115,000 square meters of stone, marble and granite were used in the campus construction — the most stone used in a single project since the Pyramids of Giza.
80% of the external walls are made of sandstone, mostly sourced from Upper Egypt, keeping rooms cool during the day and warm at night.
An international team of architects, seven firms from three countries, designed AUC New Cairo, ranked as the top green campus in Africa.
In 2009, AUC received a special award from the Urban Land Institute for the design and construction of its New Cairo campus.
Thanks to the generosity of our New Cairo campus supporters, whose names can be found all around campus.
$1M+
Mr. J. Dinsmore Adams, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Moataz Al Alfi
Dr. Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor Hon LHD
Dr. Hamza Bahey El Din Alkholi
H.H. Sheikh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohammed Al-Qasimi Hon LHD
Mr. Theodore S. Bacon, Jr.*
Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Bartlett
Dr. Sarwat Sabet Bassily*
H.R.H. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Hon LHD
Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Cashin
Paul I. and Charlotte P. Corddry
Mr. Miner D. Crary, Jr. and Mrs. Mary Crary*
Mrs. Elizabeth S. Driscoll
Mr. Mohamed Shafik Gabr ‘73
Mr. Paul B. Hannon Hon LHD
Dr. and Mrs. Elias K. Hebeka
Dr. and Mrs. Ahmed M. Hassanein Heikal
Mr. Yousef Abdul Latif Jameel ‘68, Hon LHD
Mrs. Suad Al-Husseini Juffali Hon LHD
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce L. Ludwig
H.E. Mohamed Loutfy Mansour
Mr. Hatem Niazi Mostafa* and Mrs. Janet Mostafa
Mr. Youssef Ayyad Nabih*
Sheikh Mohammed Wajih Hassan Sharbatly ‘89
$500K+
Sheikh Faisal Kamal Adham
Mrs. Mary Cross*
Mr. Hassan ‘73 and Mrs. Jill Dana
$250K+
Mr. Ala M. Al Khawaja
Dr. Barbara Brown and Dr. Steven C. Ward
Professor Gail M. Gerhart
Mr. Abdallah S. Jum’ah ‘65
Mr. David Rockefeller Hon LHD*
Mr. Khaled Shaheen
Mrs. Linda Joan Vester Greenberg ‘89
$100K+
Arab African International Bank
Mrs. Sarah Bacon*
Commercial International Bank (Egypt)
Mr. and Mrs. Elias Henry Debbas ‘68
Mr. William L. Driscoll and Dr. Lisa M. Hoffman
Abla Leheta and Souhail El-Taji El-Farouki ‘68
Dr. and Mrs. Adel El-Labban ‘77 ‘80
Mr. Hesham Helal El Sewedy ‘88
Sted and Robin Garber
Dr. John D. Gerhart Hon LHD*
Dr. Eng. Mamdouh Mostafa Hamza
Mr. Charles J. Hedlund Hon LHD*
Henkel-Egypt
Mr. B. Boyd and Mrs. Mary Kay Hight
Mr. Lawrence H. Hyde*
Fritz and Lee Link
Mrs. Marion M. Lloyd*
PepsiCo International – Egypt
Dr. Mohamed Eloui Taymour*
The Starr Foundation
Dr. Sadek ‘87 and Mrs. Suzy Wahba
Anonymous
$50K+
Alcatel – Lucent Egypt
Sheikh Abdulaziz AlSulaiman
Mr. David D. Arnold and Mrs. Sherry Lee Arnold
AUC Parents Association
Mr. Kenneth H. Bacon* and Mrs. Dorothy Bacon*
Mrs. Molly and Dr. Thomas Bartlett Hon LHD
Mr. Hussein Choucri
Peggy Driscoll and Rob Keeley
Egyptian Gulf Bank (EGBANK)
Eng. Emad Zaki El Sewedy ‘88
Mrs. Miriam Thorne Gilpatric*
Mrs. Inaam Bahgat Hassanein ‘84, ‘91
Dr. Ibrahim Abdel Aziz Hegazy ‘84, ‘87
Ms. Elizabeth D. Hlavka and Mr. Edwin J. Hlavka
Ms. Edith Crary Howe*
Mr. Tarek Mohamed Ismail
ITWorx
Arthur and Susan Lindenauer
Link Development
Luz and William MacArthur
Mr. Seif Allah Hamdy Mostafa ‘94
Mrs. Louise W. Moore Pine*
Red Bull Egypt for Import & Export
Dr. Ahmed Hassan Said ‘85
Mr. Mahmoud Abdel Wahab Saleh*
Mr. Ahmed Mamdouh Sharafeldin ‘91
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Thomason
Mr. and Mrs. John Elting Treat*
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Urquhart, Sr.*
Visa International (Egypt)
The Honorable Frank G. Wisner
Anonymous
$25K+
Sheikh Ahmed Abdullatif ‘57
James D. and Mary Claire Bond
Mrs. Rania Ismail ‘95 and Mr. Ahmed Ismail ‘97
Mrs. Margaret R. King*
Reverend Richard A. Lundy SP
Mrs. Nadia Niazi Mostafa
Rob and Teresa Oden
$10K+
Mr. and Mrs. Anis Aclimandos
Mrs. Elisabeth Barahim
Kate, Victor and Jack Boyd
Mr. Alexander L. Darling
Mr. Mohamed A. Fattah El Masry
Dr. Hussein and Mrs. Kim El-Sharkawy
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Gajewski
Mr. and Mrs. Mounir Ghabbour
Mrs. Hoda Mohamed Hamed ‘66, ‘73
Ms. Deming P. Holleran
Mrs. Mona Ismail Mostafa Ismail ‘68, ‘79
Mr. Mohamed Saddik Leheta*
William Quandt
Mr. and Mrs. Fathi Qasem Samarah
Mr. Christopher T. Seaver ‘80
H.E. Ambassador Samir S. Shihabi ‘47, Hon LHD*
Mrs. Benjamin W. Thoron*
*Deceased
Hon LHD Honorary Degree
SP Special Program Alumni
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