The front page of Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper highlighted the news that the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Building at Ain Shams University had won the Design Excellence Award as the first building in the Arab Republic of Egypt to receive this award.

The EDGE certificate - "which stands for Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiency" - is one of the most important international certificates for the classification of green buildings, as it was developed by the International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, to address the environmental footprint of the built environment