Steel fixers tying rebar on a column cage

01 / About

Twenty-eight years. Same standard.

02 / The story

Founded Dhaka, 1998

Started by two site engineers who were tired of excuses.

In 1998, Rafiq Karim and Selina Ahmed left a large contractor to run one site properly. The first job was a 600 m² warehouse in Savar. The client got a weekly programme, a daily photo log and a handover with zero defects. He has since given us eleven more jobs.

The company grew the way buildings do: one level at a time. Concrete crews in 2001. A steel yard in 2006. MEP teams in 2011. A fleet of earthmoving plant in 2015. Today we employ 2,400 people directly and sub-let as little as possible.

We still refuse the two things that ruin construction: hidden programmes and change-order games. Every client gets the live schedule. Every price is open-book. Every variation is priced from the same rates as the contract.

It is not a complicated philosophy. It is just rare.

03 / How we work

Four rules.
No exceptions.

01
Self-perform

Concrete, steel and MEP by our own crews. Fewer interfaces, fewer surprises, one accountable party.
02
Open book

Quantities you can check, rates you can audit and a variation policy written into the contract.
03
Engineer on site

A CICL engineer on every job every day, with authority to stop work and to spend money to keep the programme.
04
Zero harm

Anyone can stop the job. Nobody is penalised for it. Two million hours without a lost-time incident says it works.