CUBIT — Design & Build Cairo · Gulf — 2026
CUBIT

Design · Make · Build

Design-led turnkey delivery for Egypt's high-end built environment.

A three-way joint venture

1 cubit = 523 mm — the oldest standard for building

The proposition

Egypt is building at international scale.
Too little of it is delivered to international standard.

Gulf capital and branded operators are importing a new standard of finish, and a buyer who has lived in Dubai, London and Riyadh already knows what good looks like. CUBIT closes the gap — one accountable partner from concept design to delivery: designed to a world-class standard, produced to specification, built locally, under one contract.

World-class design

UK design leadership on every brief — concept to bespoke detail — a world-class pedigree the project can be marketed on.

Local make & build

Joinery, stone, metalwork and finishes produced to specification, then built on site. Global quality, delivered in Egypt.

Turnkey accountability

One contract, one point of responsibility, from first sketch to the handover of the key.

The gap

Demand has gone global.
Delivery is still fragmented.

Design and build live apart

The architect hands over; a separate contractor interprets. Intent is lost in translation between drawing and site.

Value-engineering erodes the vision

Without the designer holding the line, premium detailing is the first casualty of the build budget.

A recognised finishing-quality gap

Local scale and cost are world-class; the consistency of high-end finishes too often is not.

No single point of accountability

Clients coordinate designers, contractors and suppliers themselves — and absorb the risk when they clash.

The solution

One partner. One contract.
From the first sketch to the turn of the key.

CUBIT is a vertically integrated design–make–build partner. The studio that designs your project is the same venture that produces its finishes to specification and constructs it on site — so the standard set on day one is the standard handed over.

Vision held to handover

The designer never leaves the table — intent is protected through every value-engineering decision.

One accountable partner

A single contract and a single point of responsibility for design, cost, programme and quality.

Quality, independently assured

An independent, built-in QA process holds the standard at every stage — and three still-independent firms, each guarding its own reputation, keep design quality honest.

Faster, de-risked delivery

Design, production and build run as one programme — fewer clashes, fewer surprises, tighter timelines.

The partnership

Three engines of one delivery.

Design, production and construction — three independent firms, each with a reputation to protect, held together under one accountable venture.

Arrival courtyards in stone and shadow — layered thresholds drawn to be built.
01The design engine PARTNER 01 · STUDIO S+RK

Design

Studio S+RK

International design pedigree and leadership — concept to bespoke detail, to global standards, with design guardianship and brand narrative.

  • Concept & direction
  • Bespoke detailing
  • Design guardianship
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An Aswan granite quarry face with ancient tool marks and cut blocks in raking light — stone at its source.
02The production engine PARTNER 02 · NASROC

Make

NASROC Global Egypt

Architectural production, managed end-to-end — joinery, stone, metalwork and finishes, made to specification, to global quality.

  • Joinery & stone
  • Metalwork & finishes
  • To specification
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A Gulf skyline under construction — a forest of tower cranes over concrete structural frames.
03The construction engine PARTNER 03 · SINCE 1997

Build

Capital for Contracting

Egyptian general contracting since 1997 — construction, delivery and site execution, with land, real-estate, materials and cost control.

  • Since 1997
  • Site execution
  • Cost control in EGP
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Track record

A credential list, not a catalogue.

CUBIT is new. The people are not. Five entries, uniformly stated — the metadata separates unbuilt design from delivered construction, because the honesty is the argument. Every entry: firm · role · status · year.

  • Aerial view at dawn of the Nova Benghazi masterplan, a sculpted tower rising from a grid of courtyard blocks along the coast.

    Studio S+RK · Architect · Design proposal · 2025

    Nova Benghazi

    A coastal masterplan: a landmark tower held in a low-rise grid of courtyard blocks, a civic spine of mosque, museum and market running to the sea.

  • Evening view of the Murooj residential quarter, lit apartment blocks with screened facades around a landscaped water garden.

    Studio S+RK · Architect · Design proposal · 2025

    Murooj

    A residential quarter organised around a water garden — screened facades, deep balconies, a shaded pedestrian spine between the blocks.

  • The compound street: screened stone villas either side of a shaded lane, the Riyadh skyline framed at its end.

    Studio S+RK · Architect · Design proposal · 2025

    HOF Compound

    A high-end residential compound in the suburbs of Riyadh — stone and screened villas gathered around shared courts and pools, drawn as one suburban fabric.

  • The Stone Park workplace interior at dusk — open-plan desks, glazed meeting rooms and city views.

    Studio S+RK · Architect · Design proposal · 2025

    Stone Park

    An office building on a dense Cairo corner — and a workplace interior to match: exposed soffits, daylit desks and a rough-stone lobby wall carrying the building’s name.

  • A white townhouse facade with triangular perforated screen panels, a landscaped pool spine and towers under construction beyond.

    NASROC Global Egypt · Production & finishing · Completed · 2023

    Screened Townhouses

    Perforated screen facades across a townhouse row — triangular-lattice panels fabricated and installed to specification in crisp white render, shading doors, stairs and windows. The detail, held from drawing to site.

  • Families in a palm-lined courtyard with a fountain, surrounded by banded masonry apartment blocks.

    Capital for Contracting · Main contractor · Completed · 2021

    Residential Quarter

    A delivered residential quarter — banded masonry apartment blocks around a palm-shaded court with fountain and gardens, handed over and lived in. Proof of programme at neighbourhood scale.

Design to a world standard.
Built — and made — in Egypt.

A joint venture of Studio S+RK, NASROC Global Egypt and Capital for Contracting.

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