Construction firm finds success against all odds

Office tower complex in Egyptian capital helps company gain traction

Summers in Egypt can be unusually warm and last July was no exception. As the temperatures soared to 70 degrees Celsius, the massive construction site of Egypt's new administrative capital was almost heated up like a sauna.

But Zhang Yiqing did not appear to be much affected by the rising temperatures. As the project manager of China State Construction First Building (Group) Co Ltd, the company responsible for building the C07 and C08 office tower in the Central Business District of Cairo, the Egyptian capital, he had much bigger problems to worry about.