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Could ‘Hand Over’ Be Egypt’s Next Environmentally Sustainable Urban Planning Solution?

December 9, 2018
Abu Gaddan community. Photo credit: Hand Over

Founded by construction engineer Radwa Rostom officially in 2016, Hand Over is a social enterprise based in Cairo. The enterprise designs and builds spaces out of natural and locally sourced material. The material used for construction is both cost-effective and environment friendly rendering its end products, houses and buildings, a sustainable solution to the real estate market’s endless needs. Hand Over revolutionizes the construction industry by introducing a durable, environment friendly and cost effective solution to construction. Egypt’s construction industry is notorious for its rigidity when in comes to creativity and innovation. Hand Over is utilizing two discipline, environmental sustainability and construction, in one framework to bring a new and fresh flavor to the market and industry as a whole. “When I graduated with a degree in construction engineering, I decided to see what is happening around me,” Rostom starts,”I was always interested in environmental solutions but I wasn’t ready to leave the construction sector completely. Instead, I started learning about other solutions people are doing across the world.” The 30-year-old construction engineer noticed that solution-providers are always targeting the same upper-class urbanized segment in Egypt’s society.  After spotting the…


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