool needs reach the main contractor in writing. Our dates come off his programme, and our programme shows the weeks we need the excavation open, the concrete pump on his access road and the crane.
The plant room gets its size, its floor drain and its three-phase supply on the drawings before the block walls go up. That way the pumps, filters and control panel go into a room built for them, with space to service them and to lift a pump out years from now. The equipment is Hayward, Pentair, AstralPool or Aqua Water Systems, with Schneider Electric automation, so the spare you need is on a shelf in Cairo.
Call or WhatsApp +20 102 626 1818 and we will book a site meeting with your architect or your main contractor.
Why people building in the Capital choose us
- Founded in 2001, and run from one office in Nasr City ever since.
- Structural, hydraulic and MEP engineers on our own staff, so the loads, the pipework and the power come from the people who sign them off.
- Site teams on our own payroll, from the excavation to commissioning.
- Five stages on every job: consultation, design and engineering, construction, equipment and finishing, commissioning and handover.
- A 90-day programme for a standard residential build, written into the quotation.
- Rooftop, indoor and larger custom pools get their own programme, in writing, before you sign.
- Milestone payments, or a deposit and six monthly instalments against post-dated cheques.
- A written warranty on every pool we build: 25 years on the structure, 10 on the waterproofing, 5 on the electromechanical works.
- Commercial terms for developers, hotels, clubs and compound managements, with one contractor answerable for the whole pool.
- After handover, maintenance visits by one regular team, with readings written down for you.
Pools another contractor built
If your villa or your compound came with a pool from another contractor, we take it on as it stands. The first visit covers the water, the shell, the tiling, the pipework and the plant room, and you get all of it back on paper, part by part, marked sound, urgent, or able to wait. Pools in the Capital are young, so if a fault is still covered by whoever built it, you hear that from us first. Repairs to another company's pool carry a warranty term agreed for that job and written on the quote.
How the price of a pool in the Capital is decided
A villa pool in R3, an indoor pool in an R7 compound and a pool on top of a tower are three different jobs. Excavation or slab, the edge detail, the finish, the plant, crane access on a live site and the main contractor's site rules all move the figure, and only a visit to the site shows them. So we price after the visit, from our own rate book. The visit costs you nothing, and neither does the written quote that follows, with dates on it and every item on its own line. Developers, hotels, clubs and compound managements get commercial terms, set out on our page for developers and commercial projects.
Buyers we would send to someone else
If the building is finished and furnished and you want a pool cut into it next month, another contractor will suit you better. If the structural engineer will not release the building's design, we will turn the job down, because we refuse to guess a slab load. And if the lowest quote decides it, a cheaper company will win.
Reaching our office from the New Administrative Capital
We come to the site for every survey and every meeting. If you would rather handle the tile, the coping stone and the pumps yourself before choosing, book a time at the office.
We are at 15 El-Lewaa Mahmoud Samy Basha, Al Mintaqah as Sādisah, in Nasr City, just off Abbas El-Akkad.
- From the Iconic Tower or the Central Business District: make your way to the Cairo Suez Road towards Cairo, then pick up Abbas El-Akkad in Nasr City.
- From R7, R8 or Al Masa Hotel: head for the Cairo Suez Road towards Cairo, then Nasr City and Abbas El-Akkad.
- From the Al-Fattah Al-Aleem Mosque, the Cathedral of the Nativity or Egypt International Olympic City: pick up the Cairo Suez Road towards Cairo and follow it to Nasr City and Abbas El-Akkad.
Ring +20 102 626 1818 when you are close and we will guide you in. Office hours are Saturday to Thursday, 9am to 5pm. Closed Friday.
Frequently asked questions in the New Administrative Capital
Do you cover R3, R7 and R8? Yes. R3, R7, R8, the Government District, the streets around the Iconic Tower and Al Masa Hotel, and the rest of the Capital are all inside the area we cover.
My villa is still being built. When should you come in? At design stage, while the structural drawings can still change. That is when the loads, the drainage, the power and the plant room can be drawn in, instead of cut in later.
Will you work with my architect and my main contractor? Yes. Our engineers answer their technical queries directly, and our dates follow the main contractor's programme.
Can you build a pool on the roof of my building? Often, once the slab, the waterproofing and the drainage have been checked with the building's engineer and the developer has given written approval for that roof.
We are developing a compound. Can we contract you for all its pools? Yes, on commercial terms. Shared pools, children's pools and lagoons get designed, built and commissioned by one team, with one programme in writing.
How long will a villa pool take? A 90-day programme for a standard residential build, written into the quotation. A rooftop, indoor or larger custom pool gets its own written programme before you sign.
How much will it cost? That depends on the site, the structure and the finish, so the price comes after a free site visit. The quote is free, written and dated.
Do you also cover Mostakbal City? Yes. It borders the Capital, and we cover it from the same office on the same terms. See our page on garden pools in Mostakbal City.
Do you build pools in Ain Sokhna too? Yes. Ain Sokhna is outside Cairo, so each job there is confirmed after a site visit. See chalet and sea-view pools in Ain Sokhna.
Do you give a warranty? On pools we build, yes, in writing: 25 years on the structure, 10 on the waterproofing, 5 on the electromechanical works. On a repair to another company's pool, the term is agreed for that job and written on the quote.
Call us about your site
For a swimming pool company Cairo developers and villa owners can bring in at drawing stage, call or WhatsApp +20 102 626 1818 and tell us the district and how far the building has got. Or email info@arcgroup-eg.com and we will book the free site visit.
Al Rowad Constructions & Pool Services, 15 El-Lewaa Mahmoud Samy Basha, Al Mintaqah as Sādisah, Nasr City, Cairo Governorate 10506, Egypt.