The Egyptian Company for Construction Development operates in the construction business in Egypt and the Middle East. The company engages in establishing, operating, and managing of desalination plants, refining drinking water, distribution networks, and transmission lines; and sewage, industrial, and purification plants. It also establishes, builds, and rents real estate of all levels and types, as well as villages, tourist facilities and shops, residential cities, and administrative camps. In addition, the company is involved in the buying, dividing, supplying, and selling of lands and building; and buying, reclamation, partition, management, and sale of agricultural and desert land. Further, the company offers hydraulic propulsion forces in raising ceilings, sliding formwork, heavy lifting and lowering, executing tunnels and pipe runners, and other engineering solutions; and infrastructures related to drinking water, sewage, electricity, and roads. The company was formerly known as Lifat Slab Misr. The Egyptian Company for Construction Development was founded in 1978 and is based in Heliopolis, Egypt.