Dr. Ahmed El-Kased, President of Menoufia University, chaired the session of the University Facilities Committee for the month of February 2025 in the presence of Dr. Sobhi Sharaf, Vice President of the University for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs, Dr. Ekramy Gamal, Secretary-General of the University, Souad Bayoumi, Head of the Central Administration of the University President's Office, Dr. Ayman Abdel Hamid, Engineering Advisor to the President of the University, Director of the Engineering Consulting Center, members of the committee, deans of the concerned faculties, heads of the Civil and Architectural Engineering Departments at the Faculty of Engineering, and General Managers of Engineering Affairs, Maintenance, Financial and Legal Affairs, Planning, Follow-up and Needs.
Dr. Ahmed El-Kased began the meeting by congratulating the members of the committee, university staff and students on the occasion of the approaching celebration of the night of the middle of Shaaban and the approaching holy month of Ramadan.
Dr. Ahmed El-Kased pointed out that the committee reviewed the report of the General Administration of Engineering Affairs on the executive status of the projects currently being implemented and included in the university plan, the percentage of completion of each project, and its financial status. The committee also reviewed the executive status of maintenance work in the colleges and various university units, as well as replacement, development, and restoration work.
Dr. Ahmed El-Kased praised the teamwork to advance the university, stressing the need to combine efforts and develop a clear plan and vision to quickly complete projects and optimally utilize the university's resources, and establish a mechanism for follow-up and implementation that ensures achieving satisfactory results with the highest quality and managing projects in an institutional manner. To control performance and speed up completion, he pointed out his keenness to hold meetings with those in charge of the university's projects and the implementing companies to complete the required credits and quickly complete the implementation of the projects.
During the meeting, the university president discussed with the committee members the executive position of the projects being implemented or proposed, including completing the elevation of the entrance to the Faculty of Medicine and the general site, and the elevation of the emergency hospital, completing the building of the Faculty of Dentistry and its outpatient clinics, the central library at the Faculty of Pharmacy and the auditoriums, the auditorium buildings in some faculties and the multi-purpose halls building at the Education Department, and maintaining the Technical Institute for Nursing. Developing the university's administrative building and developing the general site of the theoretical complex.
The envoy added that the committee approved the minutes of the previous facilities committee, and completed the documents of the operations, technical specifications and estimates for the work of the Sadat Land walls and the Center for the Challenged with Disabilities at the Faculty of Arts, the laboratories of the sixth and seventh floors at the Faculty of Pharmacy, and installing two elevators for the Faculty of Medicine, and tanks and pumps at the Technical Institute in Manshiyat Sultan, in addition to presenting the conditions booklet for the expansion building of the Oncology Institute.
The committee also discussed new projects, including the development of university hospitals and the inclusion of the fire project for the Faculty of Physical Education and Auditorium 105 at the Faculty of Specific Education in Ashmoun.